Long Day's Journey Into Night is a 1973 television film

1973 in film

The year 1973 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx divorces his second wife, Barbara Blakely. Blakely would later marry actor/singer Frank Sinatra....

 adaptation of the Eugene O'Neill

Eugene O'Neill

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into American drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish...

 play

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Long Day's Journey Into Night is a 1956 drama in four acts written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. The play is widely considered to be his masterwork...

. It was directed by Michael Blakemore

Michael Blakemore

Michael Howell Blakemore OBE is an Australian actor, writer and theatre director. In 2000 he became the only individual to win Tony Awards for best Director of a Play and Musical in the same year for Copenhagen and Kiss Me, Kate....

 and Peter Wood

Peter Wood (director)

Peter Wood is an English award-winning theatre and film director.-External links:...

 with Cecil Clarke

Cecil Clarke

Cecil Phillip Clarke is a politician in Nova Scotia, Canada. He represented the riding of Cape Breton North in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly, from 2001 to 2011...

 as executive producer. The film is a version of Royal National Theatre

Royal National Theatre

The Royal National Theatre in London is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company...

's 1971 staging of the play, and features Laurence Olivier

Laurence Olivier

Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM was an English actor, director, and producer. He was one of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century. He married three times, to fellow actors Jill Esmond, Vivien Leigh, and Joan Plowright...

 (Tyrone), Constance Cummings

Constance Cummings

Constance Cummings, CBE was an American-born British actress, known for her work on both screen and stage.Born Constance Halverstadt in Seattle, Washington, the daughter of Dallas Vernon Halverstadt, a lawyer, and his wife, Kate Logan Cummings, a concert soprano. she began as a stage actress,...

 (Mary), Denis Quilley

Denis Quilley

Denis Clifford Quilley OBE was an English theatre, television and film actor who was long associated with the Royal National Theatre....

 (Jamie), Ronald Pickup

Ronald Pickup

-Life and career:Pickup was born in Chester, England, the son of Daisy and Eric Pickup, who was a lecturer. Pickup was educated at The King's School, Chester, trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and became an Associate Member of RADA.His television work began with an episode...

 (Edmund), and Maureen Lipman

Maureen Lipman

Maureen Diane Lipman CBE is a British film, theatre and television actress, columnist and comedienne.-Early life:Lipman was born in Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, the daughter of Maurice Julius Lipman and Zelma Pearlman. Her father was a tailor; he used to have a shop between the...

 (Cathleen).

Plot

The film follows one day in the lives of the Tyrone family, each member is troubled and has been damaged by alcohol or drugs. They have issues with each other that lead to fights and an inability to reconcile with one another.

Cast and characters

• Laurence Olivier
  Laurence Olivier
  Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM was an English actor, director, and producer. He was one of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century. He married three times, to fellow actors Jill Esmond, Vivien Leigh, and Joan Plowright...
  
   - James Tyrone, Sr.
• Constance Cummings
  Constance Cummings
  Constance Cummings, CBE was an American-born British actress, known for her work on both screen and stage.Born Constance Halverstadt in Seattle, Washington, the daughter of Dallas Vernon Halverstadt, a lawyer, and his wife, Kate Logan Cummings, a concert soprano. she began as a stage actress,...
  
    - Mary Tyrone
• Denis Quilley
  Denis Quilley
  Denis Clifford Quilley OBE was an English theatre, television and film actor who was long associated with the Royal National Theatre....
  
    - James Tyrone, Jr. ("Jamie")
• Ronald Pickup
  Ronald Pickup
  -Life and career:Pickup was born in Chester, England, the son of Daisy and Eric Pickup, who was a lecturer. Pickup was educated at The King's School, Chester, trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and became an Associate Member of RADA.His television work began with an episode...
  
    - Edmund Tyrone
• Maureen Lipman
  Maureen Lipman
  Maureen Diane Lipman CBE is a British film, theatre and television actress, columnist and comedienne.-Early life:Lipman was born in Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, the daughter of Maurice Julius Lipman and Zelma Pearlman. Her father was a tailor; he used to have a shop between the...
  
    - Cathleen

Award and nominations

• Olivier won the Emmy Award
  Emmy Award
  An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
  
   for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (1973)
• The production received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Single Program - Drama or Comedy (1973)
• Olivier was nominated for Best Actor in the British Academy Television Awards
  British Academy Television Awards
  The British Academy Television Awards are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts . They have been awarded annually since 1954, and are analogous to the Emmy Awards in the United States.-Background:...
  
  (1974)