

Status
Ended
Release
1961 - 1965
Seasons / Eps
4 / 132
The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as neo-Nazis, conscientious objectors, civil rights demonstrators, a schoolteacher fired for being an atheist, an author accused of pornography, and a physician charged in a mercy killing.
255 Cast Members

E.G. Marshall
Lawrence Preston
132 Episodes

Robert Reed
Kenneth Preston
132 Episodes

Polly Rowles
Helen Donaldson
24 Episodes

Ossie Davis
Nixie
1 Episodes

J.D. Cannon
D.A. Al Ashley
1 Episodes

Frank Overton
D.A. Bill Bryan
2 Episodes

Murray Hamilton
District Attorney
2 Episodes

Joan Hackett
Joan Miller
5 Episodes

William Shatner
Charles Terranova
1 Episodes

Simon Oakland
1 Episodes

Michael Strong
Dr. Sobranie
3 Episodes

Edward Binns
District Attorney Wolf
3 Episodes

Martin Sheen
Adam Novins
1 Episodes

Martin Balsam
District Attorney
2 Episodes

Sam Wanamaker
Edward Banter
1 Episodes

Tim O'Connor
Frank Evans
1 Episodes

Vincent Gardenia
George Morton
1 Episodes

Jack Gilford
David Marcus
2 Episodes

Jack Klugman
Joe Larch
3 Episodes

Val Avery
D.A. Anthony Periko
1 Episodes