Overview - The Shawshank Redemption

Overview

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.

Cast

• Name: Tim Robbins

  Character: Andy Dufresne

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• Name: Morgan Freeman

  Character: Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding

  Popularity: 7.4408

  

• Name: Bob Gunton

  Character: Warden Norton

  Popularity: 2.4081

  

• Name: William Sadler

  Character: Heywood

  Popularity: 1.4451

  

• Name: Clancy Brown

  Character: Captain Byron T. Hadley

  Popularity: 3.5752

  

• Name: Gil Bellows

  Character: Tommy

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• Name: James Whitmore

  Character: Brooks Hatlen

  Popularity: 0.9567

  

• Name: Mark Rolston

  Character: Bogs Diamond

  Popularity: 1.0028