Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel (1994)
1994 at the Ambassador Hotel, 55 Mason Street in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco, California. From 1978 to 1996, the hotel was managed by Hank Wilson, a San Francisco LGBT activist who made the hotel a model for harm reduction housing. 134 run-down and exhausted rooms populated by homeless men and women, sometimes even children. All of them in urgent need of care, compassion and humanity. Nobly provided by voluntarily working professional health care and social workers staff, various benefactors, volunteers, neighbors, and community contributions.
Director: Ken Swartz
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Hank Wilson as Mr Ambassador |
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Peter Wilson as reporter |
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Pam Moore as Narrator/reporter |
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Peter Wilson as Narrator/reporter |
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Val Robb as RN Nurse |
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Carolyn Jones as RN Nurse |
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Bob Lawless as RN Nurse |
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Victoria Sanabria as Social worker |
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Tom Calvanese as Hotel asssitant |
| Directing | Ken Swartz | Director |
| Production | Janette Gitler | Executive Producer |