Lost Wife of Robert Durst, The (Lifetime 2017, Katharine McPhee, Daniel Gillies)

Katharine McPhee (Scorpion) stars as Kathie Durst alongside Daniel Gillies (The Originals) who plays Robert Durst in the Lifetime original movie The Lost Wife of Robert Durst. Based on the book A Deadly Secret: The Strange Disappearance of Kathie Durst, by investigative journalist Matt Birkbeck.

While Robert Durst has captured the year’s headlines with his recent arrest and controversy surrounding the documentary, The Jinx, Lifetime puts the forgotten woman Kathie (McPhee) at the center in The Lost Wife of Robert Durst. Young and wide-eyed, she falls in love with charming, yet quirky real estate scion Robert Durst (Gillies), only to find their marriage turning stranger, darker and more disturbing as time passes. But when Kathie disappears in 1982, her family and friends are deeply disturbed that her disappearance isn’t taken seriously by police. While Durst is currently in jail awaiting trial for the murder of his close friend, journalist Susan Berman, the questions linger as to what really happened to Kathie. The Lost Wife of Robert Durst pulls back the curtain on the world of Robert Durst and explores what may have happened between him and Kathie.

cast
Katharine McPhee as Kathie
Daniel Gillies as Robert Durst
Jesse Hutch as Henry Luttman
John Glover as Seymour Durst
Fiona Vroom as Eleanor Schwank
Ryan Robbins as Jim
Martin Donovan as Detective Struk
Ella Cannon as Mary McCormack
Blair Penner as Douglas Durst
Kwesi Ameyaw as Edward Michaels
Kyla Wise as Gabrielle Colquitt
Aidan Kahn as Marcel
Jason Schombing as Joe Becerra
Michael Dickson as Professor
Vaughan Winmill as Bar Tender

key behind the scenes crew
Matt Birkbeck as Original Author
Yves Simoneau as Director
Bettina Gilois as Writer
Linda Berman as Executive Producer
Rudy Bednar as Executive Producer

show type
Drama, True Story, Movie of the Week,

broadcast from
Saturday 4 November 2017 at 8.00pm

network and production companies
Lifetime – Lincoln Square