---
title: 'Meteor (1979)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Ronald Neame'
released: '1979-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 108
certification: 'PG'
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Action'
  - 'Adventure'
  - 'Science Fiction'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/meteor-1979'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079550/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Meteor (1979)

1979 · PG · 108 min · Drama, Action, Adventure, Science Fiction · United States


## Synopsis

Meteor is a 1979 American science fiction disaster film directed by Ronald Neame and starring Sean Connery and Natalie Wood. The film's premise, which follows a group of scientists struggling with Cold War politics after an asteroid is detected to be on a collision course with Earth, was inspired by a 1967 MIT report, Project Icarus. The screenplay was written by Oscar winner Edmund H. North and Stanley Mann.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Ronald Neame](https://cinepixo.com/people/ronald-neame)
- **Screenplay:** [Edmund H. North](https://cinepixo.com/people/edmund-h-north)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Laurence Rosenthal](https://cinepixo.com/people/laurence-rosenthal)
- **Producer:** [Samuel Z. Arkoff](https://cinepixo.com/people/samuel-z-arkoff), [Run Run Shaw](https://cinepixo.com/people/run-run-shaw), [Sandy Howard](https://cinepixo.com/people/sandy-howard), [Gabriel Katzka](https://cinepixo.com/people/gabriel-katzka)
- **Director of Photography:** [Paul Lohmann](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-lohmann)
- **Editor:** [Carl Kress](https://cinepixo.com/people/carl-kress)

## Cast

- [Henry Fonda](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-fonda)
- [Michael Zaslow](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-zaslow)
- [Sean Connery](https://cinepixo.com/people/sean-connery) as Dr. Paul Bradley
- [Martin Landau](https://cinepixo.com/people/martin-landau)
- [Bibi Besch](https://cinepixo.com/people/bibi-besch)
- [Joseph Campanella](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-campanella)
- [Natalie Wood](https://cinepixo.com/people/natalie-wood)
- [Richard Dysart](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-dysart)
- [Trevor Howard](https://cinepixo.com/people/trevor-howard)
- [Allen Williams](https://cinepixo.com/people/allen-williams)
- [Karl Malden](https://cinepixo.com/people/karl-malden)
- [Brian Keith](https://cinepixo.com/people/brian-keith)
- [Katherine Jean De Hetre](https://cinepixo.com/people/katherine-jean-de-hetre)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/meteor-1979
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