Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel
- Documentary
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.
Cast
- Hank Wilson
Hank Wilson
Mr Ambassador
- Peter Wilson
Peter Wilson
reporter
- Pam Moore
Pam Moore
Narrator/reporter
- Peter Wilson
Peter Wilson
Narrator/reporter
- Val Robb
Val Robb
RN Nurse
- Carolyn Jones
Carolyn Jones
RN Nurse
- Bob Lawless
Bob Lawless
RN Nurse
- Victoria Sanabria
Victoria Sanabria
Social worker
- Tom Calvanese
Tom Calvanese
Hotel asssitant
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