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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

Crew

Ken Swartz

Ken Swartz

Director

Janette Gitler

Janette Gitler

Executive Producer

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Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel

19946.0 / 1051 min
Documentary

Overview

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.