Walter Cronkite
Birthday
1916/11/04
Day of death
2009/07/17 (92 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
St. Joseph, Missouri, USA
Also know as
Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr.
Biography
Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years (1962–81). During the heyday of CBS News in the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" after being so named in an opinion poll. Although he reported many events from 1937 to 1981, including bombing in World War II, the Nuremberg trials, combat in the Vietnam War, the death of President John F. Kennedy,...Read more
Acting
(1968) The Movie Orgy
as Self (archive footage)
(2000) Fail Safe
as Self - Host
(2002) Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
as Self (voice)
(2019) I Am Richard Pryor
as Self - Anchorman (archive footage)
(1985) The Dream Is Alive
as Narrator
(2006) This Film Is Not Yet Rated
as Self - 1968 TV Newscaster (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2014) The Man Who Saved the World
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(2014) Led Zeppelin Played Here
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(1993) We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
as Captain Neweyes (voice)
(2021) Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
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(1998) Silicon Valley: A 100 Year Renaissance
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(2008) Milk
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(2022) The Janes
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(2007) Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater
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(1989) 50 Years of Television: A Golden Celebration
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(2020) I Am Jackie O
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(2006) Out of the Shadows: The Man Who Was Deep Throat
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(2006) Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire
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(1993) As it Happened: The Killing of Kennedy
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(2018) Reversing Roe
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(2008) Chicago 10
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(2005) A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin
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(2007) The Pixar Story
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(2017) The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee
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(1988) Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration
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(1981) Walt Disney: One Man's Dream
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(2013) JFK: One PM Central Standard Time
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(2023) JFK: 24 Hours That Changed the World
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(2006) The U.S. vs. John Lennon
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(2022) The Martha Mitchell Effect
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(1990) Night of 100 Stars III
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(2013) Newsflash: Stories That Stopped the World
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(2003) Silent Night, Holy Night with Walter Cronkite
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(2019) Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
as Self - Anchorman (archive footage)
(1980) A Private Battle
as Self
(2003) JFK II: The Bush Connection
as Self - Anchor, CBS News (voice) (archive sound)
(1976) All the President's Men
as Self (archive sound) (uncredited)
(2005) Edward R. Murrow - The McCarthy Years
as Host
(2019) Apollo: The Forgotten Films
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(2022) Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
as Self (voice) (archive sound)
(2020) Killing John F. Kennedy
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(2021) Untold: Caitlyn Jenner
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(1965) The Making of an Underground Film
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(1999) Television: The First Fifty Years
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(2004) Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy
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(1982) Why was Cairo Calm
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(1988) Who Shot President Kennedy?
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(2002) Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story
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(1988) An Empire of Reason
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(2008) Man on the Moon with Walter Cronkite
as Reporter
(1997) 4 Little Girls
as Self - Special Correspondent CBS News
(2002) S.O.S. Planet
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(2021) Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
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(1989) Back to Neverland
as Walter Cronkite
(1989) John F. Kennedy and the Memory of a Nation
as Self - Host
(1993) Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
as Self - CBS News
(2003) Amateur Radio Today
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(2017) The Reagan Show
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(2014) Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
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(2004) Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power
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Man on the Moon: The Epic Journey of Apollo 11
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(1958) The Incredible Turk
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(2019) Apollo 11
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(2004) America's Choir: The Story of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
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(2018) Studio 54
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(1990) Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music
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(2018) Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
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(2019) Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
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(2019) Apollo: Missions to the Moon
as Self - CBS News (archive footage)
(2006) The Making of 'Network'
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(2006) Return to Flight HD: The Inside Story
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(2019) Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
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(2001) O Holy Night: Christmas At Concordia
as Narrator
(1974) New England Our Way
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(1951) The Price of Liberty
as Narrator(voice)
(2008) SS United States: Lady in Waiting
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(2013) SS United States: Made in America
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(2017) Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
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(2006) The Nuremberg Trials
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(1994) The Secret of the Wild Child
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(2000) Thirteen Days
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(2017) Dateline: Saigon
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(2019) Mike Wallace Is Here
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(2020) The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden
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(2013) Valentino's Ghost
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(2020) The Real Right Stuff
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(2008) Legacy of War
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(2012) Ethel
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(2006) Apollo 13: The Inside Story
as Self - CBS Evening News Anchorman
(1996) All Power to the People!
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(2011) Gloria: In Her Own Words
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(1983) I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind
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(2003) Journalists: Killed in the Line of Duty
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(1992) Titanic: Treasure of the Deep
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(2024) Fly Me to the Moon
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(2024) Apollo 13: Survival
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(1996) E! True Hollywood Story
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(1991) Charlie Rose
as Self (Charlie Rose archive footage 12/27/96)
(1993) Late Night with Conan O'Brien
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(1952) Two for the Money
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(2002) Liberty's Kids
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(1954) Climax!
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(1953) You Are There
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(1957) The Twentieth Century
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(1956) The Steve Allen Show
as Self - Recipient
(1970) The Mary Tyler Moore Show
as Walter Cronkite
(2014) The Sixties
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(1961) The Mike Douglas Show
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(1998) War and Civilization
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(1948) The Ed Sullivan Show
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(2000) The American President
as George Washington
(2015) The Seventies
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(1991) Dinosaur!
as Self - Host
(1969) Man on the Moon: The Epic Journey of Apollo 11
as Himself - News Anchor
(1956) Tony Awards
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(1996) The Rosie O'Donnell Show
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(1988) American Experience
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(1988) Murphy Brown
as Walter Cronkite
(2021) Fiasco
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(1963) CBS Evening News
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(1985) Vietnam War with Walter Cronkite
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(1968) The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
(1998) AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
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(2020) Whose Vote Counts, Explained
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(1971) Great Performances
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(2020) Challenger: The Final Flight
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(1944) Golden Globe Awards
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(1988) American Experience
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(1974) Dinah!
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