Dan Rather
Birthday
1931/10/31 (93 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Wharton, Texas, USA
Also know as
Dan Irvin Rather Jr.
Biography
Daniel Irvin Rather Jr. (born October 31, 1931) is an American journalist, commentator, and former national evening news anchor. He began his career in Texas, becoming a national name after his reporting saved thousands of lives during Hurricane Carla in September 1961. Rather spontaneously created the first radar weather report by overlaying a transparent map over a radar image of Hurricane Carla. In his first national broadcast, he helped initiate the successful evacuation of 350,000 people. H...Read more
Acting
(2009) The Most Dangerous Man in America
as Self - Reporter (archive footage)
(2004) WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception
as Self
(1995) Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz
as Self
(2006) This Film Is Not Yet Rated
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2023) Rather
as Self - Journalist
(2023) Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life
as Self
(2019) Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation
as Self
(2007) Charlie Wilson's War
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2007) Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed
as Self
(2018) Howard
as Self (archive footage)
(2014) All About Ann: Governor Richards of the Lone Star State
as Self
(2013) JFK: One PM Central Standard Time
as Self
(2013) Newsflash: Stories That Stopped the World
as Self
(2010) The War You Don't See
as ---
(2019) Mike Wallace Is Here
as Self (archive footage)
(2012) Ghosts of Ole Miss
as Himself
(2015) The Draft
as Self
(2004) Barbecue: A Texas Love Story
as Self
(2015) Traficant: The Congressman of Crimetown
as Self (archive footage)
(2021) Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
as Self (archive footage)
(2024) Frontline: Biden's Decision
as Self (archive footage)
(2014) Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
as Self (archive footage)
(1992) Commercial Entertainment Product
as Self (archive footage)
(2016) Harry Benson: Shoot First
as Self
(2019) Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins
as Self
(2016) Lombardi's Redskins
as Narrator
(2007) Everything's Cool
as Self (archive footage)
(2013) The Assassination of President Kennedy
as Self
(2009) Mile High: How to Win... and Lose... the White House
as Self - Interviewee
(2011) Gloria: In Her Own Words
as Self (archive footage)
(2004) Fahrenheit 9/11
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2003) Journalists: Killed in the Line of Duty
as Narrator (voice)
(2022) Lakota Nation vs. United States
as Self (archive footage)
(1988) Powaqqatsi
as (archive footage)
(1989) The Simpsons
as Dan Rather (voice)
(1996) The Daily Show
as Self
(1992) The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
as Self
(2007) Dirty Sexy Money
as ---
(1991) Charlie Rose
as Self (CBS News)
(2015) StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
as Self
(2018) The Top Ten Revealed
as Self
(2006) Dan Rather Reports
as Self
(2018) Explained
as Self (archive footage)
(2016) Chelsea
as Self
(2014) The Sixties
as Self
(2015) The Seventies
as Self
(2013) The Big Interview With Dan Rather
as Self
(2017) The Nineties
as Self
(2014) The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
(2009) Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
(2022) Cuomo
as Self - Guest
(1963) CBS Evening News
as Self - Anchor
(2003) Real Time with Bill Maher
as Self
(1998) AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
as Self
(2009) 30 for 30
as (archive footage)
(1961) The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
(2024) Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World?
as Self (archive footage)
(1988) American Experience
as Self (archive footage)
(1993) Late Show with David Letterman
as ---