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Robert McNamara (I) (1916–2009)

Robert S. McNamara was born in San Francisco, California on June 9, 1916. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1937 with a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Philosophy. He went on to earn a Masters degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in 1939 and had a job of teacher here from 1940 to 1943... See full bio »

Born:

Robert Strange McNamara
in San Francisco, California, USA

Died:

(age 93) in Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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2010 Countdown to Zero (documentary)
Himself
 
2005 The Daily Politics (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 30 June 2005 (2005) … Himself
 
2005 Jonathan Dimbleby (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 19 June 2005 (2005) … Himself
 
2005 HARDtalk (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 14 June 2005 (2005) … Himself
 
2004 No Fighting in the War Room or Dr. Strangelove and the Nuclear Threat (video documentary short)
Himself
 
2004 The Doomsday Clock (TV movie)
Himself - Secretary of Defense - Kennedy and Johnson administrations
 
2003 JFK: A Presidency Revealed (TV documentary)
Himself (also archive footage)
 
2003 The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (documentary)
Himself
 
2001 Sworn to Secrecy: Secrets of War (TV series)
Himself - U.S. Secretery of Defence, 1961-1968
– Cold War: The Kennedy Years (2001) … Himself - U.S. Secretery of Defence, 1961-1968
– Cold War: Cuba's Communist Revolution … Himself - U.S. Secretery of Defence, 1961-1968
 
2001 Sabine Christiansen (TV series)
– Die Mauer ist weg! Es lebe die Mauer? (2001)
 
2001 America's Lost Bombs: The True Story of Broken Arrows (TV documentary)
Himself (as Robert S. McNamara)
 
1999 The Vietnam War: A Descent Into Hell (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1998 Cold War (TV mini-series documentary)
Himself
– Cuba (1998) … Himself
– Good Guys, Bad Guys (1998) … Himself
– M.A.D. (1998) … Himself (also archive footage)
– Sputnik (1998) … Himself
– The Wall (1998) … Himself (also archive footage)
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1992 Timewatch (TV series documentary)
Himself
– The Cuban Missile Crisis: Eyeball to Eyeball (1992) … Himself
– The Cuban Missile Crisis: Defying Uncle Sam (1992) … Himself
 
1988 JFK Remembered (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1983 Vietnam: A Television History (TV series documentary)
Himself
– LBJ Goes to War: 1964-1965 (1983) … Himself
 
1965 Why Vietnam? (documentary)
Himself
 
1964 World in Action (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Vietnam (1964) … Himself
 
1963 CBS Reports (TV series documentary)
Himself-Interviewee
– McNamara and the Pentagon (1963) … Himself-Interviewee
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (28 titles)
2011 The Lost Kennedy Home Movies (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2011 Us Welcome, Us Go Home (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2011 In My Lifetime: A Presentation of the Nuclear World Project (documentary)
Himself - US Secretary of Defense 1961-1968
 
2010 Hubert H Humphrey: The Art of the Possible (TV documentary)
Himself - United States Secretary of Defense
 
2009 The Kennedy Assassination: 24 Hours After (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2009 Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech (documentary)
Himself - U.S. secretary of defense (uncredited)
 
2008 70's Fever (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2008 Superpower (documentary)
Himself
 
2007 War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (documentary)
Himself
 
2002 Die Nervenprobe - Kuba-Krise '62 (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2002 USS Liberty: Dead in the Water (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2001 Roots of the Cuban Missile Crisis (video documentary)
Himself
 
1997 Unseen Images: The Vietnam War (TV mini-series documentary)
Himself - US Secretary of Defense (1997)
 
1995 Nixon
Himself - Laughing (uncredited)
 
1995 The Speeches of Robert F. Kennedy (video)
Himself - Pallbearer for RFK
 
1992 Pandora's Box (TV mini-series documentary)
 
1991 JFK
Himself - in Vietnam (uncredited)
 
1991 The American Experience (TV series documentary)
 
1988 The 1960's: Music, Memories & Milestones (video documentary)
Himself (reviews mechanized troops with JFK)
 
1983 Vietnam: A Television History (TV series documentary)
 
1979 The War at Home (documentary)
Himself - Speech on Hanoi Bombing (uncredited)
 
1973 Executive Action
Himself - Listens to Test Ban Speech (uncredited)
 
1969 I due Kennedy (documentary)
Himself
 
1968 In the Year of the Pig (documentary)
Himself - Secretary of Defense, on Tonkin Gulf Incident (uncredited)
 
1967 Death on a Rainy Day
Himself - 1960-1968 Secretary of Defense (uncredited)
 
1966 NBC White Paper (TV series documentary)
 
1965 A Trip Down Memory Lane (documentary short)
Himself - with Maxwell Taylor
 
1964 Four Days in November (documentary)
Himself
 

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Personal Details

Other Works:

(2000) Book (co-author): "Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy". See more »

Publicity Listings:

1 Biographical Movie  | 5 Articles  | 1 Magazine Cover Photo  | See more »

Alternate Names:

Robert S. McNamara
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Did You Know?

Personal Quote:

Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated. See more »

Trivia:

Graduated from Piedmont High School in Piedmont, CA, with a straight "A" average in 1933. See more »

Star Sign:

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