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Edward R. Murrow (1908–1965)

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Pioneering radio and TV reporter who was the dominant figure in American broadcast journalism during its early years. His dramatic, in-person coverage of the 1938 German occupation of Austria, the 1939 German blitzkrieg against Czechoslovakia and the 10-month-long Battle of Britain, fought in the skies between 1940 and 1941... See full bio »

Born:

Egbert Roscoe Murrow
in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA

Died:

(age 57) in Pawling, New York, USA
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1959-1960 CBS Reports (TV series documentary) (producer - 3 episodes)
– Harvest of Shame (1960) (producer)
– Iran: Brittle Ally (1959) (producer)
– Biography of a Missile (1959) (producer)
 
1958-1960 Small World (TV series) (producer - 57 episodes)
– Episode #2.31 (1960) (producer)
– Episode #2.30 (1960) (producer)
– Episode #2.29 (1960) (producer)
– Episode #2.28 (1960) (producer)
– Episode #2.27 (1960) (producer)
See all 57 episodes »
 
1953-1959 Person to Person (TV series documentary) (producer - 247 episodes)
– Episode #6.40 (1959) (producer)
– Episode #6.39 (1959) (producer)
– Episode #6.38 (1959) (producer)
– Episode #6.37 (1959) (producer)
– Episode #6.36 (1959) (producer)
See all 247 episodes »
 
1959 Montgomery Speaks His Mind (producer)
 
1959 The Lost Class of '59 (producer)
 
See It Now (TV series documentary) (producer - 187 episodes, 1951-1958) (co-producer - 1 episode, 1955)
– Watch on the Ruhr (1958) (producer)
– A Conversation with Prime Minister Macmillan (1958) (producer)
– Atomic Timetable: Radiation and Fallout (1958) (producer)
– Statehood for Alaska and Hawaii? (1958) (producer)
– From Precinct to President: Some Reflections by Harry S. Truman (1958) (producer)
See all 188 episodes »
 
1957 Satchmo the Great (documentary) (co-producer)
 
1953-1956 Years of Crisis (TV series) (producer - 3 episodes)
– Calendar Year 1956 (1956) (producer)
– Calendar Year 1955 (1956) (producer)
– Calendar Year 1952 (1953) (producer)
 
1953 One Plane, One Bomb (short) (producer)
 
Show ShowEditor (3 titles)
Show ShowWriter (6 titles)
1960 CBS Reports (TV series documentary)
– Harvest of Shame (1960) (written by)
 
1959 Montgomery Speaks His Mind
 
1959 The Lost Class of '59
 
1957 Satchmo the Great (documentary) (written by)
 
1953-1955 See It Now (TV series documentary)
– Episode #4.44 (1955) (written by)
– Greece (1955) (written by)
– Dr. Ralph Bunche: The United Nations (1955) (written by)
– Subscription Television (1955) (written by)
– Report on Cigarettes and Lung Cancer, Part II (1955) (written by)
See all 67 episodes »
 
1953 One Plane, One Bomb (short) (script)
 
Show ShowMiscellaneous Crew (1 title)
1985 Kojak: The Belarus File (TV movie) (voice)
 
Show ShowActor (1 title)
1956 Around the World in Eighty Days
Prologue Narrator
 
Show ShowSelf (30 titles)
1962-1963 Howard K. Smith (TV series)
Himself - Guest
– Foreign Students View the United States (1963) … Himself - Guest
– Three Giants of Journalism: Part 2 (1962) … Himself - Guest
– Three Giants of Journalism: Part 1 (1962) … Himself - Guest
– From Concord to the Congo: America's Continuing Revolution (1962) … Himself - Guest
– The Strengths and Weaknesses of the US and Russia (1962) … Himself - Guest
 
1962 Eyewitness to History (TV series documentary)
Himself - Guest
– The 318th Bomb (1962) … Himself - Guest
 
1962 Issues and Answers (TV series)
Himself - Guest
– Episode dated 25 February 1962 (1962) … Himself - Guest
 
1961 Meet the Press (TV series)
Himself - Guest
– Episode dated 4 June 1961 (1961) … Himself - Guest
 
1959-1961 CBS Reports (TV series documentary)
Himself - Reporter
– Crossroads Africa: Pilot for a Peace Corps (1961) … Himself - Reporter
– A Real Case of Murder: People vs. Peter Manceri (1961) … Himself - Reporter
– Our Election Day Illusions: The Beat Majority (1961) … Himself - Reporter
– The Great Holiday Massacre (1960) … Himself - Reporter
– Rescue, with Yul Brynner (1960) … Himself - Reporter
See all 12 episodes »
 
1961 The Challenge of Ideas (documentary short)
Himself - Narrator
 
1950-1960 Years of Crisis (TV series)
Himself - - Moderator / Himself - Host
– Calendar Year 1960 (1960) … Himself - - Moderator
– 1949- 1959 (1958) … Himself - - Moderator
– Calendar Year 1957 (1957) … Himself - - Moderator
– Calendar Year 1956 (1956) … Himself - Host
– Calendar Year 1955 (1956) … Himself - Host
See all 10 episodes »
 
1958-1960 Small World (TV series)
Himself - - Moderator
– Episode #2.31 (1960) … Himself - - Moderator
– Episode #2.30 (1960) … Himself - - Moderator
– Episode #2.29 (1960) … Himself - - Moderator
– Episode #2.28 (1960) … Himself - - Moderator
– Episode #2.27 (1960) … Himself - - Moderator
See all 54 episodes »
 
1960 Sink the Bismarck!
Himself
 
1953-1959 Person to Person (TV series documentary)
Himself - Host / Himself - - Host / Himself
– Episode #6.40 (1959) … Himself - Host
– Episode #6.39 (1959) … Himself - - Host
– Episode #6.38 (1959) … Himself - - Host
– Episode #6.37 (1959) … Himself - - Host
– Episode #6.36 (1959) … Himself - - Host
See all 210 episodes »
 
1959 Montgomery Speaks His Mind
Himself
 
1959 The Lost Class of '59
Himself
 
1955-1958 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV series)
Himself
– Episode #12.2 (1958) … Himself
– Episode #10.15 (1956) … Himself
– Episode #9.4 (1955) … Himself
– Episode #8.21 (1955) … Himself
 
1951-1958 See It Now (TV series documentary)
Himself - - Host / Himself - Host / Anchor / …
– Watch on the Ruhr (1958) … Himself - Host/Anchor
– A Conversation with Prime Minister Macmillan (1958) … Himself - Host/Anchor
– Atomic Timetable: Radiation and Fallout (1958) … Himself - Host/Anchor
– Statehood for Alaska and Hawaii? (1958) … Himself - Host/Anchor
– From Precinct to President: Some Reflections by Harry S. Truman (1958) … Himself - Host/Anchor
See all 188 episodes »
 
1957 Studio One in Hollywood (TV series)
Himself / Narrator
– The Night America Trembled (1957) … Himself/Narrator
 
1957 Satchmo the Great (documentary)
Himself - Reporter/Host
 
1957 The Jackie Gleason Show (TV series)
Himself
– At Sixty-Five (1957) … Himself
 
1956 World in Crisis (TV movie)
Himself
 
1956 Miracle in Java
Himself - Narrator
 
1954 Producers' Showcase (TV series)
Himself
– Dateline (1954) … Himself
 
1954 Resources for Freedom (TV movie)
Himself - - Narrator
 
1953 The Paul Winchell Show (TV series)
Himself
– Episode #4.16 (1953) … Himself
 
1953 One Plane, One Bomb (short)
Himself - Narrator
 
1953 The Ford 50th Anniversary Show (TV movie)
Himself
 
1952 What's My Line? (TV series)
Himself - Mystery Guest
– Episode dated 7 December 1952 (1952) … Himself - Mystery Guest
 
1951 Survival Under Atomic Attack (documentary short)
Narrator (voice)
 
1947 Is Everybody Listening? (documentary short)
Newscaster
 
1944 The Eighty Days
Himself - Commentary
 
1942 Dover (documentary short)
 
1941 The Heart of Britain (documentary)
Himself - Commentary
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (27 titles)
2012 Ethel (documentary)
Himself
 
2011 The Real American: Joe McCarthy (documentary)
Himself (uncredited)
 
2010 The Naked Archaeologist (TV series)
 
2010 Deconstructing Dad: The Music, Machines and Mystery of Raymond Scott (documentary)
Himself
 
2009 Huxley on Huxley (documentary)
Himself
 
1990-2009 American Masters (TV series documentary)
 
2007 True Bond (TV documentary)
Himself (archive sound) (as Edward Murrow) (as Voice of Edward R. Murrow - London 1941)
 
2007 Brando (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2005 The American Experience (TV series documentary)
 
2002 The Kid Stays in the Picture (documentary)
Himself
 
2001 Roots of the Cuban Missile Crisis (video documentary)
Himself
 
2001 Jazz
Himself (interviews Duke Ellington) (uncredited)
 
1999 The Century: America's Time
Himself ("Civilians at War, 1941-1945")
 
1999 Jonas Salk: Personally Speaking (documentary short)
Himself - Interviews Jonas Salk (uncredited)
 
1999 Modern Marvels (TV series documentary)
 
1998 Murphy Brown (TV series)
 
1998 We Were There: CBS News at 50 (TV special)
Himself
 
1997 Cronkite Remembers
Himself (signing off his television program) (uncredited)
 
1993 Edward R. Murrow: The Best of 'Person to Person' (video)
Himself
 
1990 This Reporter (TV mini-series documentary)
Himself
 
1989 The Nazis: Blitzkrieg (video documentary)
Himself
 
1987 Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend (documentary)
Himself - Television Interview Host (archive footage: Person to Person [1955])
 
1979 Time After Time
Himself (archive sound) (uncredited)
 
1975 60 Minutes (TV series documentary)
 
1968 The Movie Orgy (documentary)
Himself - Unidentified Program (uncredited)
 
1958 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV series)
 
1945 War Comes to America (documentary)
Himself
 

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War Comes to America -- Part VII of the "Why We Fight" series of wartime documentaries. This entry attempts to describe the factors leading up to America's entry into the Second World War.
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Personal Details

Other Works:

Magazine ad: the Pan-American Coffee Bureau (1953) See more »

Publicity Listings:

2 Biographical Movies  | 12 Print Biographies  | 2 Articles  | 2 Magazine Cover Photos  | See more »

Alternate Names:

Voice of Edward R. Murrow - London 1941 | Edward Murrow
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Did You Know?

Personal Quote:

"Dear Sir or Madam: You may be right." This was Murrow's standard postcard reply to any and all critics who wrote to him. See more »

Trivia:

Murrow's public attacks on Senator Joseph McCarthy were prompted by the suicide of Murrow's friend, former State Department official Laurence Duggan, whom had been accused of being a spy for the Soviet Union. Responding to Murrow, McCarthy challenged him to debate William F. Buckley about Communists within the U.S... See more »

Trademark:

Signed off every radio show with "Good Night, and Good Luck" See more »

Nickname:

Blow See more »

Star Sign:

Taurus