Walter Cronkite
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 4, 1916
- Died
- July 17, 2009 (aged 92)
- Birthplace
- St. Joseph, Missouri, USA
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, the death of civil rights pioneer Martin Luther King, Jr., Watergate, and the Iran Hostage Crisis, he was known for extensive TV coverage of the U.S. space program, from Project Mercury to the Moon landings to the Space Shuttle. He was the only non-NASA recipient of a Moon-rock award. Cronkite is well known for his departing catchphrase "And that's the way it is," followed by the date on which the appearance is aired. Description above from the Wikipedia article Walter Cronkite, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Apollo 13
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Milk
Thirteen Days
Apollo 11
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
This Film Is Not Yet Rated
The Pixar Story
The Dish
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy
Photos
Filmography
Man on the Moon: The Epic Journey of Apollo 11
Movie · as Self
One to One: John & Yoko
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Sally
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
JFK Assassination: A New Perspective
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Bad Hostage
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The White House Effect
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Apollo 13: Survival
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Black
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 4 eps
JFK: 24 Hours That Changed the World
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
The Janes
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Martha Mitchell Effect
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Movie · as Self (voice) (archive sound)
Untold: Caitlyn Jenner
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Movie · as Self - Host, CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite (archive footage)
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Fiasco
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Killing John F. Kennedy
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Real Right Stuff
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Whose Vote Counts, Explained
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Challenger: The Final Flight
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
I Am Richard Pryor
Movie · as Self - Anchorman (archive footage)
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Movie · as Self - Anchorman (archive footage)
Apollo: The Forgotten Films
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Apollo 11
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Apollo: Missions to the Moon
Movie · as Self - CBS News (archive footage)
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Mike Wallace Is Here
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
8 Days: To the Moon and Back
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Reversing Roe
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Studio 54
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Reagan Show
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dateline: Saigon
Movie · as Self (archival footage)
The Fabulous Allan Carr
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Seventies
TV · as Self · 8 eps
The Man Who Saved the World
Movie · as Self
Led Zeppelin Played Here
Movie · as Self - Newscaster (archive footage)
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Sixties
TV · as Self (archive footage), Self - CBS News (archive footage) · 10 eps
JFK: One PM Central Standard Time
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Newsflash: Stories That Stopped the World
Movie · as Self
SS United States: Made in America
Movie · as Self
Valentino's Ghost
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
JFK
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Ethel
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Free Angela and All Political Prisoners
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Home Away From Home: The Yanks in Ireland
Movie · as Narrator
Gloria: In Her Own Words
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Milk
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Man on the Moon with Walter Cronkite
Movie · as Reporter
SS United States: Lady in Waiting
Movie · as Self
Legacy of War
Movie · as Host
Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater
Movie · as Self
The Pixar Story
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
War Made Easy
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
This Film Is Not Yet Rated
Movie · as Self - 1968 TV Newscaster (archive footage) (uncredited)
Out of the Shadows: The Man Who Was Deep Throat
Movie · as Self
Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire
Movie · as Self
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
Movie · as Self
The Making of 'Network'
Movie · as Self
Return to Flight HD: The Inside Story
Movie · as Host
The Nuremberg Trials
Movie · as Self
Apollo 13: The Inside Story
Movie · as Self - CBS Evening News Anchorman
A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin
Movie · as Self
Edward R. Murrow - The McCarthy Years
Movie · as Host
Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy
Movie · as Self
Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
America's Choir: The Story of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Movie · as Narrator
Liberty's Kids - The Boston Tea Party
Movie · as Benjamin Franklin
Silent Night, Holy Night with Walter Cronkite
Movie · as Self
JFK II: The Bush Connection
Movie · as Self - Anchor, CBS News (voice) (archive sound)
Amateur Radio Today
Movie · as Self
Journalists: Killed in the Line of Duty
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
JFK: Breaking the News
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Reporting America at War
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
Movie · as Self (voice)
Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story
Movie · as Self (uncredited)
S.O.S. Planet
Movie · as Self
Liberty's Kids
TV · as Benjamin Franklin (voice) · 40 eps
O Holy Night: Christmas At Concordia
Movie · as Narrator
On Common Ground
Movie · as Self - Commentator
Korean War Stories
Movie
Fail Safe
Movie · as Self - Host
Thirteen Days
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Dish
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The American President
TV · as George Washington · 10 eps
Television: The First Fifty Years
Movie · as Self
Silicon Valley: A 100 Year Renaissance
Movie · as Host
War and Civilization
TV · as Self - Narrator · 8 eps
4 Little Girls
Movie · as Self - Special Correspondent CBS News
HARDtalk
TV · 1 ep
All Power to the People!
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Corwin
Movie · as Self
E! True Hollywood Story
TV
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Secret of the Wild Child
Movie · as Self
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
Movie · as Captain Neweyes (voice)
As it Happened: The Killing of Kennedy
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
Movie · as Self - CBS News
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Titanic: Treasure of the Deep
Movie · as Self
The Real Malcolm X
Movie
The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Dinosaur!
TV · as Self - Host · 4 eps
Night of 100 Stars III
Movie · as Self
Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music
Movie · as Self
Nixon
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
50 Years of Television: A Golden Celebration
Movie · as Self - Host
Back to Neverland
Movie · as Walter Cronkite
John F. Kennedy and the Memory of a Nation
Movie · as Self - Host
Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration
Movie · as Self
Who Shot President Kennedy?
Movie · as Self
An Empire of Reason
Movie · as Self
American Experience
TV · as Self, Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Murphy Brown
TV · as Walter Cronkite · 1 ep
American Masters
TV · as Self - Interviewee (archive footage) · 1 ep
The Dream Is Alive
Movie · as Narrator
Vietnam War with Walter Cronkite
TV · as Self · 12 eps
Television
TV · 2 eps
J.F.K.: A One-Man Show
Movie · as Self - Narrator
I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind
Movie · as Self - Host
1984 Revisited
Movie · as Himself
Vietnam: A Television History
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Why was Cairo Calm
Movie
Walt Disney: One Man's Dream
Movie · as Self
A Private Battle
Movie · as Self
Hispanic America
Movie · as Self
The Kennedy Center Honors
TV · as Self - Master of Ceremonies · 1 ep
New England Our Way
Movie · as Self
Dinah!
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Great Performances
TV · as Self - Host · 1 ep
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
TV · as Walter Cronkite · 1 ep
Man on the Moon: The Epic Journey of Apollo 11
TV · as Himself - News Anchor · 9 eps
The Movie Orgy
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Dick Cavett Show
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
The Making of an Underground Film
Movie · as Self
World in Action
TV · 2 eps
CBS Reports: Biography of a Bookie Joint
Movie · as Self - Narrator
The Mike Douglas Show
TV · as Self · 4 eps
CBS Evening News
TV · as Self - Anchor
The Incredible Turk
Movie · as Narrator
The Twentieth Century
TV · as Self - Narrator · 1 ep
The Steve Allen Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Tony Awards
TV · as Self - Presenter · 1 ep
Climax!
TV · as Self - Narrator (voice) · 1 ep
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV · as Self · 1 ep
You Are There
TV · as Self - Host · 153 eps
Two for the Money
TV · 2 eps
The Price of Liberty
Movie · as Narrator(voice)
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Golden Globe Awards
TV · as Self - Nominee · 1 ep