J. Edgar Hoover (film)
Appearance
J. Edgar Hoover | |
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Based on | The Bureau: My 30 Years in Hoover's FBI by
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Written by | Robert L. Collins |
Directed by | Robert L. Collins |
Starring | Treat Williams |
Music by | J. Peter Robinson |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
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Executive producers |
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Producer | Robert L. Collins |
Cinematography | Tim Suhrstedt |
Editor | Patrick Kennedy |
Running time | 108 minutes |
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Original release | |
Network | Showtime |
Release | January 11, 1987 |
J. Edgar Hoover is a 1987 American biographical drama television film written and directed by Robert L. Collins. It stars Treat Williams as the eponymous J. Edgar Hoover, the long-serving (1924 - 1972) Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The film is based on the 1979 book The Bureau: My 30 Years in Hoover's FBI by William C. Sullivan and William S. Brown, and dramatizes key points in Hoover's life between the time he joined the U.S. Justice Department in 1919 and his death in May 1972. It aired on Showtime on January 11, 1987.
Cast
[edit]- Treat Williams - J. Edgar Hoover
- Robert Alan Browne - Gaston Means
- Mark Carlton - 1st Agent
- Andrew Duggan - Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Louise Fletcher - Annie M. Hoover
- Charles Hallahan - Joseph McCarthy
- Art Hindle - John F. Kennedy
- Erik Holland - William J. Burns
- James F. Kelly - Robert F. Kennedy (one of seven appearances as RFK)
- Paul Kent - Harry M. Daugherty
- Lee Kessler - Helen Gandy
- Charles Levin - Producer
- John McLiam - A. Mitchell Palmer
- F.J. O'Neil - Harry Vaughn
- Ford Rainey - Harlan Fiske Stone
- Joe Regalbuto - William C. Sullivan
- David Ogden Stiers - Franklin D. Roosevelt
- William Traylor - Nicholas Katzenbach
- Harvey Vernon - Senator George W. Norris
- Mills Watson - Senator Kenneth McKellar
- Anthony Palmer - Richard M. Nixon
- Rip Torn - Lyndon B. Johnson
- Don Draper - Maitre d'
- Paul Keith - Doctor
- Gracia Lee - Annie
- Cliff Murdock - Carl Mathews
- Michael Griswold - Congressman Hale Boggs
- Walker Edmiston - Harry S. Truman
- Robert Harper - Clyde Tolson
External links
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Categories:
- 1987 television films
- 1987 films
- 1987 drama films
- 1980s biographical drama films
- 1980s English-language films
- American biographical drama films
- Biographical television films
- American drama television films
- Cultural depictions of Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Cultural depictions of John F. Kennedy
- Cultural depictions of Robert F. Kennedy
- Cultural depictions of J. Edgar Hoover
- Cultural depictions of Lyndon B. Johnson
- Cultural depictions of Richard Nixon
- Cultural depictions of Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Cultural depictions of Harry S. Truman
- Films about the Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Films based on biographies
- Films directed by Robert L. Collins
- Films scored by J. Peter Robinson
- Showtime (TV network) films
- Television films based on books
- 1980s American films
- English-language biographical drama films
- American television film stubs