J. Edgar Hoover (film)

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Not to be confused with J. Edgar.
J. Edgar Hoover
GenreDrama
Based onThe Bureau: My 30 Years in Hoover's FBI
by William C. Sullivan & William S. Brown
Written byRobert L. Collins
Directed byRobert L. Collins
StarringJoe Regalbuto
Walker Edmiston
John McLiam
Theme music composerJ. Peter Robinson
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producersBill Finnegan
Patricia Finnegan
Sheldon Pinchuk
ProducersRobert L. Collins
Scott Winant (co-producer)
Christina Hornisher (associate producer)
E. Darrell Hallenbeck (supervising producer)
CinematographyTim Suhrstedt
EditorPatrick Kennedy
Running time108 min.
Production companiesFinnegan/Pinchuk Productions
RLC Productions
Showtime Networks
Original release
NetworkShowtime
ReleaseJanuary 11, 1987 (1987-01-11)

J. Edgar Hoover is a 1987 made-for-television biopic starring 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 dramatises key points in Hoover's life between the time he joined the U.S. Justice Department in 1919 and his death in May 1972.

Cast

Crew

  • Robert E. Collins - Director
  • J. Peter Robinson - Composer (Music Score)
  • Patrick Kennedy - Editor
  • Ward Preston - Production Designer

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