J. Edgar Hoover (film)
Appearance
J. Edgar Hoover | |
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Genre | Drama |
Based on | The Bureau: My 30 Years in Hoover's FBI by William C. Sullivan & William S. Brown |
Written by | Robert L. Collins |
Directed by | Robert L. Collins |
Starring | Joe Regalbuto Walker Edmiston John McLiam |
Theme music composer | J. Peter Robinson |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Executive producers | Bill Finnegan Patricia Finnegan Sheldon Pinchuk |
Producers | Robert L. Collins Scott Winant (co-producer) Christina Hornisher (associate producer) E. Darrell Hallenbeck (supervising producer) |
Cinematography | Tim Suhrstedt |
Editor | Patrick Kennedy |
Running time | 108 min. |
Production companies | Finnegan/Pinchuk Productions RLC Productions Showtime Networks |
Original release | |
Network | Showtime |
Release | January 11, 1987 |
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
- 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
Crew
- Robert E. Collins - Director
- J. Peter Robinson - Composer (Music Score)
- Patrick Kennedy - Editor
- Ward Preston - Production Designer
External links
Categories:
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Cultural depictions of J. Edgar Hoover
- Cultural depictions of Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Cultural depictions of Harry S. Truman
- Cultural depictions of Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Cultural depictions of John F. Kennedy
- Cultural depictions of Robert F. Kennedy
- Cultural depictions of Lyndon B. Johnson
- Cultural depictions of Richard Nixon
- 1987 television films
- 1987 films
- Films based on biographies
- American films
- English-language films
- American television films
- American television film stubs