Leslie Groves

Personal Info

Birthday

August 17, 1896

Day of Death

1970-07-13

(73 years old)

Place of Birth

Albany, New York, USA

Also Known As

Leslie Richard Groves Jr.

Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves Jr.

Lieutenant General Leslie Groves

Leslie Groves

Biography

Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves Jr. was a United States Army Corps of Engineers officer who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and directed the Manhattan Project, a top secret research project that developed the atomic bomb during World War II.

Known For

Death in Focus

Filmography

2023
To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb
as Self - Director, Manhattan Project (voice) (archive sound)
2022
A Compassionate Spy
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2015
Cold War Secrets: Stealing the Atomic Bomb
as Self - Director of the Manhattan Project (archive footage)
1989
Death in Focus
as Lieutenant General/ Engineer
1981
The Day After Trinity
as Self (archive footage)
1965
The Decision to Drop the Bomb
as Self