Edward R. Murrow

Personal Info

Birthday

April 25, 1908

Day of Death

1965-04-27

(57 years old)

Place of Birth

Guilford County, North Carolina, USA

Also Known As

Edward Roscoe Murrow

Egbert Roscoe Murrow

Edward R. Murrow

Biography

Edward Roscoe Murrow (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow; April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965) was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent. He first gained prominence during World War II with a series of live radio broadcasts from Europe for the news division of CBS. During the war he recruited and worked closely with a team of war correspondents who came to be known as the Murrow Boys.

Known For

Studio One

Around the World in Eighty Days

The Night America Trembled

Is Everybody Listening?

Survival Under Atomic Attack

This Is England

Edward R. Murrow - The Best Of Person To Person

Filmography

2020
The Soul of America
as Self (archive footage)
McCarthy
as Self - (archive footage)
2019
Mike Wallace Is Here
as Self (archive footage)
2017
Maria by Callas
as Self (archive footage)
2012
Ethel
as Self (archive footage)
2010
Deconstructing Dad: The Music, Machines and Mystery of Raymond Scott
as Himself
2007
Brando
as Self (archive footage)
2006
Edward R. Murrow - The Best Of Person To Person
as Host
2000
Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley'
as Self (archive footage)
1999
Television: The First Fifty Years
as Self (archive footage)
1994
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
as Self (archive footage)
1989
Thomas Hart Benton
as Himself (archive footage)
1986
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
as Self (archive footage)
1968
The Movie Orgy
as Self (archive footage)
1961
The Challenge of Ideas
as Self- Narrator
1960
Harvest of Shame
as Himself
Sink the Bismarck!
as Himself - Edward R. Murrow
1958
Small world: Vivien Leigh
as Self- moderator
1957
The Night America Trembled
as Presenter
1956
Around the World in Eighty Days
as Prologue Narrator
1953
One Plane, One Bomb
as Self - Narrator
1951
Survival Under Atomic Attack
as Narrator (voice)
1947
Is Everybody Listening?
as Newscaster
1942
Dover
as Himself - Commentator
1941
This Is England
as Narrator