Walter Cronkite

Personal Info

Birthday

November 4, 1916

Day of Death

2009-07-17

(92 years old)

Place of Birth

St. Joseph, Missouri, USA

Also Known As

Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr.

Walter Cronkite

Biography

Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years (1962–81).

During the heyday of CBS News in the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" after being so named in an opinion poll. Although he reported many events from 1937 to 1981, including bombing in World War II, the Nuremberg trials, combat in the Vietnam War, the death of President John F. Kennedy, the death of civil rights pioneer Martin Luther King, Jr.

Known For

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Murphy Brown

Liberty's Kids

The American President

We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story

The Dream Is Alive

Back to Neverland

Man on the Moon with Walter Cronkite

Filmography

2025
One to One: John & Yoko
as Self (archive footage)
Sally
as Self (archive footage)
2024
A Complete Unknown
as Self (archive footage)
Bad Hostage
as Self (archive footage)
Apollo 13: Survival
as Self (archive footage)
2023
JFK: 24 Hours That Changed the World
as Self (archive footage)
2022
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
as Self (voice) (archive sound)
The Janes
as Self (archive footage)
The Martha Mitchell Effect
as Self (archive footage)
2021
Untold: Caitlyn Jenner
as Self (archive footage)
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
as Self (archive footage)
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
as Self (archive footage)
2020
I Am Jackie O
as Self (archive footage)
The Real Right Stuff
as Self (archive footage)
The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden
as Self (archive footage)
Killing John F. Kennedy
as Self (archive footage)
2019
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
as Self - Anchorman (archive footage)
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
as Self (archive footage)
Mike Wallace Is Here
as Self (archive footage)
Apollo: The Forgotten Films
as Self (archive footage)
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
as Self (archive footage)
Apollo: Missions to the Moon
as Self - CBS News (archive footage)
I Am Richard Pryor
as Self - Anchorman (archive footage)
Apollo 11
as Self (archive footage)
2018
Reversing Roe
as Self (archive footage)
Studio 54
as Self (archive footage)
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
as Self (archive footage)
2017
The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee
as Self (archive footage)
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Reagan Show
as Self (archive footage)
Dateline: Saigon
as Self (archival footage)
2014
Led Zeppelin Played Here
as Self - Newscaster (archive footage)
The Man Who Saved the World
as Self
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
as Self (archive footage)
2013
JFK: One PM Central Standard Time
as Self (archive footage)
Newsflash: Stories That Stopped the World
as Self
Valentino's Ghost
as Self (archive footage)
SS United States: Made in America
as Self
2012
Ethel
as Self (archive footage)
2011
Gloria: In Her Own Words
as Self (archive footage)
Home Away From Home: The Yanks in Ireland
as Narrator
2008
Milk
as Self (archive footage)
SS United States: Lady in Waiting
as Self
Man on the Moon with Walter Cronkite
as Reporter
Legacy of War
as Host
2007
The Pixar Story
as Self (archive footage)
Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater
as Self
2006
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
as Self
Apollo 13: The Inside Story
as Self - CBS Evening News Anchorman
Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire
as Self
Out of the Shadows: The Man Who Was Deep Throat
as Self
The Making of 'Network'
as Self
The Nuremberg Trials
as Self
This Film Is Not Yet Rated
as Self - 1968 TV Newscaster (archive footage) (uncredited)
Return to Flight HD: The Inside Story
as Host
2005
Edward R. Murrow - The McCarthy Years
as Host
2004
Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy
as Self
America's Choir: The Story of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
as Narrator
Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power
as Self (archive footage)
2003
Journalists: Killed in the Line of Duty
as Narrator (voice)
JFK: Breaking the News
as Self (archive footage)
Silent Night, Holy Night with Walter Cronkite
as Self
JFK II: The Bush Connection
as Self - Anchor, CBS News (voice) (archive sound)
Amateur Radio Today
as Self
2002
S.O.S. Planet
as Self
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
as Self (voice)
Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story
as Self (uncredited)
2001
O Holy Night: Christmas At Concordia
as Narrator
On Common Ground
as Self - Commentator
2000
Thirteen Days
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Fail Safe
as Self - Host
1999
Television: The First Fifty Years
as Self
1998
Silicon Valley: A 100 Year Renaissance
as Host
1997
4 Little Girls
as Self - Special Correspondent CBS News
1996
Corwin
as Self
All Power to the People!
as Self (archive footage)
1994
The Secret of the Wild Child
as Self
1993
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
as Captain Neweyes (voice)
As it Happened: The Killing of Kennedy
as Self (archive footage)
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
as Self - CBS News
1992
Titanic: Treasure of the Deep
as Narrator
1991
The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit
as Self (archive footage)
1990
Night of 100 Stars III
as Self
Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music
as Self
1989
50 Years of Television: A Golden Celebration
as Self - Host
Back to Neverland
as Walter Cronkite
John F. Kennedy and the Memory of a Nation
as Self - Host
1988
Who Shot President Kennedy?
as Self
An Empire of Reason
as Self
Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration
as Self
1985
The Dream Is Alive
as Narrator
1983
I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind
as Self - Host
1981
Walt Disney: One Man's Dream
as Self
1980
A Private Battle
as Self
1976
All the President's Men
as Self (archive sound) (uncredited)
1974
New England Our Way
as Self
1968
The Movie Orgy
as Self (archive footage)
1965
The Making of an Underground Film
as Self
1958
The Incredible Turk
as Narrator
1951
The Price of Liberty
as Narrator(voice)