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Walter CronkiteAdd to My CelebsAge 92 (passed away Jul. 17th, 2009) Birthday Nov. 4th, 1916 Born in St. Joseph, Missouri, USA Height 6' |
Walter Cronkite's Main TV Roles |
Main Movie Roles2009 - Fall of the Republic: The Presidency of Barack H. Obama2008 - Milk 2008 - Killer at Large 2008 - Frost/Nixon 2007 - In the Shadow of the Moon 2006 - The U.S. vs. John Lennon 2006 - This Film Is Not Yet Rated 2005 - Sir! No Sir! 2004 - Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism 2000 - The Dish 2000 - Thirteen Days 1997 - 4 Little Girls 1995 - Apollo 13 1993 - We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story 1991 - JFK 1985 - The Dream Is Alive 1976 - All the President's Men 1976 - Network |
NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB
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TRIVIA:
- He is outspoken in his distaste for 'Oliver Stone (I)' (qv)'s film _JFK (1991)_ (qv). Calling the film "Oliver Stone junk" and "A dangerous work of fiction that seriously mid-leads a whole generation of Americans who were not alive at that time".
- Reported on the Nuremberg Trials of Nazi war criminals in 1945.
- His ancestors had settled in New Amsterdam, the Dutch colony that became New York.
- Attended Lanier Junior High School in Houston, Texas. Another famous ex-student was 'Linda Ellerbee' (qv).
- While attending The University of Texas, one of his pastimes was acting in student plays. In one of them, he co-starred with 'Eli Wallach' (qv). He dropped out of UT to become a journalist.
- The very day he was born, his father immediately left the hospital and went out and voted for President Woodrow Wilson.
- Betsy Cronkite, his wife, was working as a newspaper journalist when they met.
- Is a licensed amateur (ham) radio operator with the call sign KB2GSD.
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