Cast & creator
Robert McNamara
Best known for American Experience, World in Action, Vietnam: A Television History
Robert Strange McNamara (June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009) was an American business executive and the eighth United States Secretary of Defense, serving from 1961 to 1968 under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
Also known as: Robert S. McNamara, Robert Strange McNamara
13
film credits
7
television credits
20
1963–2025 · acting roles
7.5
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (20)
Showing 20 of 20 credits
American Experience
Self (archive footage)
1988
World in Action
1963
Vietnam: A Television History
Self (archive footage)
1983Vietnam: A Television History
Self
1983
The Vietnam War
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2017
Bobby Kennedy for President
Self (archive footage)
2018
The Fog of War
Self
2003
Turning Point: The Vietnam War
Self (Archive Footage)
2025
The Most Dangerous Man in America
Self (archive footage)
2009
Laboratory Greece
Self (archive footage)
2019
Why Vietnam?
Self
1965
The War at Home
Self (archive footage)
1979
No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat
Self
2004
Death on a Rainy Day
Himself - 1960-1968 Secretary of Defense (archive footage) (uncredited)
1967
Cold War Submarine Adventures: Cuban Missile Crisis - Secret Subs
Himself - Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense 1961-1968
2002The Lies That Led America To War In Vietnam
Himself (archive footage)
2023
U.S. Strategic Nuclear Policy
Self
2005
The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby
Self - Secretary of Defense (voice) (archive footage)
2011
USS Liberty: Dead in the Water
Self (archive footage)
2002America's Lost Bombs: The True Story Of Broken Arrows
Self