Cast & creator
J. Edgar Hoover
Best known for American Experience, American Experience, The UnXplained
John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was an American law enforcement administrator who served as the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States.
Also known as: John Edgar Hoover
41
film credits
9
television credits
45
1939–2026 · acting roles
6.7
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (50)
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American Experience
Self (voice) (archive footage)
1988American Experience
Self (archive footage)
1988
The UnXplained
Self (archive footage)
2019
First Ladies
Self (archive footage)
2020
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
Self (archive footage)
2021
The Majestic
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2001
Ku Klux Klan: An American Story
Self - FBI Director (voice) (archive footage)
2020
Marilyn and the Mob
archive footage
2026
Rogues Gallery
Self (archive footage)
1997
Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics
Self (archive footage)
2010
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
2018
Standoff: The FBI, Power and Paranoia
Self
2026
Undercover Doctor
Book
1939
The Real Charlie Chaplin
Self (archive footage)
2021
The FBI Story
J. Edgar Hoover (uncredited)
1959The FBI Story
Thanks
1959
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
1975
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
arcive footage
2020
Hearts and Minds
Self (archive footage)
1974
Martin Luther King Jr.: Enemies of the Dream
Self (archive footage)
2026
Queen of the Mob
Book
1940
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
Self (archive footage)
2014
The Real Spies Among Friends
Self (archive footage)
2022
The Real Malcolm X
1992
It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
Self (archive footage)
2001
The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Self (archive footage)
2008
Chaplin vs the FBI
Self (archive footage)
2019
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
Self (archive footage)
1998
Who Bombed Judi Bari?
Self (archive footage)
2012
Heir To An Execution
Self (archive footage)
2004Martin Luther King, Jr. : Marked Man
Self (archive footage)
2018
Persons in Hiding
Book
1939
Parole Fixer
Book
1940
Lee Harvey Oswald: 48 Hours to Live
Self (archive footage)
2013Documenting John Grierson
2014
Arthur Miller: Writer
Self (archive footage)
2017
MLK/FBI
Self (archive footage)
2020
Communism Condemned
Self
1947Murderers, Mobsters & Madmen: Fatal Females
1992
After Newtown: Guns in America
Self - first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (archive footage)
2013
Oswald's Ghost
Self (archive footage)
2007
1971
Self (archive footage)
2014
Roads to Memphis
Self (archive footage)
2010
COINTELPRO 101
Self (archive footage)
2010
Freedom Summer
Self (voice) (archive footage)
2014
J. Edgar Hoover and the Great American Inquisitions
2006
Follow That Bishop!
himself
2023
Revolution Underway
1968
A Day With The F.B.I.
Self
1951
Youth in Crisis
Self
1943