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.

KNOWN FOR

American Experience
1991
World in Action
1964
Vietnam: A Television History
1983
The Vietnam War
2017
Bobby Kennedy for President
2018
The Fog of War
2003
Turning Point: The Vietnam War
2025
The Most Dangerous Man in America
2009
Laboratory Greece
2019
No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat
2004
The War at Home
1979
Why Vietnam?
1965

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
20
2025
Turning Point: The Vietnam War
as Self (Archive Footage)
2023
The Lies That Led America To War In Vietnam
as Himself (archive footage)
2019
Laboratory Greece
as Self (archive footage)
2018
Bobby Kennedy for President
as Self (archive footage)
2017
The Vietnam War
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
2011
The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby
as Self - Secretary of Defense (voice) (archive footage)
2009
The Most Dangerous Man in America
as Self (archive footage)
2005
U.S. Strategic Nuclear Policy
as Self
2004
No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat
as Self
2003
The Fog of War
as Self
2002
USS Liberty: Dead in the Water
as Self (archive footage)
2002
Cold War Submarine Adventures: Cuban Missile Crisis - Secret Subs
as Himself - Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense 1961-1968
1991
American Experience
as Self (archive footage)
1983
Vietnam: A Television History
as Self (archive footage)
1983
Vietnam: A Television History
as Self
1979
The War at Home
as Self (archive footage)
1967
Death on a Rainy Day
as Himself - 1960-1968 Secretary of Defense (archive footage) (uncredited)
1965
Why Vietnam?
as Self
1964
World in Action
America's Lost Bombs: The True Story Of Broken Arrows
as Self