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.

KNOWN FOR

American Experience
2024
The UnXplained
2020
First Ladies
2020
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
2021
The Majestic
2001
Ku Klux Klan: An American Story
2020
Marilyn and the Mob
2026
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018
Standoff: The FBI, Power and Paranoia
2026
Rogues Gallery
1997
Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics
2010
The Real Charlie Chaplin
2021

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
45
Writing
4
Crew
1
2026
Martin Luther King Jr.: Enemies of the Dream
as Self (archive footage)
2026
Standoff: The FBI, Power and Paranoia
as Self
2026
Marilyn and the Mob
as archive footage
2024
American Experience
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
2023
Follow That Bishop!
as himself
2022
The Real Spies Among Friends
as Self (archive footage)
2021
The Real Charlie Chaplin
as Self (archive footage)
2021
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
as Self (archive footage)
2020
MLK/FBI
as Self (archive footage)
2020
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
as arcive footage
2020
The UnXplained
as Self (archive footage)
2020
First Ladies
as Self (archive footage)
2020
Ku Klux Klan: An American Story
as Self - FBI Director (voice) (archive footage)
2019
Chaplin vs the FBI
as Self (archive footage)
2018
Martin Luther King, Jr. : Marked Man
as Self (archive footage)
2018
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
2017
Arthur Miller: Writer
as Self (archive footage)
2014
Freedom Summer
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
2014
Documenting John Grierson
2014
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
as Self (archive footage)
2014
1971
as Self (archive footage)
2013
After Newtown: Guns in America
as Self - first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (archive footage)
2013
Lee Harvey Oswald: 48 Hours to Live
as Self (archive footage)
2012
Who Bombed Judi Bari?
as Self (archive footage)
2010
COINTELPRO 101
as Self (archive footage)
2010
Roads to Memphis
as Self (archive footage)
2010
Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics
as Self (archive footage)
2008
The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
as Self (archive footage)
2007
Oswald's Ghost
as Self (archive footage)
2006
J. Edgar Hoover and the Great American Inquisitions
2004
Heir To An Execution
as Self (archive footage)
2001
It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
as Self (archive footage)
2001
The Majestic
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1998
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
as Self (archive footage)
1997
Rogues Gallery
as Self (archive footage)
1992
The Real Malcolm X
1992
Murderers, Mobsters & Madmen: Fatal Females
1991
American Experience
as Self (archive footage)
1975
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
1974
Hearts and Minds
as Self (archive footage)
1968
Revolution Underway
1959
The FBI Story
as J. Edgar Hoover (uncredited)
1951
A Day With The F.B.I.
as Self
1947
Communism Condemned
as Self
1943
Youth in Crisis
as Self