Walter Cronkite
Known for: Acting
Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years (1962–81). During the heyday of CBS News in the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" after being so named in an opinion poll. Although he reported many events from 1937 to 1981, including bombing in World War II, the Nuremberg trials, combat in the Vietnam War, the death of President John F. Kennedy, the death of civil rights pioneer Martin Luther King, Jr., Watergate, and the Iran Hostage Crisis, he was known for extensive TV coverage of the U.S. space program, from Project Mercury to the Moon landings to the Space Shuttle. He was the only non-NASA recipient of a Moon-rock award. Cronkite is well known for his departing catchphrase "And that's the way it is," followed by the date on which the appearance is aired. Description above from the Wikipedia article Walter Cronkite, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Series
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
Series
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Walter Cronkite
1970
Series
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
1944
Series
Great Performances
Self - Host
1971
Series
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter
1956
Series
American Experience
Self
1988
Series
American Experience
Self (archive footage)
1988
Series
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
Series
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
1993
Series
Murphy Brown
Walter Cronkite
1988
Series
World in Action
1963
Series
American Masters
Self - Interviewee (archive footage)
1986
Series
Climax!
Self - Narrator (voice)
1954
Series
The Steve Allen Show
Self
1956
Series
Dinah!
Self
1974
Series
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948
Series
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self - Master of Ceremonies
1978
Series
HARDtalk
1997
Film
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Self (archive footage)
2019
Series
The Twentieth Century
1957
Series
The Twentieth Century
Self - Narrator
1957
Series
Liberty's Kids
Benjamin Franklin (voice)
2002
Series
You Are There
Self - Host
1953
Series
The Wonderful World of Disney
Self
1954
Film
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2017
Series
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Self
1996
Series
The Seventies
Self
2015
Film
Thirteen Days
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2000
Series
Hollywood Black
Self (archive footage)
2024
Film
Milk
Self (archive footage)
2008
Series
CBS Evening News
Self - Anchor
1961
Series
CBS Evening News
Self
1961
Series
Challenger: The Final Flight
Self (archive footage)
2020
Film
Apollo 11
Self (archive footage)
2019
Film
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
Captain Neweyes (voice)
1993
Film
The Pixar Story
Self (archive footage)
2007
Series
The Sixties
Self (archive footage)
2014
Series
The Sixties
Self - CBS News (archive footage)
2014
Series
Television
1985
Series
Whose Vote Counts, Explained
Self (archive footage)
2020
Film
The Movie Orgy
Self (archive footage)
1968
Film
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Self (voice) (archive sound)
2022
Television: The First Fifty Years
Self
1999
Series
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Film
Fail Safe
Self - Host
2000
Film
Studio 54
Self (archive footage)
2018
Series
The American President
George Washington
2000
Film
Apollo 13: Survival
Self (archive footage)
2024
Film
Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy
Self
2004
Film
The Man Who Saved the World
Self
2014
Film
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Self - Host, CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite (archive footage)
2021
Film
One to One: John & Yoko
Self (archive footage)
2025
Film
Back to Neverland
Walter Cronkite
1989
Film
The Real Right Stuff
Self (archive footage)
2020
Film
Apollo: Missions to the Moon
Self - CBS News (archive footage)
2019
Film
Nixon
Self (archive footage)
1990
Film
Sally
Self (archive footage)
2025
Film
Night of 100 Stars III
Self
1990
Film
Led Zeppelin Played Here
Self - Newscaster (archive footage)
2014
Film
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Self - Anchorman (archive footage)
2019
Film
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Self (archive footage)
2021
Film
The Fabulous Allan Carr
Self (archive)
2017
Film
The Martha Mitchell Effect
Self (archive footage)
2022
Film
This Film Is Not Yet Rated
Self - 1968 TV Newscaster (archive footage) (uncredited)
2006
Series
Fiasco
Self (archive footage)
2021
Film
4 Little Girls
Self - Special Correspondent CBS News
1997
Film
Mike Wallace Is Here
Self (archive footage)
2019
Film
The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden
Self (archive footage)
2020
Film
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
Self (archive footage)
2014
Film
Apollo: The Forgotten Films
Self (archive footage)
2019
Series
Man on the Moon: The Epic Journey of Apollo 11
Himself - News Anchor
1969
Film
The Dream Is Alive
Narrator
1985
Film
A Private Battle
Self
1980
Film
Valentino's Ghost
Self (archive footage)
2013
Film
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
Self - CBS News
1993
Film
Untold: Caitlyn Jenner
Self (archive footage)
2022
Film
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
Self (archive footage)
2019
Two for the Money
1952
Film
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
Self
2006
Film
An Empire of Reason
Self
1988
Film
SS United States: Made in America
Self
2013
Film
JFK: One PM Central Standard Time
Self (archive footage)
2013
Film
The Real Malcolm X
1992
Film
The White House Effect
Self (archive footage)
2024
Film
New England Our Way
Self
1974
Film
The Janes
Self (archive footage)
2022
Film
Walt Disney: One Man's Dream
Self
1981
Film
Dateline: Saigon
Self (archival footage)
2017
Film
Reversing Roe
Self (archive footage)
2018
Film
War Made Easy
Self (archive footage)
2007
Film
JFK Assassination: A New Perspective
Self (archive footage)
2025
Film
The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit
Self (archive footage)
1991
War and Civilization
Self - Narrator
1998
Film
I Am Richard Pryor
Self - Anchorman (archive footage)
2019
Series
Dinosaur!
Self - Host
1991
J.F.K.: A One-Man Show
Self - Narrator
1984
Film
The Making of 'Network'
Self
2006
Film
Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire
Self
2006
Film
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
Self (voice)
2002
Film
8 Days: To the Moon and Back
Self (archive footage)
2019
Film
Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration
Self
1988
Film
Gloria: In Her Own Words
Self (archive footage)
2011
Film
CBS Reports: Biography of a Bookie Joint
Self - Narrator
1961
Film
All Power to the People!
Self (archive footage)
1996
Film
Free Angela and All Political Prisoners
Self (archive footage)
2012
Film
Out of the Shadows: The Man Who Was Deep Throat
Self
2006
Film
JFK II: The Bush Connection
Self - Anchor, CBS News (voice) (archive sound)
2003
Film
Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music
Self
1990
Film
Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story
Self (uncredited)
2002
Series
Vietnam War with Walter Cronkite
Self
1985
I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind
Self - Host
1983
Film
The Nuremberg Trials
Self
2006
Film
Hispanic America
Self
1980
Film
50 Years of Television: A Golden Celebration
Self - Host
1989
Film
The Reagan Show
Self (archive footage)
2017
Film
Titanic: Treasure of the Deep
Self
1992
Film
Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power
Self (archive footage)
2004
Film
A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin
2005
Corwin
Self
1996
Film
The Incredible Turk
Narrator
1958
Film
Killing John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
2020
Korean War Stories
2001
Film
S.O.S. Planet
Self
2002
Film
The Secret of the Wild Child
Self
1994
Film
Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater
Self
2007
Film
John F. Kennedy and the Memory of a Nation
Self - Host
1989
Film
Bad Hostage
Self (archive footage)
2024
Film
Apollo 13: The Inside Story
Self - CBS Evening News Anchorman
2006
Film
Man on the Moon with Walter Cronkite
Reporter
2008
Film
Ethel
Self (archive footage)
2012
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Self (archive footage)
2018
Film
JFK: 24 Hours That Changed the World
Self (archive footage)
2023
Film
Silicon Valley: A 100 Year Renaissance
Host
1998
Film
Silent Night, Holy Night with Walter Cronkite
Self
2003
Film
Home Away From Home: The Yanks in Ireland
Narrator
2011
1984 Revisited
Himself
1983
Film
Edward R. Murrow - The McCarthy Years
Host
2005
Film
America's Choir: The Story of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Narrator
2004
Newsflash: Stories That Stopped the World
Self
2013
Legacy of War
Host
2008
The Making of an Underground Film
Self
1965
On Common Ground
Self - Commentator
2001
Film
Why was Cairo Calm
1982
Film
Amateur Radio Today
Self
2003
As it Happened: The Killing of Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
1993
Film
Journalists: Killed in the Line of Duty
Narrator (voice)
2003
Film
O Holy Night: Christmas At Concordia
Narrator
2001
Film
SS United States: Lady in Waiting
Self
2008
The Price of Liberty
Narrator(voice)
1951
Film
JFK: Breaking the News
Self (archive footage)
2003
Film
Man on the Moon: The Epic Journey of Apollo 11
Self
Film
Who Shot President Kennedy?
Self
1988
Return to Flight HD: The Inside Story
Host
2006