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Robert David "Bob" Simon was an American television correspondent for CBS News. During his career, he covered crises, war, and unrest in 67 countries. Simon reported the withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam, the Israeli-Lebanese Conflict in 1982, and the student protests in China's Tiananmen Square in 1989. During the Persian Gulf War in 1991, he and four of his TV crew were captured and imprisoned by Iraq for 40 days. He published a book about the experience titled "Forty Days."
Birth Name
Robert David Simon
Born
Thursday, 29 May 1941
Died
Wednesday, 11 February 2015
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| It Ain't Over | Self | 2023 |
| 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything | Self | 2021 |
| Fahrenheit 11/9 | Self | 2018 |
| The 2000s | Self - 60 Minutes | 2018 |
| The Summer of Love | Self - CBS News | 2017 |
| The Seventies | Self - CBS News | 2015 |
| The Vietnam War | Self | 2015 |
| Rosewater | Self | 2014 |
| The Armstrong Lie | Self - Reporter | 2013 |
| 60 Minutes Sports | Self - Correspondent (segment "The Deepest Dive") / Self - Correspondent (segment "Messi") / Self - Correspondent (segment "Bob Simon") / Self - Correspondent (segment "Barca") / Self - Correspondent (segment "All Blacks") | 2013 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| It Ain't Over | Self | 2023 |
| 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything | Self | 2021 |
| Fahrenheit 11/9 | Self | 2018 |
| The 2000s | Self - 60 Minutes | 2018 |
| The Summer of Love | Self - CBS News | 2017 |
| The Seventies | Self - CBS News | 2015 |
| The Vietnam War | Self | 2015 |
| Rosewater | Self | 2014 |
| The Armstrong Lie | Self - Reporter | 2013 |
| 60 Minutes Sports | Self - Correspondent (segment "The Deepest Dive") / Self - Correspondent (segment "Messi") / Self - Correspondent (segment "Bob Simon") / Self - Correspondent (segment "Barca") / Self - Correspondent (segment "All Blacks") | 2013 |
| CBS This Morning | Self - Correspondent | 2012 |
| Inside Edition | Self | 2003 |
| 60 Minutes II | Self - Correspondent (segment "Nerd of the Amazon") / Self - Correspondent (segment "The Delinquents") / Self - Correspondent (segment "The Shame of Srebrenica") / Self - Correspondent / Self - Host / Self - Correspondent (segment "Be Good, Smile Pretty") / Self - Correspondent (segment "Milosevic") / Self - Correspondent (segment "Roc-a-fella of Rap") / Self - Correspondent (segment "The First Casualty") / Self - Correspondent (segment "The Golden Boy") / Self - Correspondent (segment "The Lost Boys") / Self - Correspondent (segment "The Lost Children") / Self - Correspondent (segment "The Plot") / Self - Correspondent (segment "The Traitor") / Self | 1999 |
| 20/20 | Self - Journalist | 1978 |
| 60 Minutes | Himself - Host / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Swimming with Sharks") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The Sea Gypsies") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The Secret Language of Elephants") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The Mozart of Chess") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Stealing History") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Spy on Ice") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Poisoned") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Michael Moore") / Himself - Correspondent / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The Stone Box") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Free Diving") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Joy in the Congo") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The Orphanage") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The Oil Sands") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The Other Iraq") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The Patriarch") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The Pink Panthers") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The Pope's Maestro") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The Prince") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The Recyclers") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The Shipbreakers") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The Spark") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "What's New in the Art World") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "White Hot") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Zenyatta") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Zion's Christian Soldiers") / Herself - Correspondent (segment "Roberto Benigni") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "26-Year Secret") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "3 Years Later") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "A Bigger Leap for Mankind") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Aftershock") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Albert Pujols") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Alma") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "An American in North Korea") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Angelina") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Baku") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Barca") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Bassem Youssef") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Bin Laden's Bodyguard") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Blood Brothers") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Medical Tourists") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Mount Athos") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Novak Djokovic") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Old Soldiers") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Qatar") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Rodriguez") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Saving the Children") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The 33") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The American Nuns") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The Archbishop of Dublin") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The Ayatollah Al-Hakim") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The Con Man") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The Greatest Show on Earth") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The Hobbit") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The IAF") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The King of Comedy") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The King of Sushi") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The Kuwait of Africa") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The Lost Boys") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The Mind of a Suicide Bomber") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Bode") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Curve Ball") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Daniel Barenboim") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Discovery") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "El Sistema") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Elian") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "For Better or Worse") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Garden of Eden") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Guilty Until Proven") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Hiding from Death") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Hollywood's Villain") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "In Search of the Jaguar") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Mandela") / Self - Correspondent (segment "Whisky Island") (archive footage) / Himself - Correspondent (segment "ZMapp") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Yankee Go Home!") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Witness") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Whisky Island") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Whisky Island") (archive footage) / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Turkmenbashi") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Title IX") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The Youngest Terrorist") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The World's Greatest Fakes") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The Wild Man of Music") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The Widows of Harlan County") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The Uncounted") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The Prince of Pot") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The Orphanage") (archive footage) / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The Network") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The Nazi Deception") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The Mascot") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The Maestro") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The Highway in the Sky") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The Greyston Bakery") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The Fence") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The Dirty War") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The Crossroad") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "The Copts") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Terrorist Hunter") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Terror Behind Bars") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Tel Aviv") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Suicide Bomber") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Sting") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "State of Denmark") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Selma") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Schneider v. Kissinger") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Sainthood") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Rosie's Run for the Roses") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Revolution") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "R.U.C.") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Queen Latifah") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Personal Foul") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Pacman") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Out of Control") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Olympic Gold") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Off the Scale") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "No Peace Deal") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Nelson and Graca") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Muqtada Al-Sadr") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Miracle Man") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Maximum Security Education") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Mandy Patinkin") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "LT MVP") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Lang Lang") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Iron Dome") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Insider's Prescription") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Inside the Enemy Camp") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Inside Homs") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "I Have a Dream") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Hit Squads") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Highway in the Sky") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Hello, I'm in Finland") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Hell No, We Won't Go!") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Harry A. Radliffe II") (archive footage) / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Gustavo the Great") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Gustavo Dudamel") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Gold Rush") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Doing Business with Enron") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Diamonds") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Detroit") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Deep Dark Secret") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Dave Chappelle") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Comrade Capitalist") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Closing the Gap") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Cinderella Story") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Christians of the Holy Land") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Chernobyl") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Broadway Joe") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Bob Simon") (archive footage) / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Beatrice's Goat") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "BBC") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Battle Over History") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Bad Medicine") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Around the World in 20 Days") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "An Island of Sanity") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "America's Gift") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "Ali") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "After the Wave") / Himself - Correspondent (segment "A Blow to the Brain") / Himself - Correspondent (archive footage) | 1968 |
Producer Filmography
| Title | Year |
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| CSI: NY | 2004 |
