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Robert Strange McNamara 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. He played a major role in escalating the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War. McNamara was responsible for the institution of systems analysis in public policy, which developed into the discipline known today as policy analysis.
Birth Name
Robert Strange McNamara
Born
Friday, 09 June 1916
Died
Monday, 06 July 2009
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Kennedy | Self | 2023 |
| JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass | Self | 2021 |
| APOCALYPSE War of Worlds 1945-1991 | Self | 2019 |
| Secrets in the Sky: The Untold Story of Skunk Works | Self | 2019 |
| Bobby Kennedy for President | Self | 2018 |
| The Vietnam War | Self - United States Secretary of Defense / Self - Secretary of Defense | 2017 |
| Top 10 Secrets and Mysteries | Self | 2016 |
| The Sixties | Self - Secretary of Defense / Self - US Secy of Defense | 2013 |
| In My Lifetime: A Presentation of the Nuclear World Project | Self - US Secretary of Defense 1961-1968 | 2013 |
| The Other Angels | Self - Secretary of Defense | 2013 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Kennedy | Self | 2023 |
| JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass | Self | 2021 |
| APOCALYPSE War of Worlds 1945-1991 | Self | 2019 |
| Secrets in the Sky: The Untold Story of Skunk Works | Self | 2019 |
| Bobby Kennedy for President | Self | 2018 |
| The Vietnam War | Self - United States Secretary of Defense / Self - Secretary of Defense | 2017 |
| Top 10 Secrets and Mysteries | Self | 2016 |
| The Sixties | Self - Secretary of Defense / Self - US Secy of Defense | 2013 |
| In My Lifetime: A Presentation of the Nuclear World Project | Self - US Secretary of Defense 1961-1968 | 2013 |
| The Other Angels | Self - Secretary of Defense | 2013 |
| The Untold History of the United States | Self - Defense Secretary | 2012 |
| The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby | Self - Secretary of Defense / Self - Secretary of Defense (voice) (archive footage) | 2011 |
| The Lost Kennedy Home Movies | Self | 2011 |
| Us Welcome, Us Go Home | Self | 2011 |
| Hubert H Humphrey: The Art of the Possible | Self - United States Secretary of Defense | 2010 |
| Countdown to Zero | Self | 2010 |
| The Kennedy Assassination: 24 Hours After | Self | 2009 |
| The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2009 |
| Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech | Self - U.S. secretary of defense | 2009 |
| Superpower | Self | 2008 |
| War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death | Self | 2007 |
| The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom | Self | 2007 |
| Conspiracy Files | Self | 2006 |
| The Doomsday Clock | Self - Secretary of Defense - Kennedy and Johnson administrations | 2006 |
| No Fighting in the War Room or Dr. Strangelove and the Nuclear Threat | Himself / Self | 2004 |
| The Fog of War | Self | 2003 |
| JFK: A Presidency Revealed | Self | 2003 |
| The Pentagon Papers | Self | 2003 |
| The Cold War and Beyond | Self | 2002 |
| USS Liberty: Dead in the Water | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2002 |
| Cuban Missile Crisis: Secret Subs | Himself - Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense 1961-1968 | 2002 |
| Roots of the Cuban Missile Crisis | Self | 2001 |
| Cold War | Self | 1998 |
| Secrets of War | Self / Self - U.S. Secretery of Defence, 1961-1968 | 1998 |
| Hope | Self | 1997 |
| Nixon | Self - Laughing | 1995 |
| Pandora's Box | Self | 1992 |
| JFK | Self | 1991 |
| American Experience | Self | 1988 |
| Vietnam: A Television History | Self | 1983 |
| Timewatch | Self | 1982 |
| The War at Home | Self - Speech on Hanoi Bombing / Self (archive footage) | 1979 |
| Nova | Self - Former Secretary of Defense | 1974 |
| Executive Action | Self - Listens to Test Ban Speech | 1973 |
| I Due Kennedy | Self | 1969 |
| In the Year of the Pig | Self - Secretary of Defense, on Tonkin Gulf Incident | 1968 |
| 60 Minutes | Himself - Defense Secretary (segment "LBJ Tapes") (archive footage) | 1968 |
| Death on a Rainy Day | Self - 1960-1968 Secretary of Defense | 1967 |
| A Trip Down Memory Lane | Self - with Maxwell Taylor | 1965 |
| Four Days in November | Self | 1964 |
| World in Action | Self | 1963 |
