Joseph McCarthy

Personal Info

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Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1908-11-14 (49 years old)

Deathday

1957-05-02

Place of Birth

Grand Chute, Wisconsin, USA

Joseph McCarthy

Biography

Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death at age 48 in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread communist subversion. He alleged that numerous communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers had infiltrated the United States federal government, universities, film industry, and elsewhere. Ultimately he was censured by the Senate in 1954 for refusing to cooperate with and abusing members of the comm...

Acting

2005

Good Night, and Good Luck.

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2018

RBG

as Self (archive footage)

1964

1974

Hearts and Minds

as Self (archive footage)

1969

The Two Kennedys

as Self (archive footage)

2008

The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer

as Self (archive footage)

1981

The Day After Trinity

as Self (archive footage)

2015

Imminent Threat

as Self (archive footage)

2019

The Lavender Scare

as Himself (archive footage)

2014

And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)

1975

McCarthy: Death of a Witch Hunter

as Self (archive footage)

2020

The Soul of America

as Self (archive footage)

2019

Where's My Roy Cohn?

as Self (archive footage)

2018

RBG

as Self (uncredited)

2012

Ethel

as Self (archive footage)

2019

Coup 53

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

2020

McCarthy

as Self - (archive footage)

1973

Grierson

as Self (archive footage)

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