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Joseph McCarthy
Actor
Born November 14, 1908Died May 2, 1957 (48 years)
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 committee established to investigate whether or not he should be censured. The term "McCarthyism", coined in 1950 in reference to McCarthy's practices, was soon applied to similar anti-communist activities. Today the term is used more broadly to mean demagogic, reckless, and unsubstantiated accusations, as well as public attacks on the character or patriotism of political opponents.
Filmography
| 2025 | Good Night, and Good Luck · as Self |
| 2024 | |
| 2023 | |
| 2022 | |
| 2022 | The Lincoln Project (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2021 | Coded · as Self - U.s. Senator |
| 2020 | The Soul of America · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2020 | The Big Scary 'S' Word · as Self - U.s. Senator From Wisconsin |
| 2020 | McCarthy · as Self - (archive Footage) |
| 2019 | Where's My Roy Cohn? · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2019 | Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2019 | Coup 53 · as Self - Politician (archive Footage) |
| 2019 | Greatest Events of WWII in Colour (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2018 | |
| 2017 | James Stewart, Robert Mitchum: The Two Faces of America · as Self (uncredited) |
| 2017 | The Lavender Scare · as Himself (archive Footage) |
| 2016 | A Case of the Cold War: Bridge of Spies · as Self |
| 2015 | Trumbo · as Self |
| 2015 | Imminent Threat · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2015 | Requiem for the American Dream · as Self |
| 2014 | And the Oscar Goes to... · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2012 | Bettie Page Reveals All · as Self |
| 2012 | Ethel · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2011 | Sing Your Song · as Self |
| 2011 | Codebreaker · as Self (as Joe Mccarthy) |
| 2011 | The Real American: Joe McCarthy · as Self |
| 2009 | Studs Terkel: Listening to America · as Self |
| 2009 | Outrage · as Self - Former Senator From Wisconsin |
| 2009 | Under the Hood · as Self |
| 2009 | The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2009 | |
| 2008 | Strictly Courtroom · as Self |
| 2008 | Where I Stand: The Hank Greenspun Story · as Self |
| 2007 | |
| 2006 | Freedom's Fury · as Self |
| 2005 | Good Night, and Good Luck. · as Self (archive Footage) (uncredited) |
| 2005 | USA the Movie · as Self |
| 2004 | Heir to an Execution: A Granddaughter's Story · as Self - Senator |
| 2002 | Keep the Faith, Baby · as Self |
| 2002 | Playboy: Inside the Playboy Mansion · as Self |
| 1999 | The Korean War: Fire and Ice (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1999 | Television: The First Fifty Years · as Self - Senator Mccarthy |
| 1998 | Winchell · as Self |
| 1997 | Contact · as Self - Voice Through Space |
| 1995 | Nixon · as Self |
| 1995 | Truman · as Self - Abuses Acheson, Truman |
| 1992 | Chaplin · as Self - Baits Reds |
| 1984 | Before Stonewall · as Self |
| 1983 | Seeing Red · as Self |
| 1983 | The Return of Captain Invincible · as Self |
| 1982 | The Atomic Cafe · as Self |
| 1981 | The Day After Trinity · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1977 | The Tallest Tree in Our Forest · as Self |
| 1976 | Hollywood on Trial · as Self |
| 1976 | The Front · as Self - 1953 Wedding |
| 1974 | Hearts and Minds · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1974 | Gehlen: Hitler's Superspy · as Self |
| 1973 | Grierson · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1971 | |
| 1969 | I due Kennedy · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1968 | In the Year of the Pig · as Self - Speech On Indochina |
| 1964 | Point of Order! · as Self |
| 1954 | Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1947 | Meet the Press (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |