Walter Cronkite Biography (1916-)

Full name, Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr.; born November 4, 1916, in St. Joseph,MO; son of Walter Leland (a dentist) and Helen Lena (maiden name, Fritsche)Cronkite; married Mary Elizabeth Simmons Maxwell (a journalist), March 30, 1940; children: Nancy Elizabeth, Mary Kathleen, Walter Leland III. Addresses: Office: CBS News, 51 W. 52nd St., Suite 1934, New York, NY 10019-6119.

Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupation: Journalist, television news anchor, commentator, writer, producer, editor
Birth Details: November 4, 1916; St. Joseph, Missouri, United States

Famous Works

CREDITS
Television Appearances
Series
Anchor, CBS News Up to the Minute, CBS, 1951
Anchor, The Week in Review, CBS, 1951-62
Moderator, The Facts We Face (also known as Open Hearing),CBS, 1951
Moderator, Man of the Week, CBS, 1952-53
Host, Pick the Winner, CBS, 1952 , then 1956
Anchor, You Are There, CBS, 1953-57
Moderator, It's News to Me, CBS, 1954
Coordinator and master of ceremonies, Morning Show, CBS, 1953
Host, It's News to Me, CBS, 1955
Quiz authority, Two for the Money, 1955-56
Narrator, Air Power, CBS, 1956-57
Narrator, The 20th Century, CBS, 1957-1967 , renamed The 21st Century, 1967-1970
Anchor, Presidential Countdown, CBS, 1960
Anchor, Eyewitness, CBS, 1961-62
Anchor, CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, CBS, 1962-81
Anchor, Campaign Countdown, CBS, 1980
Anchor, Universe, CBS, 1980-81 , renamed Walter Cronkite'sUniverse, CBS, 1981-82
The Cronkite Reports, Discovery Channel, 1994
Cronkite Remembers, CBS and Discovery Channel, 1996
Movies
Cameo, A Private Battle, CBS, 1980
Specials
Narrator, You Are There, CBS, 1971
Narrator, The Newsreel Era--Seventy Years of Headlines, CBS, 1972. Solzhenitsyn, CBS, 1974
Correspondent, CBS Reports: The Rockefellers, CBS, 1974
Vietnam: A War That Is Finished, CBS, 1975
The President in China, CBS, 1975
In Celebration of US, CBS, 1976
Our Happiest Birthday, CBS, 1977
Host, CBS: On the Air, CBS, 1978
Walt Disney ... One Man's Dream, CBS, 1981
Host, I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind, CBS, 1983
1984 Revisited, CBS, 1984
Host, Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts,CBS, 1984 , 1985 , 1986 , 1987 , and 1988
Host and narrator, Hiroshima Plus Forty Years ... And Still Counting, CBS, 1985
Honor, Duty, and a War Called Vietnam, CBS, 1985
Reporter, Terrorism: War in the Shadows, CBS, 1985
Host, From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1986, CBS, PBS,1986

Host, Walter Cronkite at Large, CBS, 1986
Texas 150: A Celebration Special, CBS, 1986
Host, From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1987, PBS, 1987
Host, We the People 200: The Constitutional Gala, CBS, 1987
Narrator, Children of Apartheid, CBS, 1987
Special correspondent, Walter Cronkite at Large, CBS, 1987
The Television Academy Hall of Fame, Fox, 1987
Host, Nixon in China (opera), PBS, 1988
Irving Berlin's One Hundredth Birthday Celebration, 1988
The Holocaust: In Memory of Millions, Discovery Channel, 1993
Himself, The Kennedy Center Honors, 1998
(Uncredited; archive footage) Image of an Assassination: A New Look atthe Zapuder Film, 1998
Himself, AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies, 1998
Host, Fail Safe, 2000
Himself, Here's to You, Charlie Brown: 50 Great Years, 2000
Miniseries
(Uncredited; archive footage) Vietnam: A Television History, 1985
Narrator, Tobacco Wars, TLC, 1999
Episodic
Guest panelist, Front Page Challenge, 1962
Himself, "Ted Baxter Meets Walter Cronkite," The Mary Tyler Moore Show, 1974
Himself, "Roasted," Murphy Brown, 1989
Host, "From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1998," Great Performances, 1998
Television Work
Series
Managing editor, CBS Evening News, CBS, 1962-81
Producer, The Cronkite Reports, Discovery Channel, 1994
Producer, Cronkite Remembers, CBS and Discovery Channel, 1996
Radio Appearances
Announcer, KCMO, Kansas City, MO, 1936-37
Football announcer, WKY, Oklahoma City, OK, 1937
Also commentator from Washington, DC, to Midwest radio stations, 1948-50.
Radio Work
Editor, KCMO, Kansas City, MO, 1936-37
Film Appearances
(Uncredited; archive voice and footage) All the President's Men, 1976
Narrator, The Dream Is Alive (documentary), IMAX Systems, 1984
(Uncredited; archive footage) Kerouac, the Movie, 1985
(Uncredited; archive footage) JFK, 1991
(Uncredited; archive footage) The Real Malcolm X, 1991
Himself (also archive footage) Beyond "JFK": The Question of Conspiracy, 1991
Voice of Captain Neweyes, We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story,1993
Himself, Veillees d'armes (also known as The Trouble We've Seen: A History of Journalism in Wartime and Veilees d'armes:Histoire du journalisme en temps de guerre), 1994
(Uncredited) Voice of himself, Apollo 13, 1995
Himself (Special Correspondent CBS News) 4 Little Girls, 1997
(Uncredited; archive footage) The Long Way Home, Seventh Art Releasing, 1997
RECORDINGS
Albums
WRITINGS
Television Specials
Walter Cronkite's Universe, 1980
Books
(Contributor) Conventions and Elections, 1960: A Complete Handbook, edited by M. Mirkin Stanford, Channel Press, 1960
Vietnam Perspective: A CBS News Special Report, Pocket Books, 1965
Eye on the World, Cowles, 1971
The Challenge of Change, Public Affairs Press, 1971
I Can Hear It Now: The Sixties, 1970
South by Southeast, 1983
North by Northeast, Oxmoor House, 1986
A Reporter's Life, 1997
Also contributed articles and reviews to periodicals and newspapers.

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Books:

Encyclopedia of World Biography, February, 1976 Gale Research, 1998.

Periodicals:

Atlantic Monthly, .
Current, June, 1980 .
Esquire, December, 1980 .
50 Plus, November, 1979 March, 1985.
Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service, February 26, 1997.May 22, 1996
New York Times, January 18, 1981 .
Newsweek, March 11, 1968 December 5, 1980; March 9, 1981.
People, March 9, 1981 September 22, 1986.
Reader's Digest, June 9, 1980 .
Saturday Review, November 9, 1983 .
Vogue, April 9, 1986 .

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