Bill Moyers Biography (1934-)

Full name, William Donald Moyers; born June 5, 1934, in Hugo, OK; son of JohnHenry (a laborer) and Ruby (maiden name, Johnson) Moyers; married Judith Suzanne Davidson (a producer), December 18, 1954; children: William Cope, AliceSuzanne, John Davidson. Addresses: Office: Public Affairs Television,Inc., 356 West 58th St., New York, NY 10019.

Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupation: Journalist, commentator, producer, editor, writer
Birth Details: June 5, 1934; Hugo, Oklahoma, United States

Famous Works

CREDITS
Film Appearances
Himself, Beyond Hate, 1991
(Uncredited) Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, 1992
Television Appearances
Series
Host, This Week, PBS, 1970
Host, Bill Moyers' Journal, PBS, 1971-1976, 1978-1981
Bill Moyers' Journal: International Report, PBS, 1975
Chief correspondent, CBS Reports (includes "The Fire Next Door"),CBS, 1976-1980
Senior news analyst and commentator, CBS News, CBS, 1981-1986
CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, CBS, 1981-1986
Creativity with Bill Moyers, PBS, 1982
Our Times with Bill Moyers, CBS, 1983
Anchorman, The American Parade (also known as Crossroads),CBS, 1984
A Walk through the Twentieth Century with Bill Moyers, CBS Cable,then PBS, 1984
Host, Bill Moyers: In Search of the Constitution, PBS, 1987
Host, Moyers: God and Politics, PBS, 1987
Philadelphia Journal, PBS, 1987
The Presidency and the Constitution, 1987
Moyers: The Wisdom of Joseph Campbell, PBS, 1987
Bill Moyers' World of Ideas, PBS, 1988
Moyers: A Second Look, PBS, 1989
Host, Moyers: The Power of the Word, PBS, 1989
Host, A World of Ideas with Bill Moyers, PBS, 1990
Host, Moyers: Sports for Sale (also known as The Tarnished Trophy with Bill Moyers), PBS, 1991
Host, Moyers/The Arab World, PBS, 1991
Host, Listening to America with Bill Moyers, PBS, 1992
The Class of the Twentieth Century, Arts and Entertainment, 1992
Senior news analyst, The NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, NBC, 1995
Host, Internight, MSNBC, 1996
Sounds of Poetry with Bill Moyers, PBS, 1999
Anchor, NOW with Bill Moyers, PBS, 2002
Miniseries
Vietnam: A Television History, 1983
Host, Moyers: Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth, PBS, 1987
Host, The Language of Life with Bill Moyers, 1995
Host, On Our Own Terms: Moyers on Dying, PBS, 2000
Specials
World Hunger! Who Will Survive?, PBS, 1975
Eliza, PBS, 1975
The Erie War, PBS, 1976
Jade Snow, PBS, 1976
The Devil's Work, PBS, 1976
The Edelin Conviction, PBS, 1978
A Portrait of Maya Angelou, PBS, 1982
Correspondent, Our Friends the Germans, 1982
Correspondent, Whose America Is It?, 1985
Desk Correspondent, Campaign '86: Election Night, 1986
Correspondent, The Vanishing Family: Crisis in Black America, CBS,1986
Correspondent, The Burger Years: A CBS News Special, CBS, 1986
Correspondent, Big Gamble in Atlantic City, 1986
Correspondent, One River, One Country--The U.S./Mexico Border, 1986
Correspondent, Big Gamble in Atlantic City, 1986
48 Hours on Crack Street, 1986
Host and narrator, Moyers: The Secret Government ... The Constitutionin Crisis, 1987
Campaign: The Prime-Time President, 1988
The Hero's Journey, 1988
Campaign: The Last Word, 1988
The 46th Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Awards, 1988
Campaign: Promises! Promises!, PBS, 1988
The Secret Government, PBS, 1988
Host, Moyers: Facing Evil, PBS, 1988
Host and narrator, Moyers: The Public Mind, PBS, 1989
Host, The Power of the Past with Bill Moyers: Florence, PBS, 1990
Host, Moyers: A Gathering of Men, PBS, 1990
Host, From D-Day to the Rhine with Bill Moyers, PBS, 1990
Host, Amazing Grace with Bill Moyers, PBS, 1990
The Man Who Beat the Blacklist ... John Henry Faulk, PBS, 1990
The Presidency, the Press, and the People, PBS, 1990
Living in America, 1991
Host, Moyers: Beyond Hate, PBS, 1991
Host, All Our Children with Bill Moyers, ABC, 1991
Songs Are Free with Bernice Reagon and Bill Moyers (also known asSongs Are Free), PBS, 1991
Host, Moyers: Spirit and Nature, PBS, 1991
Host, Moyers: Oren Lyons the Faithkeeper, PBS, 1991
Host, Moyers: Facing Hate with Elie Wiesel, PBS, 1991
Host, Moyers: Circle of Recovery, PBS, 1991
Host, Moyers: Twenty Years of Listening to America, PBS, 1991
Host, God in History, 1992
The Alistair Cooke Salute, 1992
Host, Moyers: Hate on Trial, PBS, 1992
Host, Moyers: Minimum Wages: The New Economy, PBS, 1992
Host, Families First with Bill Moyers (also known as Moyer/Families First), PBS, 1992
Host, Bill Moyers' Journal: The New Holy War, PBS, 1993
Host, Healing and the Mind with Bill Moyers, PBS, 1993
Host, Bill Moyers' Journal: Bullish on America, PBS, 1993
Host, Bill Moyers' Journal: Janet Reno, PBS, 1993
Host, Bill Moyers' Journal: A Life Together, PBS, 1993
The American Television Awards, ABC, 1993
Host, The 51st Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Awards, PBS, 1993
Host, The Great Health Care Debate with Bill Moyers, PBS, 1994
Host, Bill Moyers' Journal: Pure Pete Seeger, PBS, 1994
Host, Bill Moyers' Journal: Presenting Mr. Frederick Douglass, PBS, 1994
Host, Bill Moyers' Journal: Poet Laureate Rita Dove, PBS, 1994
Host, Bill Moyers' Journal: Money Talks (also known as Bill Moyers' Journal: The Price of Admission), PBS, 1994
Host, What Can We Do about Violence? A Bill Moyers Special, PBS, 1995
The Wisdom of Faith with Huston Smith: A Bill Moyers Special, PBS,1995
Genesis, PBS, 1996

The 11th Annual Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Hall of Fame, CBS, 1996
Bill T. Jones: Still/Here with Bill Moyers, PBS, 1997
Host, Bill Moyers in Conversation with Sister Wendy, PBS, 1997
Washington's Other Scandal, PBS, 1998
Host, Moyers on Addiction: Close to Home, PBS, 1998
The Mythology of Star Wars with George Lucas and Bill Moyers, PBS,1999
Justice for Sale, PBS, 1999
Host/correspondent, Free Speech for Sale (documentary; also knownas Free Speech for Sale, a Bill Moyers Special), 1999
Host, Fooling with Words with Bill Moyers, PBS, 1999
Host, Facing the Truth with Bill Moyers, PBS, 1999
Host, Archbishop Desmond Tutu with Bill Moyers, PBS, 1999
Host, An American Love Story Update with Bill Moyers, PBS, 1999
Host, Surviving the Good Times: A Moyers Report, PBS, 2000
Narrator, Srebrenica: A Cry from the Grave, PBS, 2000
Alfred I. Dupont/Columbia University Awards in Television and Radio Journalism, PBS, 2000
Correspondent, Trade Secrets: A Moyers Report, PBS, 2001
Anchor, Looking for Answers, PBS, 2001
Host, Bill Moyers Reports: Earth on Edge, PBS, 2001
Correspondent, America Responds: A Special Report, PBS, 2001
Host (New York City), America Responds: A National Conversation, PBS, 2001
George Lucas: Creating an Empire, Arts and Entertainment, 2002
Host, Bill Moyers Reports: Trading Democracy, PBS, 2002
Episodic
"The Last Ballot," Ourstory, PBS, 1975
"The World Turned Upside Down," Ourstory, PBS, 1975
"The Peach Gang," Ourstory, PBS, 1975
"The Queen's Destiny," Ourstory, PBS, 1976
Sunday Morning, CBS, c. 1985
Correspondent, "Global Dumping Ground--A Frontline Special Report," Frontline, PBS, 1990
"Edward R. Murrow: This Reporter," American Masters, PBS, 1990
Panel moderator, "Does TV Kill?," Frontline, PBS, 1995
"Faith," On Values: Talking with Peggy Noonan, PBS, 1995
Host and narrator, "Living on the Edge," Frontline, PBS, 1995
Television Work
Series
Editor, CBS Reports, CBS, 1976-1978
Producer, A Walk through the Twentieth Century with Bill Moyers, CBS Cable, then PBS, 1984
Producer, Bill Moyers: In Search of the Constitution, PBS, 1987
Executive editor, Moyers: God and Politics, PBS, 1987
Executive editor, Bill Moyers' World of Ideas, PBS, 1988
Executive editor, Moyers: The Power of the Word, PBS, 1989
Executive producer and executive editor, A World of Ideas with Bill Moyers, PBS, 1990
Executive producer and executive editor, Moyers: Sports for Sale (also known as The Tarnished Trophy with Bill Moyers), PBS, 1991
Executive editor, Moyers: The Arab World, PBS, 1991
Executive editor, Listening to America with Bill Moyers, PBS, 1992
Executive editor, Genesis: A Living Conversation, PBS, 1996
Executive editor, Sounds of Poetry with Bill Moyers, PBS, 1999
Executive editor, NOW with Bill Moyers, PBS, 2002
Television Executive Editor
Miniseries
Moyers: Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth, PBS, 1987
The Language of Life with Bill Moyers, PBS, 1995
On Our Owns Terms: Moyers on Dying in America, PBS, 2000
Specials
Whose America Is It?, 1985
The Vanishing Family: Crisis in Black America, CBS, 1986
Campaign: Promises! Promises!, PBS, 1988
Moyers: Facing Evil, PBS, 1988
Campaign: The Prime-Time President, 1988
Moyers: The Public Mind, PBS, 1989
The Power of the Past with Bill Moyers: Florence, PBS, 1990
(And executive producer) Moyers: A Gathering of Men, PBS, 1990
(And executive producer) From D-Day to the Rhine with Bill Moyers,PBS, 1990
(And executive producer) Amazing Grace with Bill Moyers, PBS, 1990
The Man Who Beat the Blacklist ... John Henry Faulk, PBS, 1990
Moyers: Beyond Hate, PBS, 1991
All Our Children with Bill Moyers, ABC, 1991
Songs Are Free with Bernice Reagon and Bill Moyers, PBS, 1991
Moyers: Spirit and Nature, PBS, 1991
Moyers: Oren Lyons the Faithkeeper, PBS, 1991
Moyers: Facing Hate with Elie Wiesel, PBS, 1991
Moyers: Circle of Recovery, PBS, 1991
Moyers: Twenty Years of Listening to America, PBS, 1991
Moyers: Hate on Trial, PBS, 1992
Moyers: Minimum Wages, PBS, 1992
Families First with Bill Moyers (also known as Moyers: FamiliesFirst), PBS, 1992
Bill Moyers' Journal: The New Holy War, PBS, 1993
Healing and the Mind with Bill Moyers, PBS, 1993
Bill Moyers' Journal: Bullish on America, PBS, 1993
Bill Moyers' Journal: Janet Reno, PBS, 1993
Bill Moyers' Journal: A Life Together, PBS, 1993
The Great Health Care Debate with Bill Moyers, PBS, 1994
Bill Moyers' Journal: Pure Pete Seeger, PBS, 1994
Bill Moyers' Journal: Presenting Mr. Frederick Douglass, PBS, 1994
Bill Moyers' Journal: Poet Laureate Rita Dove, PBS, 1994
Bill Moyers' Journal: Money Talks (also known as Bill Moyers' Journal: The Price of Admission), PBS, 1994
What Can We Do about Violence? A Bill Moyers Special, PBS, 1994
The Wisdom of Faith with Huston Smith: A Bill Moyers Special, PBS,1996
Bill T. Jones: Still/Here with Bill Moyers, PBS, 1997
Moyers on Addiction: Close to Home, PBS, 1998
The Mythology of Star Wars with George Lucas and Bill Moyers, PBS,1999
Free Speech for Sale: A Bill Moyers Special, 1999
Fooling with Words with Bill Moyers, PBS, 1999
Archbishop Desmond Tutu with Bill Moyers, PBS, 1999
Surviving the Good Times: A Moyers Report, PBS, 2000
Bill Moyers Reports: Earth on Edge, PBS, 2001
Bill Moyers Reports: Trading Democracy, PBS, 2002
Television Editor
Specials
Fooling with Words, PBS, 1999
Television Work
Episodic
Executive editor, "Global Dumping Ground--A Frontline Special Report," Frontline, PBS, 1990
Also worked as editorial producer, "The Mystery of Chi," Healing and the Mind with Bill Moyers, PBS.
WRITINGS
Television Series
Creativity with Bill Moyers, PBS, 1982
A Walk through the Twentieth Century with Bill Moyers, CBS Cable,then PBS, 1984
Bill Moyers: In Search of the Constitution, PBS, 1987
Moyers: The Power of the Word, PBS, 1989
Moyers: Sports for Sale (also known as The Tarnished Trophy with Bill Moyers), PBS, 1991
Television Miniseries
Moyers: Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth, PBS, 1987
"Living with Dying" and "A Time to Change," On Our Own Terms: Moyers on Dying in America, PBS, 2000
Television Specials
Big Gamble in Atlantic City, 1986
Campaign: Promises! Promises!, PBS, 1988
Moyers: Facing Evil, PBS, 1988
The Power of the Past with Bill Moyers: Florence, PBS, 1990
Moyers: Beyond Hate, PBS, 1991
All Our Children with Bill Moyers, ABC, 1991
Moyers: Hate on Trial, PBS, 1992
Moyers: Minimum Wages: The New Economy, PBS, 1992
Families First with Bill Moyers (also known as Moyers/FamiliesFirst), PBS, 1992
What Can We Do about Violence?, 1994
Genesis, PBS, 1996
Washington's Other Scandal, PBS, 1998
Justice for Sale, PBS, 1999
Surviving the Good Times: A Moyers Report, PBS, 2000
Trade Secrets: A Moyers Report, PBS, 2001
Bill Moyers Reports: Earth on Edge, PBS, 2001
Bill Moyers Reports: Trading Democracy, PBS, 2002
Television Episodes
(With Tom Spain) "The Aliens," CBS Reports, CBS, 1977
(With Spain) "The Fire Next Door," CBS Reports, CBS, 1977, updatedand rebroadcast, 1978
(With Janet Roach) "Into the Mouths of Babes," CBS Reports, CBS, 1978
Marshall, Texas, Marshall, Texas, PBS, 1984
Other
Listening to America: A Traveler Rediscovers His Country, HarpersMagazine Press (New York), 1971
Moyers: Report from Philadelphia; The Constitutional Convention of 1787, Ballantine (New York), 1987
The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis, Seven Locks (Cabin John, MD), 1988
(With Joseph Campbell) The Power of Myth, Doubleday (New York), 1988
The World of Ideas: Conversations with Thoughtful Men and Women aboutAmerican Life Today and the Ideas Shaping Our Future, Doubleday, 1989
Global Dumping Ground: The International Traffic in Hazardous Waste, Seven Locks, 1990
A World of Ideas II: Public Opinions from Private Citizens, Doubleday, 1990
Healing and the Mind, Doubleday, 1993
Fooling with Words: A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft, Morrow, 1999

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Books

Contemporary Heroes and Heroines, Book IV, Gale Group, 2000
Encyclopedia of World Biography, Gale Research, 1998
Newsmakers 1991, Issue Cumulation, Gale Research, 1991

Periodicals

American Film, June, 1990, p. 17
American Heritage, December, 1983
Broadcasting, November 19, 1984
Chicago Tribune, March 28, 1988
Christian Science Monitor, February 20, 1981
Columbia Journalism Review, November/December 2001, p. 76
Daily News (New York), May 13, 1974; June 26, 1981
Los Angeles Times, April 20, 1987
Modern Maturity, October/November, 1993, p. 68
Newsweek, March 1, 1965; April 15, 1974; October 21, 1974; July 4,1983
New York Times, June 25, 1983; January 8, 1984; August 14, 1985; September 9, 1986; January 14, 1987; May 5, 1987; September 12, 1988; October31, 1988; May 14, 1989
People Weekly, January 26, 1976; February 22, 1982; August 1, 1983
Saturday Review, February, 1982
Time, October 28, 1996, p. 31
Variety, January 21, 1987
Village Voice, January 20, 1982

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