Edward R. Murrow Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Edward R. Murrow Template:Post-nominals (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow; April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965) was an American broadcast journalist. He first came to prominence with a series of radio news broadcasts during World War II, which were followed by millions of listeners in the United States.Fellow journalists Eric Sevareid, Ed Bliss, Bill Downs, Dan Rather, and Alexander Kendrick considered Murrow one of journalism's greatest figures, noting his honesty and integrity in delivering the news.A pioneer of television news broadcasting, Murrow produced a series of TV news reports that helped lead to the censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy.
Dewey Roscoe Murrow, Lacey Roscoe Murrow, Roscoe Jr
Awards
Peabody Award, Primetime Emmy Award for Most Outstanding Personality, Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album, Grammy Hall of Fame, Golden Globe Award for Television Achievement, Primetime Emmy Award for Best News Commentator Or Analyst, Primetime Emmy Award for Best News Commentary
Nominations
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing Achievement In The Documentary Field
TV Shows
See It Now, Person to Person, The Lost Class of '59, Small World
Star Sign
Taurus
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Trademark
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Signed off every radio show with "Good Night, and Good Luck"
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Quote
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[about television] The instrument can teach, it can illuminate. Yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise, it is merely lights and wires in a box.
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"Dear Sir or Madam: You may be right." This was Murrow's standard postcard reply to any and all critics who wrote to him.
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Fact
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He was awarded 2 Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Radio at 6263 Hollywood Boulevard and for Television at 6416 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
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A chain smoker who by his own admission could not go for thirty minutes without lighting up, he died from lung cancer two years after an operation to remove his left lung, at the age of 57.
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His last broadcast was as a participant on the program "Farewell to Studio Nine," a CBS Radio tribute to the historic CBS broadcast facility upon its closure. The program aired July 25, 1964.
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Other honors he earned in his lifetime include the 1964 award from the Society of the Family of Man; two New York Newspaper Guild awards (1954, 1955); the Russwurm Award from the American Newspaper Publishers Association; the Freedom House Award (1954); two Headliners Club awards; the National Association of Broadcasters Industry Service Award (1962); the Southwest Journalism Forum award (1953); the Adult Education Award from the New School of New York (1951); the Robert E. Sherwood Television Award (1957); and the Louis Lyons Award from Harvard University (1965).
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In his career, he was honored with many awards, including the Albert Einstein Award from Brandeis University; fifteen honorary degrees (including one from his alma mater, Washington State University); nine Overseas Press Club Awards (1940, 1947, 1949 {2}, 1950, 1951, 1951, 1953, 1955); the Hillman Award (1953); the Polk Award (1951, 1952); the Grammy Award (1967, Spoken Word Album); and was a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor and an officer in the Belgian Order of Leopold.
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The Edward R. Murrow Center of Public Diplomacy was established at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, in 1965.
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In 1962, He delivered the commencement address at his alma mater, Washington State University, and was given the Distinguished Alumnus Award. In his speech he spoke of US-Soviet relations and said he did not think war was inevitable.
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He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon Johnson as he left his post as director of the US Information Agency in 1964, and he also received an honorary knighthood by the British government in 1965.
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Every year, Washington State University hosts The Murrow Symposium, named in his honor.
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Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors." Volume 103, pp. 355-356. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Co., 1982.
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Keith Olbermann uses his signature sign-off, "And so good night, and good luck," in tribute to Murrow's work.
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His son is named Casey.
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First ever recipient of the prestigious Connor Award, distributed by the Phi Alpha Tau fraternity out of Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Perhaps the most-honored graduate of Washington State University. The Communications building is named in his honor (The Murrow Center), as is the Edward R. Murrow School of Communication (which became The Murrow College of Communication in 2009). Though he was indeed born in North Carolina, he grew up in western Washington state.
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Edward R. Murrow was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1988.
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Pictured on a 29¢ US commemorative postage stamp issued 21 January 1994.
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Murrow's public attacks on Senator Joseph McCarthy were prompted by the suicide of Murrow's friend, former State Department official Laurence Duggan, whom had been accused of being a spy for the Soviet Union. Responding to Murrow, McCarthy challenged him to debate William F. Buckley about Communists within the U.S. Government; Murrow refused. Decrypted cables and archived documents later confirmed that Duggan was, in fact, a Soviet agent.
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His program See It Now (1951), a television version of his radio program "Hear It Now," was the first television news program to use the technique of taking its viewers away from the main studio to remote locations.
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Radio and TV news correspondent.
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
CBS Reports
1959-1960
TV Series documentary producer - 3 episodes
Small World
1958-1960
TV Series producer - 57 episodes
Person to Person
1953-1959
TV Series documentary producer - 247 episodes
Montgomery Speaks His Mind
1959
producer
The Lost Class of '59
1959
producer
See It Now
TV Series documentary producer - 187 episodes, 1951 - 1958 co-producer - 1 episode, 1955
Satchmo the Great
1957
Documentary co-producer
Years of Crisis
1953-1956
TV Series producer - 3 episodes
One Plane, One Bomb
1953
Short producer
Editor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Montgomery Speaks His Mind
1959
The Lost Class of '59
1959
See It Now
1951-1958
TV Series documentary 121 episodes
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
CBS Reports
1960
TV Series documentary written by - 1 episode
Montgomery Speaks His Mind
1959
The Lost Class of '59
1959
Satchmo the Great
1957
Documentary written by
See It Now
TV Series documentary 6 episodes, 1953 written by - 61 episodes, 1953 - 1955
One Plane, One Bomb
1953
Short script
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Around the World in Eighty Days
1956
Prologue Narrator
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
Kojak: The Belarus File
1985
TV Movie voice
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Sinatra: All or Nothing at All
2015
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself
Friends of Mr. Churchill
1965
TV Movie
Himself
Howard K. Smith
1962-1963
TV Series
Himself - Guest
Eyewitness to History
1962
TV Series documentary
Himself - Guest
Issues and Answers
1962
TV Series
Himself - Guest
The Challenge of Ideas
1961
Documentary short
Himself - Narrator
CBS Reports
1959-1961
TV Series documentary
Himself - Reporter / Himself - - Host
Meet the Press
1961
TV Series
Himself - Guest
Years of Crisis
1950-1960
TV Series
Himself - - Moderator / Himself - Host
Small World
1958-1960
TV Series
Himself - - Moderator
Sink the Bismarck!
1960
Himself
Person to Person
1953-1959
TV Series documentary
Himself - Host / Himself - - Host / Himself
Montgomery Speaks His Mind
1959
Himself
The Lost Class of '59
1959
Himself
The Ed Sullivan Show
1955-1958
TV Series
Himself
See It Now
1951-1958
TV Series documentary
Himself - - Host / Himself - Host / Anchor / ...
Studio One in Hollywood
1957
TV Series
Himself / Narrator
Satchmo the Great
1957
Documentary
Himself - Reporter / Host
The Jackie Gleason Show
1957
TV Series
Himself
World in Crisis
1956
TV Movie
Himself
Miracle in Java
1956
Short
Himself - Narrator
Panorama
1955
TV Series documentary
Himself - Interviewee
Producers' Showcase
1954
TV Series
Himself
Resources for Freedom
1954
TV Movie
Himself - - Narrator
The Paul Winchell Show
1953
TV Series
Himself
One Plane, One Bomb
1953
Short
Himself - Narrator
The Ford 50th Anniversary Show
1953
TV Movie
Himself
What's My Line?
1952
TV Series
Himself - Mystery Guest
Survival Under Atomic Attack
1951
Documentary short
Narrator (voice)
Is Everybody Listening?
1947
Documentary short
Newscaster
Fire of London
1945
Documentary short
Himself
The Eighty Days
1944
Documentary
Himself - Commentary
Dover
1942
Documentary short
The Heart of Britain
1941
Documentary short
Himself - Commentary
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
60 Minutes
1975-2016
TV Series documentary
Himself - Reporter (segment "Fidel Castro") / Himself - Reporter / Himself
Sinatra: All or Nothing at All
2015
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself
Listen to Me Marlon
2015
Documentary
Himself (uncredited)
American Experience
2005-2013
TV Series documentary
Himself - Television Interviewer / Himself
Love, Marilyn
2012
Documentary
Himself
Ethel
2012
Documentary
Himself
The Real American: Joe McCarthy
2011
Documentary
Himself (uncredited)
The Naked Archaeologist
2010
TV Series documentary
Himself
Deconstructing Dad: The Music, Machines and Mystery of Raymond Scott
2010
Documentary
Himself
Huxley on Huxley
2009
Documentary
Himself
American Masters
1990-2009
TV Series documentary
Himself
True Bond
2007
TV Movie documentary
Himself - London 1941
Sputnik Fever
2007
Documentary
Himself (uncredited)
Brando
2007
TV Movie documentary
Himself
The Kid Stays in the Picture
2002
Documentary
Himself
Roots of the Cuban Missile Crisis
2001
Video documentary
Himself
Jazz
2001
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself (interviews Duke Ellington) (uncredited)
Jonas Salk: Personally Speaking
1999
Documentary short
Himself - Interviews Jonas Salk (uncredited)
The Century: America's Time
1999
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself ("Civilians at War, 1941-1945")
Modern Marvels
1999
TV Series documentary
Himself
Television: The First Fifty Years
1999
Video documentary
Himself
Murphy Brown
1998
TV Series
Himself
We Were There: CBS News at 50
1998
TV Special
Himself
Cronkite Remembers
1997
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself (signing off his television program) (uncredited)
Edward R. Murrow: The Best of 'Person to Person'
1993
Video
Himself
This Reporter
1990
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself
The Nazis: Blitzkrieg
1989
Video documentary
Himself
Thomas Hart Benton
1988
TV Movie
Himself
Ronnie Dearest: The Lost Episodes
1988
Video documentary short
Himself
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
1987
Documentary
Himself
Time After Time
1979
Himself (uncredited)
The Movie Orgy
1968
Documentary
Himself - Unidentified Program (uncredited)
Plunder
1965
TV Series
Himself
CBS Reports
1963
TV Series documentary
Himself - - Reporter
The Ed Sullivan Show
1958
TV Series
Himself
War Comes to America
1945
Documentary
Himself
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
2011
OFTA TV Hall of Fame
Online Film & Television Association
Actors and Actresses
1991
Eddie
American Cinema Editors, USA
Best Edited Documentary
This Reporter (1990)
1966
Trustees Award
Primetime Emmy Awards
Who brought together the highest qualities of broadcasting and journalism so that he became a ... More
1960
Star on the Walk of Fame
Walk of Fame
Radio
On 8 February 1960. At 6263 Hollywood Blvd.
1960
Golden Globe
Golden Globes, USA
Television Achievement
1959
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Best News Commentator or Analyst
1958
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Best News Commentary
See It Now (1951)
1957
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Best News Commentator
1956
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Best News Commentator or Reporter
1954
Special Award
Peabody Awards
1954
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Most Outstanding Personality
1952
Peabody Award
Peabody Awards
See It Now (1951)
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1961
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Writing Achievement in the Documentary Field
$100,000
