Robert McNamara

Acting • 1916-06-09 • San Francisco, California, USA

Robert Strange McNamara (June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009) was an American business executive and the eighth United States Secretary of Defense, serving from 1961 to 1968 under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.

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2025
Turning Point: The Vietnam WarTV
Self (archive footage) • 5 episodes
★ 7.2
2023
The Lies That Led America To War In VietnamFilm
Himself (archive footage)
2019
Laboratory GreeceFilm
Self (archive footage)
★ 8.0
2017
The Vietnam WarTV
Self - Politician (archive footage) • 1 episodes
★ 8.3
2013
JFKTV
Self (archive footage) • 1 episodes
★ 9.0
2011
The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William ColbyFilm
Self - Secretary of Defense (voice) (archive footage)
★ 6.2
2009
The Most Dangerous Man in AmericaFilm
Self (archive footage)
★ 7.4
2005
U.S. Strategic Nuclear PolicyFilm
Self
2004
No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear ThreatFilm
Self
★ 5.8
2003
The Fog of WarFilm
Self
★ 7.7
2002
Cold War Submarine Adventures: Cuban Missile Crisis - Secret SubsFilm
Himself - Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense 1961-1968
★ 8.0
2002
USS Liberty: Dead in the WaterFilm
Self (archive footage)
★ 8.0
1998
Les Hommes de la Maison BlancheTV
Himself • 3 episodes
1988
American ExperienceTV
Self (archive footage) • 1 episodes
★ 6.5
1983
Vietnam: A Television HistoryTV
Self (archive footage) • 1 episodes
★ 9.5
1983
Vietnam: A Television HistoryTV
Self • 1 episodes
★ 9.5
1979
The War at HomeFilm
Self (archive footage)
★ 7.4
1967
Death on a Rainy DayFilm
Himself - 1960-1968 Secretary of Defense (archive footage) (uncredited)
★ 6.5
1965
Why Vietnam?Film
Self
★ 7.0
1963
World in ActionTV
★ 7.0