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Morley Safer
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Morley Safer (November 8, 1931 – May 19, 2016) was a Canadian-American broadcast journalist, reporter, and correspondent for CBS News. He was best known for his long tenure on the…
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Morley Safer (November 8, 1931 – May 19, 2016) was a Canadian-American broadcast journalist, reporter, and correspondent for CBS News. He was best known for his long tenure on the news magazine 60 Minutes, whose cast he joined in 1970 after its second year on television. He was the longest-serving reporter on 60 Minutes. During his 60-year career as a broadcast journalist, Safer received numerous awards, including 12 Emmys, a Lifetime Achievement Emmy from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, three Overseas Press Awards, three Peabody Awards, two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, and the Paul White Award from the Radio-Television News Directors Association. In 2009, Safer donated his papers to the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin. Jeff Fager, executive producer of 60 Minutes, said "Morley has had a brilliant career as a reporter and as one of the most significant figures in CBS News history, on our broadcast and in many of our lives. Morley's curiosity, his sense of adventure and his superb writing, all made for exceptional work done by a remarkable man." He died a week after announcing his retirement from 60 Minutes.
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2026
Dolly Parton: An American Original – Special Edition of 20/20
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2026
Dolly Parton – An American Icon
Movie Self - Interviewer (archive footage)
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2024
Jim Henson Idea Man
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2021
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
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2019
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2019
Where's My Roy Cohn?
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2019
No One Saw a Thing
TV show CBS 60 minutes
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2019
Mike Wallace Is Here
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2018
Andre the Giant
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2017
Agnelli
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2015
Kurt Vonnegut’s Indianapolis: A Writer’s Roots
Movie Self (Archive Footage)
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2015
Traficant: The Congressman of Crimetown
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2015
Being Canadian
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2014
The Sturgeon Queens
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2010
Morning Glory
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2005
The Colbert Report
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2000
The American President
TV show John Adams
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1997
Exodus 1947
Movie Narrator (voice)
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1988
American Experience
TV show Narrator (voice)
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1986
A Wing and a Prayer – The Story of Knock Airport
Movie Self - CBS '60 Minutes' Reporter
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1986
The Canadian Conspiracy
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1982
Don't Touch That Dial!
Movie Reporter
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1982
Late Night with David Letterman
TV show Self - Guest
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1974
The Public's Right to Know
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1968
60 Minutes
TV show Self - Correspondent
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1967
Morley Safer’s Vietnam: A Personal Report
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