Morley Safer
Actor
Born November 8, 1931 in 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 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.
Filmography
Jim Henson Idea Man
Self (archive footage)
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
Self
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
Self (archive footage)
Where's My Roy Cohn?
Self (archive footage)
No One Saw a Thing
CBS 60 minutes
Mike Wallace Is Here
Self (archive footage)
Andre the Giant
Self (archive footage)
Agnelli
Self (archive footage)
Kurt Vonnegut’s Indianapolis: A Writer’s Roots
Self (Archive Footage)
Traficant: The Congressman of Crimetown
Self (archive footage)
Being Canadian
Self
The Sturgeon Queens
Self
Morning Glory
Self
The Colbert Report
Self
The American President
John Adams
Exodus 1947
Narrator (voice)
Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music
Self
American Experience
Narrator (voice)
A Wing and a Prayer – The Story of Knock Airport
Self - CBS '60 Minutes' Reporter
The Canadian Conspiracy
Self
Don't Touch That Dial!
Reporter
Late Night with David Letterman
Self - Guest
The Public's Right to Know
Self
60 Minutes
Self - Correspondent