Biography
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, the most watched and most profitable program in television history.
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.
Filmography
all 24
Movies 16
self 16
TV Shows 8
Narrator 2
Voice 1
Writer 1
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time (2021)
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn (2019)
Where's My Roy Cohn? (2019)
No One Saw a Thing (2019)
Mike Wallace Is Here (2019)
Andre the Giant (2018)
Agnelli (2017)
Kurt Vonnegut’s Indianapolis: A Writer’s Roots (2015)
Traficant: The Congressman of Crimetown (2015)
Being Canadian (2015)
The Sixties (2014)
The Sturgeon Queens (2014)
Morning Glory (2010)
The Colbert Report (2005)
Reporting America at War (2003)
The American President (2000)
Exodus 1947 (1997)
Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud (1996)
20th Century with Mike Wallace (1995)
Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music (1990)
American Experience (1988)
The Canadian Conspiracy (1985)
CBS Reports: Don't Touch That Dial! (1982)
60 Minutes (1968)
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GenderMale
Birthday1931-11-08
Deathday2016-05-19 (84 years old)
Birth PlaceToronto, Canada
ReligionJudaism
CitizenshipsUnited States of America, Canada
ResidencesManhattan, United States of America
AwardsPeabody Awards, Overseas Press Club, George Polk Award, Great Immigrants, Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, Radio Television Digital News Association, Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Emmy Award
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