Frank McGee was born on September 12, 1915 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor, known for NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams (1970), Today (1952) and The American Revolution of '63 (1963). He died on April 17, 1974 in New York City, New York, USA.
Frank McGee was a reporter for NBC News starting with the mid-1950s when he worked at the Montgomery, Alabama bureau. He, along with Chet Huntley and WNBC-TV reporter Bill Ryan broke the news to the American public of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Friday, November 22, 1963 - mostly repeating the words of field reporter Robert McNeil via telephone from Dallas, due to an audio fault in the New York studio. From 1971 until his death due to bone marrow cancer in 1974 (age 58) he served as co-host with Barbara Walters of the NBC Today show. A traditional, strait-laced, old-fashioned reporter and newscaster, McGee, like his contemporaries, had a great talent for descriptive language, painting visual pictures of events in the news, in the tradition of Edward R. Murrow. He also served as newscaster for the landmark NBC Radio program "Monitor" in the early 1960s.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
The DuPont Show of the Week
1963-1964
TV Series
Narrator
Journey to Understanding
1959
TV Movie
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Give Me the Banjo
2011
Documentary
Himself
Today
1972-1973
TV Series
Himself - Host
NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt
1970
TV Series
Himself - Co-Anchor (1970-1971)
The JFK Conspiracy: The Case of Jim Garrison
1967
TV Movie documentary
Host (NBC News)
NBC White Paper
1966
TV Series documentary
Himself
Frank McGee Report
1965
TV Series
Himself
The American Revolution of '63
1963
TV Movie
Himself - Host / Narrator
The DuPont Show of the Week
1963
TV Series
Himself
Actuality Specials
1962
TV Series documentary
The Jack Paar Tonight Show
1960-1962
TV Series
Himself / Himself - Commentator
The Tonight Show
1962
TV Series
Himself - Newscaster
The Challenge of Ideas
1961
Documentary short
Himself - Narrator
Here and Now
1961
TV Series documentary
Himself - Commentator
1960 Presidential Debates
1960
TV Series
Himself - Panelist / Himself - Moderator
World Wide '60
1960
TV Series
Himself - Host
NBC News
1940
TV Series
Himself - Correspondent
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Seventies
2015
TV Series documentary
Himself - NBC News
The Sixties
2014
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself - NBC News
American Experience
2010
TV Series documentary
Himself - NBC News Anchor
Double Take
2009
Documentary
Himself - TV Newsman (uncredited)
Sputnik Fever
2007
Documentary
Himself (uncredited)
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
1987
TV Movie documentary
Himself - NBC Newsman
Known for movies
NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (1970) as Himself - Co-Anchor (1970-1971)
Today (1972-1973) as Himself - Host
The American Revolution of '63 (1963) as Himself - Host / Narrator
The JFK Conspiracy: The Case of Jim Garrison (1967) as Host (NBC News)
$8 Million
