Walter Cronkite Net Worth
Walter Cronkite Net Worth is
$9 Million
Walter Cronkite Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years (1962–81). During the heyday of CBS News in the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" after being so named in an opinion poll. He reported many events from 1937 to 1981, including bombings in World War II; the Nuremberg trials; combat in the Vietnam War; Watergate; the Iran Hostage Crisis; and the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, civil rights pioneer Martin Luther King, Jr., and Beatles musician John Lennon. He was also known for his extensive coverage of the U.S. space program, from Project Mercury to the Moon landings to the Space Shuttle. He was the only non-NASA recipient of a Moon-rock award. Cronkite is well known for his departing catchphrase "And that's the way it is," followed by the date on which the appearance aired. | Full Name | Walter Cronkite |
| Date Of Birth | November 4, 1916, Saint Joseph, Missouri, United States |
| Died | July 17, 2009, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States |
| Place Of Birth | St. Joseph, Missouri, USA |
| Height | 6' (1.83 m) |
| Profession | Actor, Editorial Department, Producer |
| Education | University of Texas at Austin, San Jacinto High School |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Mary Elizabeth Maxwell Cronkite |
| Children | Walter Leland Cronkite III, Kathy Cronkite, Nancy Elizabeth Cronkite |
| Parents | Walter Leland Cronkite, Helen Lena Cronkite |
| Awards | Peabody Award, Presidential Medal of Freedom, TCA Career Achievement Award, Nierenberg Prize |
| Nominations | Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer In An Animated Program, Primetime Emmy Award for Best News Commentator Or Analyst, TV Land "Hey! It's...!" Award, Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Special, TV Land Most Memorable Male Guest Star in a Comedy as Himself Award |
| Movies | We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story, The U.S. vs. John Lennon, JFK: 3 Shots That Changed America, The Dream Is Alive, For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots, SS United States: Lady in Waiting, Chelsea on the Rocks, S.O.S. Planet: IMAX, Man on the Moon with Walter Cronkite, G.I. Joe: E... |
| TV Shows | CBS Evening News, You Are There, The Twentieth Century, Liberty's Kids, Air Power, The Sixties, Great Performances, Walter Cronkite's Universe, It's News to Me, Man of the Week, The Morning Show, In Celebration of US, The Learning Channel's Great Books, Wolf Blitzer Reports, Two for the Money, The L... |
| Star Sign | Scorpio |
| # | Trademark |
|---|---|
| 1 | Always closed his newscasts by saying "And that's the way it is" |
| # | Quote |
|---|---|
| 1 | Twenty-four hours after I told CBS News that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday I was already regretting it and I've regretted it every day since. It's too good a job for me to have given it up the way that I did. |
| 2 | I learned at an early age how to pontificate even when wrong. |
| 3 | They're still playing our song and have been for over 60 years. [About his wife Betsy] |
| 4 | In broadcasting, I learned the hard way how prepared you need to be to be spontaneous. |
| 5 | I am probably not that different from most reporters, highly competitive, always determined to get that big story. The big story is always the one that's just a little bit out of reach. |
| 6 | I firmly believe in the necessity of military censorship but there is considerable danger to the democracy when in the guise of military censorship our government engages in political censorship. |
| 7 | I got along pretty well with Nixon. Whenever he promised me an interview he delivered and I didn't make his famed "Enemies List". I'm still sort of ambivalent about that. |
| 8 | I only met Martin Luther King on a few occasions but I was always struck by the obvious force, the power of his character which is clearly what the Civil Rights movement needed at that point. |
| 9 | [The day President Harding died] "The Kansas City Times had a big picture of President Harding with a black border around it. So I ran down the street to my best friend's house and I said 'Alfred, take a look because that's the last picture you'll ever see of President Harding'. I don't know where I got that crazy idea but it proved early in life that I could pontificate even when wrong." |
| 10 | [Looking back at the 20th Century] "I had a pretty good seat at the parade. I was lucky enough to have been born at the right time to see most of this remarkable century." |
| 11 | [About announcing President Kennedy's death] "At that moment I teared up, I just had a little trouble getting the words out." |
| 12 | [About Oliver Stone's JFK (1991)] Stone combines real and fictional footage in a very clever way that completely obliterates the truth. He uses my announcement of the President's death to provide an air of reality that he avoids for the rest of the picture. His preposterous theory is that top echelons of the United States government committed the Kennedy murder in order to put Lyndon Johnson in the White House. That work of fiction is dangerous, it seriously misleads a whole generation of Americans who were not alive at that time. |
| 13 | [About President Kennedy] "Kennedy could be as charming in public as he had been in private. But he had another side, a certain attitude of superiority, an arrogance that I found disturbing." |
| 14 | [About President Eisenhower] "Eisenhower made political enemies of course but he never lost the aura of the war hero. In doing his memoirs for television with me, he revealed a great deal more detailed knowledge of the arcane decisions of his administration than the press generally gave him credit for." |
| 15 | [About President Truman] "Truman never shucked the image of a country boy in the big city. But in his self-confident righteousness, he impressed you with the courage of a lion" |
| 16 | [About FDR] "With his radio talks and his fireside chats he brought all Americans into the White House. At the times I saw him, at his informal news conferences, he could be tough with questioning reporters but he usually ended the exchange with a wide grin or with a hearty laugh. He seemed to say, in the manner of a sporting man, 'Well tried, sir'" |
| 17 | [About President Hoover] "Herbert Hoover seemed to me about as stiff in person as he was in public. A highly intelligent man, dedicated to public service who just couldn't connect with the average man" |
| 18 | [About President Reagan] "In Reagan, what you saw was what you got. Without surrendering the dignity of the office he maintained that hail-fellow comradeship of the locker room. He was fun to be with, shady stories and all." |
| 19 | [About President Carter] "Carter, I think, was the brainiest President of my time, not in political ability but intelligence that could store and recall an incredible amount of complicated material." |
| 20 | [About President Ford] "Ford was the genuine good fellow well met. He was the guy you wish you had known in college." |
| 21 | [About President Nixon] "Nixon, to me, never seemed comfortable in the Presidency. He always seemed to be acting out a rehearsed role. I thought I could see his knees knocking with stage fright" |
| 22 | [About President Johnson] "It has been said, and truthfully so, that Lyndon Johnson was larger than life. You felt in his presence that here was raw power capable of lifting great weights and crushing enemies." |
| 23 | [About the Presidents that he met] "They were all giant egos, anxious about their place in history" |
| 24 | [About President Clinton] "Clinton, I've not come to know that well, but in my one sit-down interview with him, I found him forthcoming and humorous." |
| 25 | [About George Bush] I like George Bush, he seemed to be a straight arrow, the sort you'd like to have as your lawyer or your banker or as a friend. And of course, he had Barbara. |
| 26 | Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough. [on the superficiality of television news] |
| 27 | And that's the way it is, March 6, 1981. [Sign-off line on his last night as anchor] |
| 28 | The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good. |
| 29 | It is increasingly clear that the only rational way out will be to negotiate, not as victors but as an honorable people who lived up to the pledge to defend democracy." (Cronkite's famous quote after the disastrous North Vietnamese Tet Offensive, which many say was the turning point in the Vietnam Conflict. President Lyndon Johnson, upon hearing Cronkite pull his support for further military involvement, is quoted as saying, "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost Middle America. |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | Inducted into the International Mustache Hall of Fame in 2015 (inaugural class) in the category Film & Television. |
| 2 | Release of his audiobook, "Cronkite Remembers". [2000] |
| 3 | Release of his book, "Eye on the World". [1971] |
| 4 | Undergoes quadruple bypass surgery in a New York hospital. [April 1997] |
| 5 | Release of the book, "Walter Cronkite: His Life and Times" by Doug James. [1991] |
| 6 | Release of his book, "A Reporter's Life". [1996] |
| 7 | Release of his book, "Around America: A Tour of Our Magnificent Coastline". [2001] |
| 8 | Inducted into the Hall of Famous Missourians in 1999. |
| 9 | According to Cronkite's autobiography, his mother Helen Fitzche dated Douglas MacArthur as a teenager. The future general asked her to marry him but her father would not allow it because he felt MacArthur was too old for her. Cronkite asked the General about it one night at a party and his only response was "Ah, yes. Helen Fitzche." and walked away. |
| 10 | Longtime boyfriend of Joanna Simon until his death in August, 2009. |
| 11 | When he was 16 he went to Chicago's 1933 World's Fair. He volunteered to help demonstrate an experimental version of television. |
| 12 | His ancestors had settled in New Amsterdam, the Dutch colony that became New York. |
| 13 | Some time before his death Cronkite's family reveled that he was suffering from cerebrovascular disease. |
| 14 | Moved to Houston, Texas when he was 10-years-old. Worked at the Houston Post as a copy boy, cub reporter and had a paper route. |
| 15 | Provided the voice over introduction "This is the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric". |
| 16 | Attended San Jacinto High School in Houston, Texas with Marvin Zindler. |
| 17 | Attended Lanier Junior High School in Houston, Texas. Another famous ex-student was Linda Ellerbee. |
| 18 | In 1969 when Apollo XI was going to the Moon, Cronkite was on the air 27 of the 30 hours that it took for the flight, which many in the profession called "Walter to Walter" coverage. At the moment that Neil Armstrong stepped off the ladder of the Lunar Module onto the Moon surface, Cronkite was speechless for the first time in his career. All he could say was "Wow!" and "Oh Boy!". Famous words that will live in history. |
| 19 | Has a Muppet on Sesame Street (1969) named after him, the grouch journalist "Walter Cranky". |
| 20 | On the day of the Kennedy assassination, he said the he had just come back from lunch and was standing at the teletype machine when rang a rare five bells - a bulletin. He shouted "Let's get on the air!" but getting on the air wasn't possible because the cameras had to be placed and then warmed up (after this, the networks always had a camera ready in the newsroom). He went to an audio booth just off the newsroom floor and, interrupting As the World Turns (1956), made an audio announcement over a CBS logo. It took another 20 minutes to get on camera. |
| 21 | While attending The University of Texas, one of his pastimes was acting in student plays. In one of them, he co-starred with Eli Wallach. He dropped out of UT to become a journalist. |
| 22 | Father was Walter Cronkite Sr., a dentist. Mother was Helen Cronkite who died in 1993 at the age of 101. |
| 23 | He is outspoken in his distaste for Oliver Stone's film JFK (1991). Calling the film "Oliver Stone junk" and "A dangerous work of fiction that seriously mid-leads a whole generation of Americans who were not alive at that time". |
| 24 | Is a licensed amateur (ham) radio operator with the call sign KB2GSD. |
| 25 | On March 15, 2005 he lost his wife of 64 years, Betsy, three weeks before their 65th anniversary. |
| 26 | In 1997, released his autobiography, "A Reporter's Life", which coincided with a two-hour TV special, Cronkite Remembers (1997), in which he reminisced about his years as a reporter. A week later, an eight-hour version aired on The Discovery Channel. |
| 27 | Father of Kathy Cronkite and Chip Cronkite. |
| 28 | He was of English, Scottish, German, and Dutch descent. |
| 29 | He met his wife Betsy when he was working at a radio station in Kansas City. The two were paired up to do a cosmetics commercial and married a year later. |
| 30 | He is an only child. |
| 31 | Betsy Cronkite, his wife, was working as a newspaper journalist when they met. |
| 32 | At the birth of television, he and his team at CBS practically invented the institution of the evening news program. In 1951, one of the stage managers at CBS told him to sit at the desk and do the news. Cronkite asked what he meant and the managers simply said "I don't know just do it". His idea was to first just talk to the camera like another person and organize the news stories in the same vein as the newspaper beginning with the top story and working his way down to human interest stories. |
| 33 | In 1964 he was fired from his anchorman duties at the Democratic National Convention. CBS had gotten a new president who had never worked on a presidential campaign and had definate ideas about how CBS would be covering it. It turned out to be a mess and as a result Cronkite got some of the blame so the network executives removed him from the coverage but kept him as the anchorman of the evening news. Jokingly Cronkite became buddies with the president of NBC and the people at CBS were horrified that he was being offered a job in the rival network. So when the Republican Convention rolled around Cronkite got to cover it without using the new president's tactics. |
| 34 | Father-in-law of Deborah Rush. |
| 35 | His mother Helen died in 1993 at the age of 101. |
| 36 | The very day he was born, his father immediately left the hospital and went out and voted for President Woodrow Wilson. |
| 37 | His stage name during his days in radio was Walter Wilcox. |
| 38 | His first job as a journalist was as a cub reporter for the Kansas City Times. |
| 39 | CBS asked Cronkite to come up with a signature closing line for the evening news. When he came up with "And that's the way it is", CBS was concerned that it would suggest a certain infallability. But Cronkite explained that it would fit any type of story whether it was funny or sad or ironic. |
| 40 | Attended both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions in 1928. The former was on a boy scout field trip and the latter was during a visit to his grandparents in Kansas City. |
| 41 | Makes a unique claim about his television career. When he attended 1933 World's Fair, he was present at an exhibit displaying an early example of television. At the exhibit, the attendees were allowed to sit in front of the camera and watch themselves on the screen. When Cronkite sat in front of the camera he did an improptu impression of a man he had seen playing two flutes at once. Therefore, he jokingly claims that he was definitely on television decades before his contemporaries. |
| 42 | December 2003 - Underwent surgery to repair a previously injured achilles tendon. |
| 43 | Satirized by Ray Goulding as "Walter Chronic" in Cold Turkey (1971). |
| 44 | Is the 1966 recipient of the prestigious Connor Award given by the brothers of the Phi Alpha Tau fraternity based out of Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. He is also an honorary brother of the fraternity. |
| 45 | Reported on the Nuremberg Trials of Nazi war criminals in 1945. |
| 46 | Was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1981. This is the highest honor a U.S. civilian can receive. Was the lead anchor on the CBS Evening News from 16 April 1962 until 6 March 1981. |
| 47 | Journalist since 1937; with CBS television since 1950. |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Great Decisions | 2009 | TV Series | Narrator |
| Liberty's Kids: Est. 1776 | 2002-2003 | TV Series | Benjamin Franklin George Washington |
| We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story | 1993 | Captain Neweyes (voice) | |
| Spaceship Earth | 1982 | Short | 2nd Edition Narrator - 1986-1994 (voice) |
| The VIII Winter Olympics | 1960 | TV Mini-Series | |
| Armstrong Circle Theatre | 1959 | TV Series | Narrator |
| You Are There | 1954-1956 | TV Series | Narrator / Host |
Editorial Department
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Great Books | 1993-2002 | TV Series documentary executive editor - 2 episodes | |
| Understanding | 1997-2002 | TV Series executive editor - 5 episodes | |
| The War of the Worlds: Great Books | 1994 | Video documentary executive editor | |
| CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite | 1970 | TV Series managing editor - 1 episode |
Producer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Great Books | 2000 | TV Series documentary executive producer - 1 episode | |
| Cronkite Remembers | 1997 | TV Mini-Series documentary executive producer | |
| The Cronkite Report: The Faltering Dream | 1993 | TV Movie documentary executive producer |
Writer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walter Cronkite at Large | 1987 | TV Movie | |
| Friends of Mr. Churchill | 1965 | TV Movie |
Miscellaneous
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| JFK: 3 Shots That Changed America | 2009 | TV Movie documentary off-screen voice on news bulletin - archive footage, uncredited |
Thanks
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hometown Glory | 2010 | Documentary special thanks | |
| From Pharaohs to Facebook: Egypt Today | 2009 | Documentary short very special thanks | |
| Out of the Shadows: The Man Who Was Deep Throat | 2006 | Video documentary short special thanks | |
| Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire | 2006 | Video documentary short special thanks | |
| Empire of Dreams: The Story of the 'Star Wars' Trilogy | 2004 | Video documentary special thanks | |
| The Assassination of Richard Nixon | 2004 | special thanks | |
| Thirteen Days | 2000 | special thanks | |
| The Dish | 2000 | thanks: assistance | |
| In Search of Liberty Bell 7 | 1999 | TV Movie documentary special thanks | |
| Apollo 13 | 1995 | special thanks |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biography | 1995-1999 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Las claves | 1999 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Modern Marvels | 1999 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Broadcast Journalist |
| Television: The First Fifty Years | 1999 | Video documentary | Himself / Interviewee |
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 1998 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| NY TV: By the People Who Made It - Part I & II | 1998 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Space Shuttle Discovery: John Glenn Launch | 1998 | TV Movie | Himself - Interviewer |
| War and Civilization | 1998 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself - Narrator |
| AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies | 1998 | TV Special documentary | Himself |
| Where It's At: The Rolling Stone State of the Union | 1998 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| CBS: The First 50 Years | 1998 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| We Were There: CBS News at 50 | 1998 | TV Special | Himself |
| Palisades Amusement Park, a Century of Fond Memories | 1998 | Documentary | Interviewee |
| HBO First Look | 1998 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Silicon Valley: A 100 Year Renaissance | 1998 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Narrator (voice) |
| Cold War | 1998 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
| G.I. Joe: The Ernie Pyle Story | 1998 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The 19th Annual CableACE Awards | 1997 | TV Special | Himself |
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 1997 | TV Special | Himself - Master of Ceremonies |
| 4 Little Girls | 1997 | Documentary | Himself - Special Correspondent CBS News |
| Murphy Brown | 1989-1997 | TV Series | Himself |
| Cronkite Remembers | 1997 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself - Host |
| Media Literacy: The New Basic | 1996 | Documentary | Himself |
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 1996 | TV Special documentary | Himself - Master of Ceremonies |
| The 18th Annual CableACE Awards | 1996 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter |
| The Rosie O'Donnell Show | 1996 | TV Series | Himself |
| Corwin | 1996 | TV Movie | Himself |
| The Oprah Winfrey Show | 1996 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Nuremberg Trial: War Crimes on Trial | 1996 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 1995 | TV Special | Himself - Master of Ceremonies |
| Howard Stern | 1995 | TV Series | Himself |
| The 49th Annual Tony Awards | 1995 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter: Best Revival of a Play & Regional Theatre Award |
| Naked News | 1995 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The Holocaust: In Memory of Millions | 1994 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Host |
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 1994 | TV Special | Himself - Master of Ceremonies |
| The 10th TV Academy Hall of Fame | 1994 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | 1993-1994 | TV Series | Himself |
| Victory Over Violence | 1994 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself - Host - Narrator |
| Veillées d'armes | 1994 | Documentary | Himself |
| Ape Man: The Story of Human Evolution | 1994 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Host |
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 1993 | TV Special | Himself - Master of Ceremonies |
| The Cronkite Report: The Faltering Dream | 1993 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Host |
| Bob Hope: The First 90 Years | 1993 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Late Night with David Letterman | 1992-1993 | TV Series | Himself / Himself - Guest |
| Beyond 'JFK': The Question of Conspiracy | 1992 | Documentary | Himself |
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 1992 | TV Special | Himself - Master of Ceremonies |
| Titanic: Treasure of the Deep | 1992 | Video documentary | Himself - Host |
| The Howard Stern Show | 1992 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 1991 | TV Special | Himself |
| Benny Hill: The World's Favorite Clown | 1991 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Dinosaur! | 1991 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself - Host |
| The 17th Annual People's Choice Awards | 1991 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter: Favourite News Oriented News Program |
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 1990 | TV Special | Himself - Master of Ceremonies |
| Good Morning America | 1990 | TV Series | Himself |
| Night of 100 Stars III | 1990 | TV Movie | Himself |
| Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music | 1990 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 1989 | TV Special | Himself - Master of Ceremonies |
| Who Shot President Kennedy? | 1989 | Documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| Total Panic | 1989 | TV Series | Himself |
| 50 Years of Television: A Golden Celebration | 1989 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Host |
| Later with Bob Costas | 1989 | TV Series | Himself |
| Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color | 1981-1989 | TV Series | Himself |
| Back to Neverland | 1989 | Short | Himself |
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 1988 | TV Special | Himself - Master of Ceremonies |
| Nova | 1988 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Narrator |
| Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration | 1988 | TV Special | Himself |
| Children of Apartheid | 1987 | Documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 1987 | TV Special documentary | Himself - Master of Ceremonies |
| We the People 200: The Constitutional Gala | 1987 | TV Movie | Himself - Host |
| Walter Cronkite at Large | 1987 | TV Movie | Himself - Host |
| The Global Newspaper | 1987 | Documentary | Himself - Host |
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 1986 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Master of Ceremonies |
| Liberty Weekend | 1986 | TV Special documentary | Himself - Host |
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 1985 | TV Special | Himself - Master of Ceremonies |
| The Dream Is Alive | 1985 | Documentary short | Narrator (voice) |
| Spaceflight | 1985 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 1984 | TV Movie | Himself - Master of Ceremonies |
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 1983 | TV Special documentary | Himself - Master of Ceremonies |
| World in Action | 1983 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Presenter |
| I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind | 1983 | TV Movie | Himself - Host |
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 1982 | TV Special | Himself - Master of Ceremonies |
| The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | 1982 | TV Series | Himself |
| World War II with Walter Cronkite | 1982 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 1981 | TV Special documentary | Himself - Host |
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 1980 | TV Special | Himself - Master of Ceremonies |
| Universe | 1980 | TV Series | Himself - Anchor |
| Sadat's Eternal Egypt | 1980 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Host |
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 1979 | TV Special | Himself - Master of Ceremonies |
| The 16th Annual Humanitarian Awards Dinner of National Conference of Christians and Jews | 1979 | TV Special | Himself - Honoree |
| The 31st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards | 1979 | TV Special | Himself - Winner: Governor's Award |
| The Television Annual: 1978/1979 | 1979 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite | 1962-1979 | TV Series | Himself - Anchor / Himself |
| CBS: On the Air | 1978 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself - Host |
| Super Bowl | 1976 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Dinah! | 1974-1975 | TV Series | Himself |
| Frank Sinatra: The Main Event | 1974 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Audience Member (uncredited) |
| Mary Tyler Moore | 1974 | TV Series | Himself |
| What's It All About? | 1973 | TV Series | Himself |
| AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to John Ford | 1973 | TV Special documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| You Are There | 1953-1971 | TV Series | Himself - Host - Narrator / Himself - Host |
| Louis Armstrong: 1900 - 1971 | 1971 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Host |
| CBS Reports | 1961-1971 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Reporter / Himself / Narrator |
| The David Frost Show | 1969 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Merv Griffin Show | 1969 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Man on the Moon: The Epic Journey of Apollo XI | 1969 | TV Mini-Series | Himself - Anchor |
| Captain Kangaroo | 1968 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Twenty-First Century | 1967-1968 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Host / Narrator / Himself - Narrator |
| 13 Stars for Channel 13 | 1968 | TV Movie | Himself |
| A CBS News Inquiry: The Warren Report | 1967 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| I've Got a Secret | 1966 | TV Series | Guest star |
| The Twentieth Century | 1957-1966 | TV Series documentary | Narrator / Himself - Host / Himself - Narrator / ... |
| What's My Line? | 1956-1966 | TV Series | Himself - Mystery Guest |
| The Ed Sullivan Show | 1956-1966 | TV Series | Himself |
| Friends of Mr. Churchill | 1965 | TV Movie | Himself - - Host |
| November 22nd and the Warren Report | 1964 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| CBS: The Stars' Address | 1963 | TV Movie | Himself |
| Town Meeting of the World | 1963 | TV Movie | Himself - Moderator |
| The 15th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards | 1963 | TV Special | Himself - Host |
| Eyewitness to History | 1960-1963 | TV Series documentary | Himself / Himself - Host |
| Armstrong Circle Theatre | 1961 | TV Series | Himself - Narrator |
| 1960 Presidential Debates | 1960 | TV Series | Himself - Panelist |
| Presidential Countdown | 1960 | TV Mini-Series | Himself (host / interviewer) |
| The Steve Allen Plymouth Show | 1959 | TV Series | Himself - Recipient |
| Where We Stand: 1959 | 1959 | TV Movie | Himself - - Host |
| The Incredible Turk | 1958 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Narrator |
| A Private Little Party for a Few Chums | 1957 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Playhouse 90 | 1957 | TV Series | Himself |
| Air Power | 1956-1957 | TV Series documentary | Narrator / Himself - Narrator / Himself - Host |
| Climax! | 1955 | TV Series | Himself - Narrator |
| Longines Chronoscope | 1953-1955 | TV Series | Himself - Panelist |
| The Morning Show | 1954 | TV Series | Himself - Host / Himself |
| Two for the Money | 1952 | TV Series | Quiz Authority (1955-1956) |
| Man of the Week | 1952 | TV Series | Himself - Moderator |
| It's News to Me | 1951 | TV Series | Himself (moderator; 1954) |
| Facts We Face | 1950 | TV Series | Himself - Moderator |
| The Man Who Saved the World | 2014 | Documentary | Himself |
| Phonograph Conversations | 2013 | Himself | |
| SS United States: Made in America | 2013 | Documentary | Himself |
| For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots | 2010 | TV Movie documentary voice | |
| Moon Beat | 2009 | Documentary | Himself - TV News Broadcaster |
| Walter Cronkite, America's Newsman | 2009 | TV Movie | Himself |
| Breaking News: The Collision of Journalism and Consumerism in a Democracy | 2009 | Documentary | Himself - Anchor and Managing Editor: CBS Evening News 1962-1981 |
| SS United States: Lady in Waiting | 2008 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Great Performances | 1988-2008 | TV Series | Himself - Host |
| Cronkite Commentaries | 2007 | TV Movie | Himself - Host |
| Liberty Memorial: Stories of the Great War Monument | 2007 | Video documentary | Himself |
| That's the Way It Is: Celebrating Cronkite at 90 | 2007 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Silent Wings: The American Glider Pilots of World War II | 2007 | Documentary | |
| Do Not Go Gently | 2007 | Documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| George Clooney: An American Cinematheque Tribute | 2006 | TV Movie | Himself |
| Entertainment Tonight | 2006 | TV Series | Himself |
| Borrowing Time | 2006 | Documentary | Himself |
| Görings letzte Schlacht - Das Tribunal von Nürnberg | 2006 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The U.S. vs. John Lennon | 2006 | Documentary | Himself |
| American Masters | 1990-2006 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| AFI's 100 Years... 100 Cheers: America's Most Inspiring Movies | 2006 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Toots | 2006 | Documentary | Himself |
| Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater | 2006 | Documentary | Himself |
| Texas Monthly Talks | 2006 | TV Series | Himself - Interviewee |
| 'Network': By Walter Cronkite | 2006 | Video short | Himself |
| Out of the Shadows: The Man Who Was Deep Throat | 2006 | Video documentary short | Himself - Former Anchorman, CBS News |
| Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire | 2006 | Video documentary short | Himself - Former Anchorman, CBS News |
| American Experience | 2006 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Apollo 13: The Inside Story | 2006 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - CBS Evening News Anchorman |
| The 100 Most Unexpected TV Moments | 2005 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
| Larry King Live | 2001-2005 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Shot That Shook the World | 2005 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin | 2005 | Documentary short | Himself |
| Chatham Radio: WCC the Untold Story | 2005 | Video documentary short | Narrator (voice) |
| The American Ruling Class | 2005 | Himself - Fmr. CBS News Anchorman | |
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 2004 | TV Special | Himself |
| The 100 Most Memorable TV Moments | 2004 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
| Jonathan Dimbleby | 2004 | TV Series | Himself |
| Empire of Dreams: The Story of the 'Star Wars' Trilogy | 2004 | Video documentary | Himself - Journalist |
| ESPN SportsCentury | 2000-2004 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism | 2004 | Documentary | Himself |
| ESPN 25: The Headlines | 2004 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
| Late Night with Conan O'Brien | 2004 | TV Series | Himself |
| Wolf Blitzer Reports | 2004 | TV Series | Himself |
| Proud to Serve: The Men and Women of the U.S. Army | 2003 | TV Movie documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| Journalists: Killed in the Line of Duty | 2003 | TV Movie documentary | Himself (voice) |
| CBS at 75 | 2003 | TV Special documentary | Himself |
| Avoiding Armageddon | 2003 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Host - Narrator |
| Jim McKay: My World in My Words | 2003 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The Living Century | 2003 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Host |
| S.O.S. Planet | 2002 | Documentary short | Himself, Narrator |
| Television in America: An Autobiography | 2002 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Rocket Science | 2002 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story | 2002 | TV Movie documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony | 2002 | Documentary | Himself (voice) |
| Korean War Stories | 2001 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Host - Narrator |
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 2001 | TV Special | Himself - Host |
| The 53rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards | 2001 | TV Special | Himself |
| 60 Minutes | 2001 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Former CBS News Anchor (segment "Special Report") |
| Late Show with David Letterman | 1994-2001 | TV Series | Himself |
| Breaking the News | 2001 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Ronald Reagan: The Hollywood Years, the Presidential Years | 2001 | Video documentary | Himself |
| On Common Ground | 2001/I | Documentary | Himself - Commentator |
| Here's to You, Charlie Brown: 50 Great Years | 2000 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 2000 | TV Special documentary | Himself - Master of Ceremonies |
| Fail Safe | 2000 | TV Movie | Himself - Host |
| Brother, Can You Spare a Billion?: The Story of Jesse H. Jones | 2000 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Narrator |
| Good Grief, Charlie Brown: A Tribute to Charles Schulz | 2000 | TV Special | Himself - Host |
| HARDtalk | 2000 | TV Series | Himself |
| The American President | 2000 | TV Series documentary | George Washington |
| Uncommon Friends of the Twentieth Century | 1999 | Documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 1999 | TV Special | Himself - Master of Ceremonies |
Archive Footage
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13th | 2016 | Documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| Frontline | 2016 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The Eighties | 2016 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself - CBS News |
| 60 Minutes | 2005-2016 | TV Series documentary | Himself (segment "Andy Rooney") / Himself - News Anchor (segment "First Man") / Himself - News Anchor / ... |
| Robert Shaw: Man of Many Voices | 2016 | Documentary | Himself |
| I Remember Herb Caen | 2016 | Documentary | Himself |
| The Seventies | 2015 | TV Series documentary | Himself - CBS News |
| Sinatra: All or Nothing at All | 2015 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
| Best of Enemies | 2015 | Documentary | Himself |
| What Happened, Miss Simone? | 2015 | Documentary | Himself |
| Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock & Roll | 2014 | Documentary | Himself |
| Stossel | 2014 | TV Series | Himself - CBS News |
| The Sixties | 2014 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself - CBS News |
| The 50 Year Argument | 2014 | Documentary | Himself - Broadcaster |
| American Experience | 2005-2014 | TV Series documentary | Himself / Himself - CBS News Anchor |
| Secrets of the Dead | 2013 | TV Series documentary | Himself - CBS Anchorman |
| Newsflash: Stories That Stopped the World | 2013 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - News Anchor (uncredited) |
| Khrushchev Does America | 2013 | Documentary | Himself, news anchorman, CBS |
| Dallas, une journée particulière | 2013 | TV Movie documentary | Himself, reporter, CBS News |
| Our Man in Tehran | 2013 | Documentary | Himself |
| The Fifth Estate | 2013 | Himself (uncredited) | |
| The Butler | 2013/I | Himself (uncredited) | |
| Moyers & Company | 2013 | TV Series | Himself |
| Our Nixon | 2013 | Documentary | Himself |
| Lovelace | 2013 | Himself (uncredited) | |
| Valentino's Ghost | 2012 | Documentary | Himself |
| Lorg na gCos: Súil Siar ar Mise Éire | 2012 | Documentary | Himself |
| Ethel | 2012 | Documentary | Himself |
| Gloria: In Her Own Words | 2011 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Transformers: Dark of the Moon | 2011 | Himself (uncredited) | |
| Super 8 | 2011 | Himself - CBS News Anchor (uncredited) | |
| Doctor Who | 2011 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Kennedys | 2011 | TV Mini-Series | Himself |
| Kennedys' Home Movies | 2011 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Reagan | 2011 | Documentary | Himself - CBS News |
| Lombardi | 2010 | TV Movie documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| 30 for 30 | 2010 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Have You Heard from Johannesburg: The Bottom Line | 2010 | Documentary | Himself, anchorman, CBS Evening News |
| Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals | 2010 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Inside Edition | 2009 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Entertainment Tonight | 2009 | TV Series | Himself |
| Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me | 2009 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Fall of the Republic: The Presidency of Barack H. Obama | 2009 | Documentary | Himself |
| JFK: 3 Shots That Changed America | 2009 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The 61st Primetime Emmy Awards | 2009 | TV Special | Himself - In Memoriam |
| Huxley on Huxley | 2009 | Documentary | Himself |
| Double Take | 2009 | Documentary | Himself - TV Newsman (uncredited) |
| The Shock Doctrine | 2009 | Documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| Iran and the West | 2009 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Cold Case | 2008 | TV Series | Himself |
| Milk | 2008/I | Himself (uncredited) | |
| Frost/Nixon | 2008 | Himself (uncredited) | |
| When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions | 2008 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself - CBS News |
| Chelsea on the Rocks | 2008 | Documentary | Himself |
| Killer at Large | 2008 | Documentary | Himself |
| Inside the Vietnam War | 2008 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
| 1968 with Tom Brokaw | 2007 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Across the River to Motor City | 2007 | TV Series | Himself |
| Secrets of the Moon Landings | 2007 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Oswald's Ghost | 2007 | Documentary | Himself |
| Twentieth Century Battlefields | 2007 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Situation Critical | 2007 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Cbs Newscaster |
| Sputnik Fever | 2007 | Documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death | 2007 | Documentary | Himself |
| Larry Flynt: The Right to Be Left Alone | 2007 | Documentary | Himself |
| ITV Morning News | 2007 | TV Series | Himself - CBS News - 22 November 1963 |
| In the Shadow of the Moon | 2007 | Documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| Chicago 10 | 2007 | Documentary | Himself / CBS anchor |
| 20 to 1 | 2006 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Newsreader |
| This Film Is Not Yet Rated | 2006 | Documentary | Himself - 1968 TV Newscaster (uncredited) |
| The First Miracle: 1960 US Olympic Hockey Team | 2006 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Sir! No Sir! | 2005 | Documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| Call It Democracy | 2005 | Documentary | Himself - CBS News |
| Inside Deep Throat | 2005 | Documentary | Himself - CBS News Anchor (uncredited) |
| JFK: Breaking the News | 2004 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry | 2004 | Documentary | Himself |
| Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power | 2004 | Documentary | Himself |
| Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed | 2004 | Documentary | Himself |
| Die Chronik des Nürnberger Prozesses | 2003 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Reporter |
| Brilliant But Cancelled | 2002 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia | 2002 | Documentary | Himself |
| The Star Dreamer | 2002 | Documentary | Himself - CBS News, 1958 |
| Out of the Blue | 2002 | Video documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| Path to War | 2002 | TV Movie | Himself (uncredited) |
| Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Women of Camelot | 2001 | TV Movie | Himself - Announces Death of JFK (uncredited) |
| Thirteen Days | 2000 | Himself (uncredited) | |
| The Dish | 2000 | Himself (uncredited) | |
| Ali-Frazier I: One Nation... Divisible | 2000 | TV Movie documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| The Source: The Story of the Beats and the Beat Generation | 1999 | Documentary | Himself |
| Image of an Assassination: A New Look at the Zapruder Film | 1998 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Announces Death of JFK (uncredited) |
| A Bright Shining Lie | 1998 | TV Movie | Himself - Reports on Ia Drang Battle (uncredited) |
| From the Earth to the Moon | 1998 | TV Mini-Series | Himself |
| The Hudson Riverkeepers | 1998 | Documentary | Himself |
| The Long Way Home | 1997 | Documentary | Himself - UPI, Covers Nuremberg Trial (uncredited) |
| Diagnosis Murder | 1997 | TV Series | Himself |
| All Power to the People | 1996 | Documentary | Himself |
| Apollo 13 | 1995 | Himself (uncredited) | |
| Fame in the Twentieth Century | 1993 | TV Series documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| The Real Malcolm X | 1992 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Announces Death of JFK (uncredited) |
| Love Field | 1992 | Himself - Reports on Assassination of JFK (uncredited) | |
| JFK | 1991 | Himself - Interviewing JFK & Announcing His Death (uncredited) | |
| The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit | 1991 | Video documentary | Himself - CBS News (uncredited) |
| The Moon Above, the Earth Below | 1989 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Kerouac, the Movie | 1985 | Documentary | Himself - Reports Death of Kerouac (uncredited) |
| Vietnam: A Television History | 1983 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Showtime Looks at 1981 | 1981 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - News Anchor |
| Network | 1976 | Himself (uncredited) | |
| All the President's Men | 1976 | Himself (uncredited) | |
| The Movie Orgy | 1968 | Documentary | Himself - Reacting to Apollo Landing (uncredited) |
| CBS Reports | 1963 | TV Series documentary | Himself - - Reporter |
Won Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | OFTA TV Hall of Fame | Online Film & Television Association | Actors and Actresses | |
| 2008 | Gold Derby TV Award | Gold Derby Awards | Lifetime Achievement Award (Other) | |
| 1997 | CableACE | CableACE Awards | Documentary Series | Cronkite Remembers (1997) |
| 1994 | CableACE | CableACE Awards | Program Interviewer | The Holocaust: In Memory of Millions (1994) |
| 1992 | Career Achievement Award | International Documentary Association | ||
| 1991 | Award of Excellence | Banff Television Festival | ||
| 1986 | Career Achievement Award | Television Critics Association Awards | ||
| 1982 | Trustees Award | Daytime Emmy Awards | ||
| 1979 | Governor's Award | Primetime Emmy Awards | ||
| 1966 | Television Award | Ondas Awards | International Television: Best Presenter - Male (Internacionales de televisión: Mejor locutor) | |
| 1963 | Personal Award | Peabody Awards | ||
| 1961 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Television Achievement | Perry Mason (1957) |
Nominated Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Gold Derby TV Award | Gold Derby Awards | Life Achievement (Other) | |
| 2007 | TV Land Award | TV Land Awards | The "Hey! It's...!" Award (Favorite Cameo or Guest Star) | Mary Tyler Moore (1970) |
| 2004 | Daytime Emmy | Daytime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program | Liberty's Kids: Est. 1776 (2002) |
| 2003 | Daytime Emmy | Daytime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program | Liberty's Kids: Est. 1776 (2002) |
| 2003 | TV Land Award | TV Land Awards | Most Memorable Male Guest Star in a Comedy as Himself | Mary Tyler Moore (1970) |
| 2000 | Daytime Emmy | Daytime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Special Class Special | Great Performances (1971) |
| 1995 | CableACE | CableACE Awards | Public Affairs Special or Series | The Cronkite Report: The Faltering Dream (1993) |
| 1995 | CableACE | CableACE Awards | Informational or Documentary Host | Ape Man: The Story of Human Evolution (1994) |
| 1993 | CableACE | CableACE Awards | Informational or Documentary Host | Dinosaur! (1991) |
| 1957 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Best News Commentator |
Known for movies
The Twentieth Century (1957-1966)
as Narrator / Himself - Host / Himself - Narrator / Himself - Reporter / Himself - Host and Narrator / Narrator (voice)
Fail Safe (2000)
as Himself - Host
You Are There (1953-1971)
as Himself - Host - Narrator / Himself - Host / Narrator / Host
Empire of Dreams: The Story of the 'Star Wars' Trilogy (2004)
as Thanks