William F. Buckley Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
William Frank Buckley, Jr. (November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008) was an American conservative author and commentator. He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955, which had a major impact in stimulating the conservative movement. He hosted 1,429 episodes of the television show Firing Line from 1966 until 1999, where he became known for his transatlantic accent and wide vocabulary. He also wrote a nationally syndicated newspaper column, and wrote numerous spy novels.George H. Nash, a historian of the modern American Conservative movement, states that Buckley was "arguably the most important public intellectual in the United States in the past half century... For an entire generation, he was the preeminent voice of American conservatism and its first great ecumenical figure." Buckley's primary contribution to politics was a fusion of traditional American political conservatism with laissez-faire economic theory and anti-communism, laying groundwork for the new American conservatism of U.S. presidential candidate Barry Goldwater and President Ronald Reagan.Buckley wrote God and Man at Yale (1951) and over 50 other books on writing, speaking, history, politics, and sailing, including a series of novels featuring CIA agent Blackford Oakes. Buckley referred to himself as either a libertarian or conservative. He resided in New York City and Stamford, Connecticut. He was a practicing Catholic, regularly attending the traditional Latin Mass in Connecticut.
November 24, 1925, New York City, New York, United States
Died
February 27, 2008, Stamford, Connecticut, United States
Place Of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Height
6' 1" (1.85 m)
Profession
Actor, Soundtrack, Miscellaneous Crew
Spouse
Patricia Buckley (m. 1950–2007)
Children
Christopher Buckley
Star Sign
Sagittarius
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Trademark
1
Mid-Atlantic accent
2
Erudite vocabulary
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Quote
1
[to Gore Vidal in a heated on-air exchange,1968] Now listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I'll sock you in your goddamn face and you'll stay plastered.
2
I should sooner live in a society governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the 2,000 faculty members of Harvard University.
3
The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a few ounces of marijuana makes no sense.
4
The Beatles are not merely awful. I would consider it sacrilegious to say anything less that that they are god-awful. They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as the crowned heads of anti-music.
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Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.
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Liberals are people who will believe anything...twice.
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Fact
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Release of the book, "Losing Mum and Pop: A Memoir" by Christopher Buckley. [May 2009]
2
Uncle of Brent Bozell. He and Bozell father, L. Brent Bozell Jr., were roommates at Yale and his wife, Patricia Taylor, and his sister (and Bozell's mother), Patricia Buckley, were roommates at Vassar.
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Served in the CIA as a Political Action Officer.
4
Responding to Edward R. Murrow's public attacks on him, Joseph McCarthy challenged Morrow to debate Buckley about Communists within the U.S. Government. Morrow refused.
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Served as godfather for three of friend E. Howard Hunt's children. Also served as executor of the estate of Hunt's wife, Dorothy Wetzel Hunt, after she perished in a mysterious plane crash near Chicago in December 1972
Brother of the former U.S. Senator from New York, James Buckley, who represented the Conservative Party.
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One of 10 children of Aloise Josephine Antonia (Steiner) and William Frank Buckley, Sr. His father was born in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, to parents from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, who were both of Irish descent. His mother was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, of German, Swiss-German, and Irish ancestry.
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Best known as the publisher of National Review, the Conservative periodical, but also is a syndicated political columnist.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
LateLine
1999
TV Series
William F. Buckley
Clare Booth Luce: Hell on Heels
1998
TV Movie
Interviewee
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
...and Then There's Claude.
2009
Documentary short music: "Miles Gone By"
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
1992
Documentary archive source: TV and video - as William F. Buckley Jr.
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Tanker Time Bomb
2005
TV Movie documentary special thanks
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
1992
Documentary acknowledgment - as William F. Buckley Jr.
What Happened to Kerouac?
1986
Documentary thanks - as William Buckley
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Do Not Enter: The Visa War Against Ideas
1986
Documentary
Himself
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1966-1985
TV Series
Himself / Himself - Guest
Freedom to Speak
1983
TV Mini-Series
Himself - Host
Today
1980-1982
TV Series
Himself
Good Morning America
1979
TV Series
Himself
The Mike Douglas Show
1968-1978
TV Series
Himself - Author / Himself - Journalist / Himself
Donahue
1976
TV Series
Himself
Dinah!
1975
TV Series
Himself
ABC Late Night
1973
TV Series
The David Frost Show
1969-1971
TV Series
Himself
Laugh-In
1970
TV Series
Himself
NBC Experiment in Television
1970
TV Series
Himself
NET Journal
1969
TV Series documentary
Himself
The Kraft Music Hall
1967
TV Series
Himself
Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley
1965
TV Movie documentary
Himself (as William F. Buckley Jr.)
The Jack Paar Tonight Show
1962
TV Series
Himself
Longines Chronoscope
1952
TV Series
Himself - Panelist
Norman Mailer: The American
2010
Documentary
Fox News Reporting: The Right, All Along - The Rise, Fall and Future of Conservatism
2010
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself
The Unseen Alistair Cooke
2008
TV Movie documentary
Himself
William F. Buckley: Right from the Start
2008
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Charlie Rose
1995-2007
TV Series
Himself / Himself - Guest
Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride: Hunter S. Thompson on Film
2006
Documentary
Himself
Pluck
2006
Documentary short
Hannity & Colmes
2005
TV Series
Himself
Future of Conservatism
2004
TV Movie
Himself
First Monday
2002
TV Series
Himself
Dirty Pictures
2000
TV Movie
Himself (Special Appearances by) (as William F. Buckley Jr.)
New York in the 50's
2000
Documentary
Himself
The American President
2000
TV Series documentary
Theodore Roosevelt
Firing Line
1966-1999
TV Series
Himself - Host / Himself (for the positive) / Himself - For the Affirmative
Mike Wallace Remembers
1997
TV Movie
Himself
The Odyssey of John Dos Passos
1994
TV Movie documentary
Himself (as William F. Buckley Jr.)
American Masters
1994
TV Series documentary
Himself
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
TV Series
Himself
Alistair Cooke Salute
1992
TV Movie
Himself
Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time
1992
Documentary
Himself
Who Wrote Shakespeare's Works?
1990
TV Movie documentary
Moderator of Panel Discussion
Late Night with David Letterman
1982-1989
TV Series
Himself
All-Star Celebration: The '88 Vote
1988
TV Movie
Himself (as William F. Buckley Jr.)
An All Star Celebration: Vote '88
1988
TV Movie
Himself
The 1987 Annual Schweitzer Award Music Awards
1987
TV Special
Himself - Presenter
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Media Buzz
2015
TV Series
Himself
Conspiracy Theorists Lie
2015
Documentary
Himself
Charlie Rose
2015
TV Series
Himself - Guest
The Seventies
2015
TV Series documentary
Himself - Host
Best of Enemies
2015
Documentary
Himself
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
2015
Documentary
Himself - Firing Line (as William F. Buckley Jr.)
The Sixties
2014
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself - Host (as William F. Buckley, Jr.) / Himself - Conservative columnist
The Trials of Muhammad Ali
2013
Documentary
Himself
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
2013
Documentary
Himself
American Masters
2012
TV Series documentary
Himself
How Playboy Changed the World
2012
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Public Speaking
2010
Documentary
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
2009
Documentary
Himself (as William F. Buckley Jr.)
60 Minutes
2008
TV Series documentary
Himself (segment "Andy Rooney")
Democracy Now!
2008
TV Series
Himself
A Huey P. Newton Story
2001
TV Movie documentary
Himself (uncredited)
The Source: The Story of the Beats and the Beat Generation
1999
Documentary
Himself
No More to Say & Nothing to Weep For: An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg 1926-1997