Donald Rumsfeld
Born
July 9, 1932
Died
June 29, 2021 (88 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Donald Henry Rumsfeld (born July 9, 1932 - June 29, 2021) was an American politician and businessman. Rumsfeld served as the 13th Secretary of Defense from 1975 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford, and as the 21st Secretary of Defense from 2001 to 2006 under President George W. Bush. He is both the youngest and the oldest person to have served as Secretary of Defense. Additionally, Rumsfeld was a four-term U.S. Congressman from Illinois (1962-1969), Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity (1969-1970), Counsellor to the President (1969-1973), the United States Permanent Representative to NATO (1973-1974), and White House Chief of Staff (1974-1975).
Known For
Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World?
Self (archive footage) · (1 episode)
2024
Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror
Self (archive footage) · (2 episodes)
2021
Above Majestic
Self (archive footage)
2018
Wormwood
Self (archive footage) · (2 episodes)
2017
The Words That Built America
Self - Reader: The Constitution
2017
Shadow World
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2016
15 Septembers Later
Self
2016
The Draft
Self
2015
Laissez-faire
Self (archive footage)
2015
JFK to 9/11: Everything is a Rich Man's Trick
Self (archive footage)
2014
The Unknown Known
Self
2013
Propaganda
Self (archive footage)
2013
The World According to Dick Cheney
Self
2013
Tails You Win: The Science of Chance
2012
Top Priority: The Terror Within
Self - Former Secretary of Defense (archive footage)
2012
The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby
Self
2011
9/11: The Day That Changed the World
Self
2011
The Tillman Story
Self (archive footage)
2010
Blood and Oil
Self
2008
Leading to War
Self
2008
Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
Self (archive footage)
2007
...So Goes the Nation
Self (archive footage)
2006
Blowin' In The Wind
Self
2005
Torture: The Guantanamo Guidebook
Self (archival footage)
2005
WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception
Self
2004
LSD a Go Go
Self (archive footage)
2004
Unconstitutional: The War On Our Civil Liberties
Self (archive footage)
2004
Fahrenheit 9/11
Self (archive footage)
2004
Control Room
Self - US Secretary of Defense (archive footage)
2004
Dark Side of the Moon
Self
2002
The Bush White House: Inside the Real West Wing
Self
2002
Sabine Christiansen
Self · (1 episode)
1998
The Tyranny of Control
1980
The Mike Douglas Show
Self · (1 episode)
1961