- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- April 7, 1931
- Place of Birth
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Died
- June 16, 2023
Daniel Ellsberg
Daniel Ellsberg (April 7, 1931 – June 16, 2023) was an American political activist, economist, and United States military analyst. While employed by the RAND Corporation, he precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other newspapers. In January 1973, Ellsberg was charged under the Espionage Act of 1917 along with other charges of theft and conspiracy, carrying a maximum sentence of 115 years. Because of governmental misconduct and illegal evidence-gathering (committed by the same people who were later involved in the Watergate scandal), and his defense by Leonard Boudin and Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson, Judge William Matthew Byrne Jr. dismissed all charges against Ellsberg in May 19…
Filmography
movieThe Six Billion Dollar Man
2025 · Self
movieKissinger
2025 · Self (archival footage)
tvKissinger
2025 · Self (archival footage)
movieThe Trust Fall: Julian Assange
2024 · Self
movieIthaka
2022 · Self (archive footage)
movieThe Berrigans: Devout and Dangerous
2020 · Self
movieThird Party President: Citizen Rocky
2018 · Self
movieRisk
2017 · Self
movieNixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
2014 · Self (archive footage)
movieWar on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State
2013 · Self - Pentagon Papers Whistleblower
movieOur Nixon
2013 · Self
tvWhistleblowers: The Untold Stories
2011 · Self (archive footage)
movieJulian Assange: A Modern Day Hero?
2011 · Self - Whistleblower
movieThe Most Dangerous Man in America
2009 · Self (Narraror)
tvThe Colbert Report
2005 · Self
Axis of Evil: Perforated Praeter Naturam
movieAxis of Evil: Perforated Praeter Naturam
2004
movieHoward Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
2004 · Self
tvAmerican Experience
1988 · Self
movieDoomsday Chronicles
1979 · Self
movieThe Memory of Justice
1976 · Self
movieHearts and Minds
1974 · Self - Former Aide, Defense Dept., Rand Corp.
Police Off Campus!
moviePolice Off Campus!
1970 · Himself
tvThe Dick Cavett Show
1968 · Self - Guest
tvThe Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Self
How to Stop a Nuclear War
movieHow to Stop a Nuclear War
— · Self, Writer