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Seymour Hersh

Acting Born Apr 8, 1937 Chicago, Illinois, USA 9 credits

Biography

Seymour Myron Hersh is an American investigative journalist and political writer. He gained recognition in 1969 for exposing the My Lai massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.

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Film

The Stepford Wives

as Self - Guest
Film

Cover-Up

as Self - Investigative Journalist

Frequent co-stars

Jeff Gerth 1 shared title
David Obst 1 shared title
Bob Woodward 1 shared title
Max Friedman 1 shared title
Amy Davidson Sorkin 1 shared title
Antonio Taguba 1 shared title
Camille Lo Sapio 1 shared title
Isador Hersh 1 shared title
Dorothy Hersh 1 shared title
Alan Hersh 1 shared title

Career timeline

Cover-Up
WormwoodWormwood
Shadow World
War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State
The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
Buying the Bomb
The Dick Cavett Show

Full filmography

  • The Dick Cavett Show (1968) as Self - Guest
  • Cover-Up (2025) as Self - Investigative Journalist
  • Wormwood (2017) as Self (archive footage)
  • Wormwood (2017) as Self - Investigative Journalist
  • Shadow World (2016) as Self - Journalist (archive footage)
  • War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State (2013) as Self - Journalist
  • Buying the Bomb (1985) as Self
  • The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby (2011) as Self
  • The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002) as Self