Ronald Reagan
Born: 1911-02-06 in Tampico, Illinois, USA
Died: 2004-06-05
Known For: Acting
Biography
Ronald Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989), the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975) and prior to that an actor. Upon his college graduation, Reagan first moved to Iowa to work as a radio broadcaster and then in 1937 to Los Angeles, California. He began a career as an actor appearing in over fifty movie productions. Some of his most notable roles are in Knute Rockne, All American and Kings Row. Reagan served as president of the Screen Actors Guild, and later spokesman for General Electric. His start in politics occurred during his work for General Electric. Originally a member of the Democratic Party, he switched to the Republican Party in 1962. After supporting of Barry Goldwater's presidential candidacy in 1964, he was persuaded to seek the California governorship, winning two years later and again in 1970. He was defeated in his run for the Republican presidential nomination in 1968 as well as 1976, but defeated incumbent Jimmy Carter in 1980 presidential election. Reagan left office in 1989. In 1994, the former president disclosed that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease earlier in the year. He died ten years later at the age of 93.
Filmography
2026
- Untold Mr. T: I Pity the Fool as Self (archive footage)
- America Who Are You? as Self (archive footage)
- Soccer's American Dream as Self (archive footage)
- Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown as Self (archive footage)
- Dynasty: The Murdochs as Self (archive footage)
- Disneyland Handcrafted as Self (archive footage)
- Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney as Self (archival footage)
- The Unelected Statesman as Self (archive footage)
- Them as Self (archival footage) (uncredited)
- Spartamerika as Self (archive footage)
2025
- Breakdown: 1975 as Self - Former Governor of California (archive footage)
- Henry Fonda for President as Self (archive footage)
- Titanic: Secrets of the Shipwreck as Self (archive footage)
- AUM: The Cult at the End of the World as Self (archive footage)
- Sally as Self (archive footage)
- Amérique Latine, un continent sous influences
- Clearing the Air: The War on Smog as Self
2024
- Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War as Self (archive footage)
- Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? as Self (archive footage)
- Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The White House Effect as Self (archive footage)
- Walt Disney: Behind the Magic as Self (archive footage)
- Becoming Madonna as Self (archive footage)
- Bruce Springsteen: The America Whisperer as Self : USA President (Archive footage)
- Reagan: Portrait of a Presidency as Self (archive footage)
- Why Trump? as Self (archive footage)
- Hinckley as Self (archive footage)
- America's Woman as Self
- Ronald Reagan's Speech at Normandy
- Mahdi Amel in Gaza: On the Colonial Mode of Production as Self (archive footage)
- Duels of History
2023
- Superpowered: The DC Story as Self (archive footage)
- Lockerbie as Self (archive footage)
- Three Wars as Self (archive footage)
- In the Grip of Gazprom as Self (archive footage)
- The Kennedy Dynasty as Self - Politician (archive footage)
- The Great Heisman Race of 1997 as Self (archive footage)
- Commitment to Life as Self (archive footage)
- Kennedy, Sinatra and the Mafia as Self (archive footage)
2022
- Bandit as Self (archive footage)
- Freddie Mercury: The Final Act as Self (archive footage)
- Riotsville, USA as Self (archive footage)
- Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes as Self (archive footage)
- Prelúdio as Self (archive footage)
- Untold: Caitlyn Jenner as Self - (archive footage)
2021
- This Is Pop as Self (archive footage)
- Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror as Self (archive footage)
- The Eyes of Tammy Faye as Self (archive Footage)
- The New Air Force One: Flying Fortress as Self (archive footage)
- Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy as Self (archive footage)
- Fiasco as Self (archive footage)
- Killer, Trader and Psychopath: The America of Bret Easton Ellis as Self - Politician (archive footage)
- Mondo Hollywoodland as Self (archive footage)
- The Cars We Drove into Capitalism as Self (archive footage)
2020
- First Ladies as Self (archive footage)
- History 101 as Self (archive footage)
- Challenger: The Final Flight as Self (archive footage)
- Helter Skelter: An American Myth as Self (archive footage)
- Whose Vote Counts, Explained as Self (archive footage)
- 70 Years of Youth Revolt as Self (archive footage)
- High Score as Self (archive footage)
- Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President as Self (archive footage)
- The Reagans as Self (archive footage)
- Zappa as Self (archive footage)
- The Way I See It as Self (archive footage)
- Public Trust as Self (archive footage)
- John Lewis: Good Trouble as Self (archive Footage)
- The Soul of America as Self (archive footage)
- The Plot Against the President as Self (archive footage)
- Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty as archive footage
- Ronald Reagan: His Winning Wit as Self (archive footage)
- East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story as Self (archive footage)
- Frenemies: Putin and Trump as Self - Politician (archive footage)
- Jealous Guy: The Assassination of John Lennon as Self (archive footage)
- Television Event as Self (archive footage)
- FACE OF FIRE as (voice)
2019
- The Family as Self (archive footage)
- Leaving Neverland as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Devil Next Door as Self(archive footage)
- Where's My Roy Cohn? as Self (archive footage)
- Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power as Self - Politician (archive footage)
- Mike Wallace Is Here as Self (archive footage)
- Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress as Self (archive footage)
- Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind as Self (archive footage)
- Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn as Self (archive footage)
- Sid & Judy as Self (archive footage)
- Killing Patient Zero as Self (archive footage)
- Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation as Self
- Laboratory Greece as Self (archive footage)
- The Era of Neoliberalism as Self (archive footage)
- Hesburgh as Self (archive footage)
- The Shah's Funeral Ceremony as Self (archive footage)
2018
- Explained as Self (archive footage)
- Vice as Self (archival footage) (uncredited)
- Who Is America? as Self (archive footage)
- Beirut as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Above Majestic as Self (archive footage)
- Studio 54 as Self (archive footage)
- Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
- ¡Las Sandinistas! as Self (archive footage)
- The Corporate Coup D'État as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Reversing Roe as Self (archive footage)
- The Road to Mass Incarceration as Self (archive footage)
- ReMastered: Who Shot the Sheriff as Self (archive footage)
- Game Changers as Self (archive footage)
- 88/18 as Self (archive footage)
- King Bibi as Self (archive footage)
2017
- Snowfall as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- American Made as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Atomic Blonde as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Road to 9/11 as Self (archive footage)
- Код доступа as Self
- Get Me Roger Stone as Self (archive footage)
- This Is Bob Hope... as Self (archive footage)
- The Reagan Show as Self (archive footage)
- The Arrow of Time as Self (archive footage)
- Silk Road: Drugs, Death and the Dark Web as Self (archive footage)
- Chasing a Dream: Out of the Shadows as Self - Archived Footage
- Der Reichstag as Self (archive footage)
2016
- Forensic Justice as Self (archive footage)
- Race for the White House as Self (archive footage)
- Fatal News as Self (archive footage)
- The Eighties as Self (archive footage)
- 13th as Self (archive footage)
- Zero Days as Self (archive footage)
- The Occupation of the American Mind as Self (archive footage)
- HyperNormalisation as Self (archive footage)
- Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым as Self (archive footage)
- How to Win the US Presidency as Self (archive footage)
- Shadow World as Self - Politician (archive footage)
- Business of Disaster as Self - US President (archive footage)
- The Billboard Boys as Self (archive footage)
2015
- Narcos as Self (archive footage)
- MLB Network Presents as Self (archive footage)
- Bitter Lake as Self (archive footage)
- The Making of Trump as Self (archive footage)
- The Emperor's New Clothes as Self (archive footage)
- Laissez-faire as Self (archive footage)
- All Eyes and Ears as Self (archive footage)
- Geheimauftrag Pontifex – Der Vatikan im Kalten Krieg as Self (archive footage)
- Uncovering Wolfen as Self (archive footage)
2013
- The '80s: The Decade That Made Us as Self (archive footage)
- Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored as Self (archive footage)
- The World According to Dick Cheney as Self (archive footage)
- The Kennedy Half Century as Self (archive footage)
- Het geheim van Ruud Lubbers as Self (archive footage)
- The Presidents' Gatekeepers as Self (archive footage)
- Koch as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Before the Revolution as Self (archive footage)
- Night of the Sea Monkey as Self (archive footage)
- Our Nixon as Self (archive footage)
- JFK Remembered: 50 Years Later as Self (archive footage)
2012
- Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States as Self
- The House I Live In as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Untold History Of The United States as Self (archive footage)
- Free Angela and All Political Prisoners as Self (archive footage)
- A Night at the Movies: Hollywood Goes to Washington as Self (archive footage)
- Secret Service Secrets as Ronald Reagan
- Palme as Self (archive footage)
- An Escalator in World Order as Self (archive footage)
- 41 as Self (archive footage)
- Trente ans de guerre au nom de Dieu
- The Party Of Reagan as Self (archive footage)
2011
- Taking the Oath: America's History From Oval Office as Self (archive footage)
- Breaking the Taboo as Self (archive footage)
- Ronald Reagan: An American Journey as Self (archive footage)
- The Undefeated as Self - President of the United States (archive footage)
- Vito as Self (archive footage)
- Reagan as Self (archive footage)
- Reagan as Self (archive footage)
- The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby as Self (archive footage)
2010
- Beyond the Black Rainbow as Self (archive footage)
- Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics as Self (archive footage)
- 2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift as (archive footage)
- How to Win the TV Debate as Self (archive footage)
- Nancy Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime as Self (archive footage)
2009
- MLB: Baseball's Seasons as Self (archive footage)
- Capitalism: A Love Story as Self (archive footage)
- Looking Back to the Future as Self (archive footage)
- Disco and Atomic War as Self (archive footage)
- Outrage as Self (archive footage)
2008
- Milk as Self (archive footage)
- Thank You, Mr. President: Helen Thomas at the White House as Self (archive footage)
- Bigger Stronger Faster* as Self (archive footage)
- You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story as Self (archive footage)
- All the Presidents' Wives as Self (archive footage)
- Starz Inside: In the Gutter as Self (archive)
- La Coupe Stanley à Montréal en 1993 as Self (archive footage)
- Dennis O'Rourke on Dennis O'Rourke as Self (archive footage)
- Blood and Oil as Self (archive footage)
2007
- The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom as Self (archive footage)
- Hammer & Tickle as Self (archive footage)
- Heckler as Self
- The War on Democracy as Self (Archive Footage)
- Sputnik Mania as Self (archive footage)
2006
- America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions as Self (archive footage)
- The Sentinel as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- An Inconvenient Truth as Self (archive footage)
- ...So Goes the Nation as Self (archive footage)
- Best Ever Spitting Image as Self (archive footage)
2005
- James Dean: Forever Young as Self (archive footage)
- Dan Aykroyd Unplugged On UFOs as Self (archive footage)
- Ronald Reagan: An American President as Self
- The Found Footage Festival Volume 1: Live in Brooklyn as Self (archive footage)
2004
- Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism as Self (archive footage)
- Strip Search as self (archive footage)
- Remembering Reagan at His Ranch as Self (archive footage)
- With God on Our Side: George W. Bush and the Rise of the Religious Right in America as Self
- Ronald Reagan: The Great Speeches as self
- Salute to Reagan - A President's Greatest Moments as Self
- President Ronald Reagan: The Great Speeches as Self
- Ronald Reagan: The Great Communicator as Self (Archive footage)
- Stand-up Reagan as Self (archive footage)
- The UFO Conspiracy as Self – UFO Witness (archive sound)
2003
- Days That Shook the World as Self (archive footage)
- 101 Most Shocking Moments in Entertainment as Self (archive footage)
- Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films as Self (archive footage)
- Chaplin Today: Monsieur Verdoux as Self (archive footage)
2002
- The Century of the Self as Self (archive footage)
- Naqoyqatsi as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Cockettes as Self (archive footage)
- We Get to Win This Time as Self (archive)
- Afganistan: Land in Crisis as Self (archive)
- Monday Night Mayhem as Self (archive footage)
- Guts and Glory as Self (archive footage)
- Massacre: The Story of East Timor as Self (archive footage)
2001
- Ronald Reagan: The Hollywood Years, the Presidential Years as Self (archive footage)
2000
- American Psycho as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1999
- Faith of the Century: A History of Communism as Self (archive footage)
- Grass as Self (archive footage)
- Presidential Bloopers as Self (archive footage)
- According to Occam's Razor
1998
- Secrets of the CIA as Self (archive footage)
- Reagan as Self (archive footage)
1997
- Frank Capra's American Dream as Self (archive footage)
- Sports on the Silver Screen as Self (archive footage)
- Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line as Self (archive footage)
- Herbert's Hippopotamus: Marcuse and Revolution in Paradise as Self (archive footage)
1996
- E! True Hollywood Story
- Assassinations That Changed the World
- Independence Day: The ID4 Invasion as Self (archive footage)
- All Power to the People! as Self (archive footage)
- Inside the White House as Self (archive footage)
- Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2 as Self (archive footage)
- Political Decadence as Self (archive footage)
1995
- Nixon as (Archive footage)
- Faces of Death V as Self (archive footage)
1994
1993
1991
- Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire as Self (archive footage)
- Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America as Self(archive footage)
- The Discovery Of Marilyn Monroe
- Air Force One: The Planes and the Presidents as Self
- Are We Alone In the Universe? as Self (archive footage)
- Armageddon: The Future of the Planet is at Stake as Self (archive footage)
1990
- Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Celebration as Self
- Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To as (archive footage)
- Positive as Self
1989
- Roger & Me as Self (archive footage)
- Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt as Self (archive footage)
- I Don't Even Like Apple Pie... as Self (archive footage)
1988
- American Experience as Self (archive footage)
- Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man as Self (archive footage)
- Thy Kingdom Come ... Thy Will Be Done as Self - American President (archive footage)
- The Choice as Self
- Praise the Lord as Self
1987
- Hollywood Uncensored as Self (archive footage)
- James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self
- The Journey as Self
- Der springende Punkt
1986
- Kraft Salutes the George Burns 90th Birthday Special as Self
- Destination Nicaragua as Self (archive footage)
- Rockin' Ronnie as Self (archive footage)
1985
- Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers as Self (archive footage)
- All Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan as Self
- Backstage at the White House as Self (archive footage)
- America, You're Too Young to Die as Self
- Acts of Violence
1984
- Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man as Self (archive footage)
- 43/84: 1984 as Self
1983
- Frontline as Self (archive footage)
- Not Necessarily the News as Self (archive footage)
- Vietnam: A Television History as Self (archive footage)
- Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- James Bond: The First 21 Years as Self
- Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon on Camera as Self (archive footage)
- EPCOT Center: A Souvenir Program as Self (archive footage)
- The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area? as Self (archive footage)
1982
- American Playhouse as Self (archive footage)
- Showbiz Goes to War as (archive footage)
- Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers! as Self (archive footage)
- Let Poland Be Poland as Self
1981
- Command Performance: The Stars Salute the President as Self
- Faces of Death II as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Killing of America as Self (archive footage)
1980
- The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's as Self (archive footage)
1976
- It's Showtime as Self (archive footage)
1973
- The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts as Self
1972
1971
- Great Performances as Self
- V.I.P. Schaukel as Self
- Cold Turkey as Self (archive footage)
1970
- Hollywood Blue as (archive footage)
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- Head as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Autumn and Cardboard as Self
1967
1966
- The Victory Squad as Self
1964
- The Killers as Jack Browning
1963
- Kraft Suspense Theatre as Judge Howard R. Stimming
- World in Action
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Truth About Communism
- The Hold-Out as Narrator
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self - Governor of California
- The Dick Powell Show as Rex Kent
- The Young Doctors as Narrator (voice)
- Who Killed Julie Greer? as Rex Kent
1959
- The DuPont Show with June Allyson as Alan Royce
- Startime as Self – Host
1957
- Hellcats of the Navy as Cmdr. Casey Abbott (Captain, USS Starfish)
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Maj. Will Sinclair
- A Child is Born: A Christmas Story Presented by Ronald Reagan as Narrator
- The Dangerous Drugs as Narrator
1955
1954
- The Wonderful World of Disney as Self
- Cattle Queen of Montana as Farrell
- The Road to Edinburgh as Host
- Prisoner of War as Webb Sloane
- The Dark, Dark Hours as Joe
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- General Electric Theater as Self - Host
- Law and Order as Frame Johnson
- The Other Wise Man as Narrator
- Tropic Zone as Dan McCloud
1952
- This Is Your Life as Self
- Death Valley Days as Self - Host
- She's Working Her Way Through College as John Palmer
- The Winning Team as Grover Cleveland Alexander
- Hong Kong as Jeff Williams
1951
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Doctor
- Storm Warning as Burt Rainey
- The Last Outpost as Capt. Vance Britten
- Bedtime for Bonzo as Professor Peter Boyd
- The Big Truth as Self - Host
1950
- What's My Line? as Self
- Lux Video Theatre as Merle Fisher
- Louisa as Hal Norton
1949
- It's a Great Feeling as Ronald Reagan (uncredited)
- Night Unto Night as John Galen
- The Girl from Jones Beach as Bob Randolph - Robert Benerik
- The Hasty Heart as Yank
- John Loves Mary as John Lawrence
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Texaco Star Theater as Self
1947
- The Voice of the Turtle as Sergeant Bill Page
- Blow-Ups of 1947 as Self
- So You Want to Be in Pictures as Self (uncredited)
- Stallion Road as Larry Hanrahan
- That Hagen Girl as Tom Bates
1946
- Blow-Ups of 1946 as Self
1945
- The Fight for the Sky as Narrator (voice)
- Wings for This Man as Narrator (voice)
- Target Tokyo as Narrator
- The Stilwell Road as Narrator
1944
- Air Siege as Narrator (voice)
- B-29 Flight Engineer as Narrator / Voice of Pilot (voice)
- Resisting Enemy Interrogation ... (Producer)
- Fighter Combat Formation: Attacks and Escorts as Captain
- Recognition of the CG-4A Glider as Narrator (voice)
- Operation of the Glider Pick-Up by the C-47 as Narrator (voice)
1943
- This Is the Army as Johnny Jones
- For God and Country as Michael O'Keefe
- Recognition of the Japanese Zero Fighter as Jimmy Saunders
- The Rear Gunner as Lt. Ames
- Cadet Classification
1942
- Juke Girl as Steve Talbot
- Kings Row as Drake McHugh
- Breakdowns of 1942 as Self
- Desperate Journey as Flight Officer Johnny Hammond
- Beyond the Line of Duty as Narrator (voice)
- Shoot Yourself Some Golf as Self
- Mr. Gardenia Jones as Gardenia Jones
1941
- Nine Lives Are Not Enough as Matt Sawyer
- Million Dollar Baby as Peter Rowan
- The Bad Man as Gil Jones
- Breakdowns of 1941 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- International Squadron as Jimmy Grant
1940
- Santa Fe Trail as George Custer
- Knute Rockne All American as George Gipp
- Brother Rat and a Baby as Dan Crawford
- An Angel from Texas as Marty Allen
- Murder in the Air as Brass Bancroft
- Tugboat Annie Sails Again as Eddie Kent
- Alice in Movieland as Carlo's Guest (uncredited)
- Breakdowns of 1940 as Self
1939
- Dark Victory as Alec
- Secret Service of the Air as Lt. 'Brass' Bancroft
- Smashing the Money Ring as Lt. Brass Bancroft
- Angels Wash Their Faces as Patrick "Pat" Remson
- Code of the Secret Service as Brass Bancroft
- Naughty but Nice as Eddie
- Sword Fishing as Narrator (voice)
- Hell's Kitchen as Jim Donahue
- Breakdowns of 1939 as Self
1938
- The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse as Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
- Hollywood Hotel as Radio Host at Premiere (uncredited)
- Breakdowns of 1938 as Ronald (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Cowboy from Brooklyn as Pat Dunn
- Going Places as Jack Withering
- Boy Meets Girl as Announcer
- Brother Rat as Dan Crawford
- Accidents Will Happen as Eric Gregg
- Girls on Probation as Neil Dillon
- Swing Your Lady as Jack Miller
- Sergeant Murphy as Pvt. Dennis Reilley
1937
- Love Is on the Air as Andy McCaine