J. Edgar Hoover (film)

J. Edgar Hoover
Genre	Drama
Based on	The Bureau: My 30 Years in Hoover's FBI; by William C. Sullivan & William S. Brown
Written by	Robert L. Collins
Directed by	Robert L. Collins
Starring	Joe Regalbuto; Walker Edmiston; John McLiam
Theme music composer	J. Peter Robinson
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
Production
Executive producer(s)	Bill Finnegan; Patricia Finnegan; Sheldon Pinchuk
Producer(s)	Robert L. Collins; Scott Winant (co-producer); Christina Hornisher (associate producer); E. Darrell Hallenbeck (supervising producer)
Cinematography	Tim Suhrstedt
Editor(s)	Patrick Kennedy
Running time	108 min.
Production company(s)	Finnegan/Pinchuk Productions; RLC Productions; Showtime Networks
Distributor	Showtime Networks
Release
Original network	Showtime
Original release	January 11, 1987

J. Edgar Hoover is a 1987 made-for-television biopic starring Treat Williams as the eponymous J. Edgar Hoover, the long-serving (1924 - 1972) Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The film is based on the book The Bureau: My 30 Years in Hoover's FBI by William C. Sullivan and William S. Brown and dramatises key points in Hoover's life between the time he joined the U.S. Justice Department in 1919 and his death in May 1972.

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