J. Edgar Hoover (film)

*J. Edgar Hoover*
J. Edgar Hoover
Genre	Biography; 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	Treat Williams
Music by	J. Peter Robinson
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Executive producers	Bill Finnegan; Patricia Finnegan; Sheldon Pinchuk;
Producer	Robert L. Collins
Cinematography	Tim Suhrstedt
Editor	Patrick Kennedy
Running time	108 minutes
Production companies	Finnegan/Pinchuk Productions; RLC Productions; Showtime Networks;
Original release
Network	Showtime
Release	January 11, 1987

J. Edgar Hoover is a 1987 American biographical drama television film written and directed by Robert L. Collins. It stars 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 1979 book The Bureau: My 30 Years in Hoover's FBI by William C. Sullivan and William S. Brown, and dramatizes key points in Hoover's life between the time he joined the U.S. Justice Department in 1919 and his death in May 1972. It aired on Showtime on January 11, 1987.

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