Self is a real person portrayed by J. Edgar Hoover in the TV series American Experience (based on a true story).
They appear in 4 episodes out of a total of 387 aired so far
Self is also portrayed by Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Joan Fontaine, Judy Garland, Paul Newman, Frank Sinatra, Orson Welles, Charles Chaplin, Martin Scorsese and Nancy Allen.
Episodes4
LBJ: Part 2 - My Fellow Americans
episode S4.E2 october 1991Award winning filmmaker David Grubin profiles one of the most controversial U.S. presidents, Lyndon Baines Johnson, who rose from obscurity to the pinnacle of power, only to suffer disillusionment and defeat. Witness the events that brought LBJ from Texas to Washington, the White House, and a landslide election in 1964. Follow his triumphs in passing a wave of social legislation then his downward spiral which ends in withdrawal from politics. This is the second of two parts.Public Enemy Number 1
episode S14.E10 february 2002Roads to Memphis
episode S22.E7 may 2010This film tells the story of an assassin, James Earl Ray, his target, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the seething, turbulent forces in American society that led these two men to their violent and tragic collision in Memphis in April 1968.Klansville U.S.A.
episode S27.E3 january 2015Investigate the reasons North Carolina, long seen as the most progressive state in the South, became home to the largest Klan organization in the country, with more members than all the other Southern states combined, during the 1960s.
- LBJ: Part 2 - My Fellow Americans
- Public Enemy Number 1
- Roads to Memphis
- Klansville U.S.A.