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Self is a real person portrayed by Franklin D. Roosevelt in the TV series American Experience (based on a true story).
In the first episode they appeared in, titled LBJ: Part 1 - Beautiful Texas (season 4), they were 109 years old.
They appear in 10 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.

Self

by Franklin D. Roosevelt

character

Episodes10

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    LBJ: Part 1 - Beautiful Texas
    episode S4.E1 september 1991
    Award 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 first of two parts.
  • 8.5
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    FDR: Part I
    episode S7.E1 october 1994
    Polio at age 39, president at age 50. Explore the public and private life of a determined man who steered this country through two monumental crises: the Depression and World War II. FDR served as president longer than any other, and his legacy still shapes our understanding of the role of government and the presidency. A film by award winning filmmaker David Grubin. This is the first of two parts.
  • 7.1
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    MacArthur
    episode S11.E8 may 1999
    Biography of U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur. Part one looks at his early life and service in World War I.
  • 6.8
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    Mount Rushmore
    episode S14.E6 january 2002
    The grand vision of sculptor Gutzon Borgum and the logistics behind the massive monument located in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
  • 6.6
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    Public Enemy Number 1
    episode S14.E10 february 2002
  • 7.1
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    Building the Alaska Highway
    episode S17.E4 february 2005
    The creation of the 1,500-mile Alaska-Canada Highway.
  • 7.2
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    Las Vegas: An Unconventional History: Part 1
    episode S18.E3 november 2005
  • 7.9
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    The Polio Crusade
    episode S21.E2 february 2009
    This film interweaves the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of an ardent crusader who tirelessly fought on their behalf while scientists raced to eradicate this dreaded disease
  • 7.5
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    Civilian Conservation Corps
    episode S22.E1 november 2009
    American Experience celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Founded by Roosevelt during the Great Depression, the CCC put over 3 million men to work improving the countries infrastructure and national parks.
  • 7.2
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    War of the Worlds
    episode S26.E1 october 2013
    An account of Orson Welles' 1938 radio drama broadcast that inadvertently started a mass panic.