Self is a real person portrayed by Winston Churchill in the TV series American Experience (based on a true story).
In the first episode they appeared in, titled FDR: Part I (season 7), they were 119 years old.
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
FDR: Part I
episode S7.E1 october 1994Polio 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.FDR: Part II
episode S7.E2 october 1994Polio 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 second of two parts.Truman: Part I
episode S10.E1 october 1997Biography of U.S. President Harry S Truman.The Secret of Tuxedo Park
episode S30.E2 january 2018Tells the story of the role played by American tycoon and physicist Alfred Lee Loomis and a team of British scientists at Loomis's home laboratory outside New York City in countervailing Nazi advances in nuclear fission during World War II.
- FDR: Part I
- FDR: Part II
- Truman: Part I
- The Secret of Tuxedo Park