Walter Cronkite

Characters played by Walter Cronkite

Self (archive footage) — Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)

A person appearing briefly in archival footage.

Captain Neweyes — We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993)

An alien astronaut who travels back in time to collect four dinosaurs. His goal is to grant them intelligence via Brain Grain cereal and display them at a museum so children can see real prehistoric creatures.

Career Overview

Walter Cronkite has 124 screen credits in a career dating back to 1944. Their work is anchored in the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Collection universe with 1 titles. Signature works include SS United States: Made in America, Fail Safe, The Dream Is Alive. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For: Acting
Gender: male
Known Credits: 124
Birth Date: 1916-11-04
Birth Place: St. Joseph, Missouri, USA

Known For

Associated Universes

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Collection (1 titles)

Frequent Collaborators

Neil Armstrong (2 collaborations)
Richard Nixon (2 collaborations)
Jim Lovell (2 collaborations)
Richard Dreyfuss (1 collaborations)
Noah Wyle (1 collaborations)
Brian Dennehy (1 collaborations)
Sam Elliott (1 collaborations)
James Cromwell (1 collaborations)
John Diehl (1 collaborations)
Hank Azaria (1 collaborations)

Credits

actors (123 credits)
- Man on the Moon: The Epic Journey of Apollo 11
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2026
- JFK Assassination: A New Perspective
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2025
- One to One: John & Yoko
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2025
- Sally
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2025
- The White House Effect
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2024
- Bad Hostage
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2024
- Apollo 13: Survival
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2024
- JFK: 24 Hours That Changed the World
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2023
- Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
  Self (voice) (archive sound)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2022
- Untold: Caitlyn Jenner
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2022
- The Janes
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2022
- The Martha Mitchell Effect
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2022
- Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
  Self - Host, CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2021
- Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2021
- The Real Right Stuff
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2020
- The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2020
- Killing John F. Kennedy
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2020
- Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
  Self - Anchorman (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2019
- Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2019
- Mike Wallace Is Here
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2019
- Apollo: The Forgotten Films
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2019
- Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2019
- 8 Days: To the Moon and Back
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2019
- Apollo: Missions to the Moon
  Self - CBS News (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2019
- I Am Richard Pryor
  Self - Anchorman (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2019
- Apollo 11
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2019
- Reversing Roe
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2018
- Studio 54
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2018
- Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2018
- Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
  Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2017
- The Fabulous Allan Carr
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2017
- The Reagan Show
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2017
- Dateline: Saigon
  Self (archival footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2017
- The Man Who Saved the World
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2014
- Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2014
- JFK: One PM Central Standard Time
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2013
- Newsflash: Stories That Stopped the World
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2013
- Valentino's Ghost
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2013
- SS United States: Made in America
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2013
- Free Angela and All Political Prisoners
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2012
- Ethel
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2012
- Gloria: In Her Own Words
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2011
- Home Away From Home: The Yanks in Ireland
  Narrator
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2011
- Milk
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2008
- SS United States: Lady in Waiting
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2008
- Man on the Moon with Walter Cronkite
  Reporter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2008
- Legacy of War
  Host
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2008
- The Pixar Story
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2007
- War Made Easy
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2007
- Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2007
- The U.S. vs. John Lennon
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2006
- This Film Is Not Yet Rated
  Self - 1968 TV Newscaster (archive footage) (uncredited)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2006
- Apollo 13: The Inside Story
  Self - CBS Evening News Anchorman
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2006
- Out of the Shadows: The Man Who Was Deep Throat
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2006
- The Making of 'Network'
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2006
- Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2006
- The Nuremberg Trials
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2006
- Return to Flight HD: The Inside Story
  Host
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2006
- A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2005
- Edward R. Murrow - The McCarthy Years
  Host
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2005
- Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2004
- America's Choir: The Story of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
  Narrator
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2004
- Liberty's Kids - The Boston Tea Party
  Benjamin Franklin
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2004
- Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2004
- Journalists: Killed in the Line of Duty
  Narrator (voice)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2003
- JFK: Breaking the News
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2003
- Silent Night, Holy Night with Walter Cronkite
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2003
- JFK II: The Bush Connection
  Self - Anchor, CBS News (voice) (archive sound)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2003
- Amateur Radio Today
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2003
- S.O.S. Planet
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2002
- Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
  Self (voice)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2002
- Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story
  Self (uncredited)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2002
- O Holy Night: Christmas At Concordia
  Narrator
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2001
- Korean War Stories
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2001
- On Common Ground
  Self - Commentator
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2001
- Thirteen Days
  Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2000
- Fail Safe
  Self - Host
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2000
- Television: The First Fifty Years
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1999
- 4 Little Girls
  Self - Special Correspondent CBS News
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1997
- Corwin
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1996
- All Power to the People!
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1996
- The Secret of the Wild Child
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1994
- We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
  Captain Neweyes (voice)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1993
- As it Happened: The Killing of Kennedy
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1993
- Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
  Self - CBS News
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1993
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien
  
  - Walter Cronkite, Fred Armisen, Ben Harper (2004) ... Self - Guest actor actors
  
  1993
- The Real Malcolm X
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1992
- Titanic: Treasure of the Deep
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1992
- The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1991
- Nixon
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1990
- Night of 100 Stars III
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1990
- Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1990
- 50 Years of Television: A Golden Celebration
  Self - Host
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1989
- Back to Neverland
  Walter Cronkite
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1989
- John F. Kennedy and the Memory of a Nation
  Self - Host
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1989
- Who Shot President Kennedy?
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1988
- An Empire of Reason
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1988
- Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1988
- American Experience
  
  - The American Vice President (2024) ... Self (archive footage) actor actors
  
  - The Nuremberg Trials (2006) ... Self actor actors
  
  1988
- Murphy Brown
  
  - Roasted (1989) ... Walter Cronkite actor actors
  
  1988
- American Masters
  
  - Starring Dick Van Dyke (2025) ... Self - Interviewee (archive footage) actor actors
  
  1986
- The Dream Is Alive
  Narrator
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1985
- J.F.K.: A One-Man Show
  Self - Narrator
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1984
- I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind
  Self - Host
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1983
- 1984 Revisited
  Himself
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1983
- Why was Cairo Calm
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1982
- Walt Disney: One Man's Dream
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1981
- A Private Battle
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1980
- Hispanic America
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1980
- Network
  Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1976
- All the President's Men
  Self (archive sound) (uncredited)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1976
- New England Our Way
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1974
- Great Performances
  
  - Episode 1 (1987) ... Self - Host actor actors
  
  1971
- The Movie Orgy
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1968
- The Dick Cavett Show
  
  - Walter Cronkite (1974) ... Self - Guest actor actors
  
  1968
- The Making of an Underground Film
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1965
- CBS Reports: Biography of a Bookie Joint
  Self - Narrator
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1961
- The Mike Douglas Show
  
  - Episode 5 (1980) ... Self actor actors
  
  - Episode 4 (1980) ... Self actor actors
  
  - Episode 2 (1980) ... Self actor actors
  
  - Episode 67 (1970) ... Self actor actors
  
  1961
- The Incredible Turk
  Narrator
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1958
- The Wonderful World of Disney
  
  - Walt Disney...One Man's Dream (1981) ... Self actor actors
  
  1954
- Climax!
  
  - The Escape of Mendes-France (1955) ... Self - Narrator (voice) actor actors
  
  1954
- The Price of Liberty
  Narrator(voice)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1951
- Golden Globe Awards
  
  - The 18th Golden Globe Awards (1961) ... Self - Nominee actor actors
  
  1944
crew (1 credits)
- Apollo 13
  thanks
  
  crew
  
  1995