Joseph McCarthy

Biography

Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death at age 48 in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread communist subversion. He alleged that numerous communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers had infiltrated the United States federal government, universities, film industry, and elsewhere. Ultimately he was censured by the Senate in 1954 for refusing to cooperate with and abusing members of the committee established to investigate whether or not he should be censured. The term "McCarthyism", coined in 1950 in reference to McCarthy's practices, was soon applied to similar anti-communist activities. Today the term is used more broadly to mean demagogic, reckless, and unsubstantiated accusations, as well as public attacks on the character or patriotism of political opponents.

Known For

Greatest Events of World War II in Colour

Good Night, and Good Luck.

The Lincoln Project

Hearts and Minds

RBG

RBG

Where's My Roy Cohn?

Coup 53

All Movies (21)

• The Real Charlie Chaplin2021 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Soul of America2020 · as Self (archive footage)
• McCarthy2020 · as Self - (archive footage)
• Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn2019 · as Self (archive footage)
• Where's My Roy Cohn?2019 · as Self (archive footage)
• Coup 532019 · as Self - Politician (archive footage)
• The Lavender Scare2019 · as Self (archive footage)
• RBG2018 · as Self (archive footage)
• RBG2018 · as Self (uncredited)
• Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America2017 · as Self (uncredited)
• Imminent Threat2015 · as Self (archive footage)
• Ethel2012 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer2008 · as Self (archive footage)
• Good Night, and Good Luck.2005 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Heir To An Execution2004 · as Self - Senator
• The Day After Trinity1980 · as Self (archive footage)
• McCarthy: Death of a Witch Hunter1975 · as Self (archive footage)
• Hearts and Minds1974 · as Self (archive footage)
• Grierson1973 · as Self (archive footage)
• USA: danger from the right. Demoniac from Wisconsin1971 · as Archive Footage
• Point of Order!1964 · as Self

All TV Shows (2)

• The Lincoln Project2022 · as Self (archive footage)
• Greatest Events of World War II in Colour2019 · as Self (archive footage)