External links
 | This article related to an American TV movie is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
| J. Edgar Hoover | |
|---|---|
| Genre | |
| Based on | The Bureau: My 30 Years in Hoover's FBI by
|
| Written by | Robert L. Collins |
| Directed by | Robert L. Collins |
| Starring | Treat Williams |
| Music by | J. Peter Robinson |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producers |
|
| Producer | Robert L. Collins |
| Cinematography | Tim Suhrstedt |
| Editor | Patrick Kennedy |
| Running time | 108 minutes |
| Production companies |
|
| Original release | |
| Network | Showtime |
| Release | January 11, 1987 |
J. Edgar Hoover is a 1987 American biographical drama television film written and directed by Robert L. Collins. It stars Treat Williams as the eponymous J. Edgar Hoover, the long-serving (1924 - 1972) Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The film is based on the 1979 book The Bureau: My 30 Years in Hoover's FBI by William C. Sullivan and William S. Brown, and dramatizes key points in Hoover's life between the time he joined the U.S. Justice Department in 1919 and 1970. It aired on Showtime on January 11, 1987.
| | This article related to an American TV movie is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |