The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby

The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby (2024)

2024

Drama / Documentary / History

6.4 from 10 with total 11 votes

2011-09-23

104 minutes

A personal exploration into the life of America\'s controversial former CIA Director told through the eyes of his wife and filmmaker son, Carl. Through extraordinary events in twentieth century history, this consummate soldier/spy stood at the center of the Agency\'s most clandestine activities and operations. The film reveals the \'cover life\' of this CIA operative, who followed orders and took on the dirtiest assignments until the Nixon Administration ordered him to \'stonewall\' Congress about the CIA\'s past abuses, but he refused. This film reveals why, for the first time, he could not obey.

William Colby character Self (archive footage)

Zbigniew Brzezinski character Self - Former National Security Advisor

Seymour Hersh character Self

Donald Rumsfeld character Self

George H. W. Bush character Self (archive footage)

John F. Kennedy character Self (archive footage)

Robert F. Kennedy character Self (voice) (archive footage)

Henry Kissinger character Self (archive footage)

Henry Cabot Lodge character Self (archive footage)

Robert McNamara character Self - Secretary of Defense (voice) (archive footage)

Pope Pius XII character Self (archive footage)

Richard Nixon character Self (archive footage)

Ronald Reagan character Self (archive footage)

Nelson Rockefeller character Self (archive footage)

Dean Rusk character Self - Secretary of State (voice) (archive footage)

Bella Abzug character Self (archive footage) (uncredited)