From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911–June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989), the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975) and prior to that, an actor. Reagan was born in Tampico in Whiteside County, Illinois, reared in Dixon in Lee County, Illinois, and educated at Eureka College in Eureka, Illinois, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and sociology. Upon his graduation, Reagan first moved to Iowa to work as a radio broadcaster and then in 1937 to Los Angeles, California. He began a career as an actor, first in films and later television, appearing in over 50 movie productions and earning enough success to become a famous, publicly recognized figure. Some of his most notable roles are in Knute Rockne, All American and Kings Row. Reagan served as president of the Screen Actors Guild, and later spokesman for General Electric (GE); his start in politics occurred during his work for GE. Originally a member of the Democratic Party, he switched to the Republican Party in 1962. After delivering a rousing speech in support of Barry Goldwater's presidential candidacy in 1964, he was persuaded to seek the California governorship, winning two years later and again in 1970. He was defeated in his run for the Republican presidential nomination in 1968 as well as 1976, but won both the nomination and election, defeating incumbent Jimmy Carter in 1980. As president, Reagan implemented sweeping new political and economic initiatives. His supply-side economic policies, dubbed "Reaganomics," advocated reducing tax rates to spur economic growth, controlling the money supply to reduce inflation, deregulation of the economy, and reducing government spending. In his first term he survived an assassination attempt, took a hard line against labor unions, and ordered military actions in Grenada. He was reelected in a landslide in 1984, proclaiming it was "Morning in America." His second term was primarily marked by foreign matters, such as the ending of the Cold War, the 1986 bombing of Libya, and the revelation of the Iran-Contra affair. Publicly describing the Soviet Union as an "evil empire," he supported anti-Communist movements worldwide and spent his first term forgoing the strategy of détente by ordering a massive military buildup in an arms race with the USSR. Reagan negotiated with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, culminating in the INF Treaty and the decrease of both countries' nuclear arsenals. Reagan left office in 1989. In 1994, the former president disclosed that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease earlier in the year; he died ten years later at the age of 93. He ranks highly in public opinion polls of U.S. Presidents, and is a conservative icon. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ronald Reagan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movie | Mike Wallace Is Here | Self (archive footage) | 2019-07-26 |
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Movie | The Road to Mass Incarceration | Self | 2018-06-13 |
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Movie | ¡Las Sandinistas! | Himself (archive footage) | 2018-03-12 |
Movie | Studio 54 | Self (archive footage) | 2018-06-15 |
Movie | King Bibi | Self (archive footage) | 2018-08-05 |
Movie | The Corporate Coup D'État | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2018-11-18 |
Movie | Vice | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2018-12-25 |
Movie | Game Changers | Self (archive footage) | 2018-06-29 |
Movie | Above Majestic | Self (archive footage) | 2018-10-30 |
Movie | ReMastered: Who Shot the Sheriff | Self (archive footage) | 2018-10-12 |
Movie | Reversing Roe | Self (archive footage) | 2018-09-01 |
Movie | Get Me Roger Stone | Self (archive footage) | 2017-04-23 |
Movie | Atomic Blonde | Self (archive footage) | 2017-07-26 |
Movie | The Reagan Show | Self (archive footage) | 2017-04-22 |
Movie | Der Reichstag | Self (archive footage) | 2017-12-19 |
Movie | The Arrow of Time | Self (archive footage) | 2017-10-03 |
Movie | American Made | Himself (archive footage) | 2017-08-18 |
Movie | This Is Bob Hope... | Self (archive footage) | 2017-12-29 |
Movie | Silk Road: Drugs, Death and the Dark Web | Himself (archive footage) | 2017-08-21 |
Movie | Zero Days | Self (archive footage) | 2016-07-08 |
Movie | The Occupation of the American Mind | Self (archive footage) | 2016-01-19 |
Movie | How to Win the US Presidency | Self (archive footage) | 2016-08-01 |
Movie | HyperNormalisation | Self (archive footage) | 2016-10-25 |
Movie | The Billboard Boys | Himself (Archive Footage) | 2016-09-25 |
Movie | Shadow World | Self - Politician (archive footage) | 2016-10-14 |
Movie | 13th | Self (archive footage) | 2016-10-07 |
Movie | Laissez-faire | Self (archive footage) | 2015-01-30 |
Movie | Bitter Lake | Self (archive footage) | 2015-01-24 |
Movie | Uncovering Wolfen | Self (archive footage) | 2015-02-02 |
Movie | The Making of Trump | Self (archive footage) | 2015-11-30 |
Movie | Trumbo | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2015-10-27 |
Movie | Geheimauftrag Pontifex – Der Vatikan im Kalten Krieg | himself | 2015-05-20 |
Movie | The Emperor's New Clothes | Self (archive footage) | 2015-04-24 |
Movie | All Eyes and Ears | Self | 2015-04-20 |
Movie | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
Movie | Unwarranted Influence | 2014-07-04 | |
Movie | Our Nixon | Self | 2013-01-23 |
Movie | Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored | Self (archive footage) | 2013-01-29 |
Movie | The Presidents' Gatekeepers | Self (archive footage) | 2013-09-12 |
Movie | JFK Remembered: 50 Years Later | Self | 2013-11-12 |
Movie | Propaganda | Self (archive footage) | 2013-02-14 |
Movie | Koch | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2013-02-01 |
Movie | An Escalator in World Order | Self (archive footage) | 2012-07-26 |
Movie | 41 | Self (archive footage) | 2012-06-12 |
Movie | The House I Live In | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2012-10-05 |
Series | Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States | Himself | 2012-11-12 |
Movie | A Night at the Movies: Hollywood Goes to Washington | Self (archive footage) | 2012-10-05 |
Movie | The Untold History Of The United States | Self (archive footage) | 2012-11-12 |
Movie | The Undefeated | Self - President of the United States (archive footage) | 2011-07-15 |
Movie | Reagan | Self (archive footage) | 2011-02-07 |
Movie | The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby | Self (archive footage) | 2011-09-23 |
Movie | Nancy Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime | Archival footage | 2010-02-06 |
Movie | How to Win the TV Debate | Self (archive footage) | 2010-04-12 |
Movie | Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics | Self (archive footage) | 2010-11-09 |
Movie | Beyond the Black Rainbow | Self (archive footage) | 2010-12-03 |
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Movie | The War on Democracy | Self (Archive Footage) | 2007-06-15 |
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Series | National Archives WWII: Air War | 2006-05-06 | |
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Series | E! True Hollywood Story | Unknown | 1996-08-21 |
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Movie | Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1983-02-25 |
Movie | EPCOT Center: A Souvenir Program | Self | 1983-01-02 |
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Series | This Is Your Life | Unknown | 1952-10-01 |
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Movie | It's a Great Feeling | Ronald Reagan (uncredited) | 1949-08-01 |
Movie | Night Unto Night | John Galen | 1949-06-10 |
Series | The Ed Sullivan Show | Unknown | 1948-06-20 |
Movie | Blow-Ups of 1947 | Self | 1947-12-31 |
Movie | The Voice of the Turtle | Sergeant Bill Page | 1947-12-25 |
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Movie | Blow-Ups of 1946 | Self | 1946-12-31 |
Movie | The Fight for the Sky | Narrator (voice) | 1945-06-21 |
Movie | B-29 Flight Engineer | Narrator / Voice of Pilot (voice) | 1944-03-13 |
Movie | This Is the Army | Johnny Jones | 1943-08-14 |
Movie | The Rear Gunner | Lt. Ames | 1943-04-10 |
Movie | Recognition of the Japanese Zero Fighter | Jimmy Saunders | 1943-02-02 |
Movie | For God and Country | Michael O'Keefe | 1943-05-15 |
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Movie | Kings Row | Drake McHugh | 1942-02-02 |
Movie | Juke Girl | Steve Talbot | 1942-05-30 |
Movie | Breakdowns of 1942 | Self | 1942-12-31 |
Movie | Mr. Gardenia Jones | Gardenia Jones | 1942-05-29 |
Movie | Beyond the Line of Duty | Narrator (voice) | 1942-11-07 |
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Movie | Million Dollar Baby | Peter Rowan | 1941-05-31 |
Movie | The Bad Man | Gil Jones | 1941-03-28 |
Movie | Breakdowns of 1941 | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1941-11-14 |
Movie | Nine Lives Are Not Enough | Matt Sawyer | 1941-09-20 |
Movie | International Squadron | Jimmy Grant | 1941-08-13 |
Movie | Brother Rat and a Baby | Dan Crawford | 1940-01-13 |
Movie | Alice in Movieland | Carlo's Guest (uncredited) | 1940-03-03 |
Movie | An Angel from Texas | Marty Allen | 1940-04-27 |
Movie | Breakdowns of 1940 | Self | 1940-12-31 |
Movie | Santa Fe Trail | George Custer | 1940-12-20 |
Movie | Tugboat Annie Sails Again | Eddie Kent | 1940-10-26 |
Movie | Murder in the Air | Brass Bancroft | 1940-06-01 |
Movie | Knute Rockne All American | George Gipp | 1940-10-05 |
Movie | Code of the Secret Service | Brass Bancroft | 1939-05-27 |
Movie | Secret Service of the Air | Lt. 'Brass' Bancroft | 1939-03-04 |
Movie | Dark Victory | Alec | 1939-04-20 |
Movie | Naughty But Nice | Eddie | 1939-06-23 |
Movie | Breakdowns of 1939 | Self | 1939-12-31 |
Movie | Smashing the Money Ring | Lt. Brass Bancroft | 1939-10-21 |
Movie | Angels Wash Their Faces | Patrick "Pat" Remson | 1939-08-26 |
Movie | Hell's Kitchen | Jim Donahue | 1939-07-08 |
Movie | Hollywood Hotel | Radio Host at Premiere (uncredited) | 1938-01-15 |
Movie | Sergeant Murphy | Pvt. Dennis Reilley | 1938-01-01 |
Movie | Accidents Will Happen | Eric Gregg | 1938-04-09 |
Movie | Swing Your Lady | Jack Miller | 1938-01-08 |
Movie | The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse | Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited) | 1938-07-20 |
Movie | Breakdowns of 1938 | Ronald (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1938-12-31 |
Movie | Going Places | Jack Withering | 1938-12-31 |
Movie | Cowboy from Brooklyn | Pat Dunn | 1938-07-09 |
Movie | Brother Rat | Dan Crawford | 1938-10-29 |
Movie | Boy Meets Girl | Announcer | 1938-08-27 |
Movie | Girls on Probation | Neil Dillon | 1938-10-22 |
Movie | Love Is on the Air | Andy McCaine | 1937-10-02 |
Movie | The Birth of a Nation | Kid in Sheet | 1915-02-08 |