Seymour Hersh

Seymour Hersh

Known for

Acting

Born

April 8, 1937 (age 89)

Birthplace

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Biography

Seymour Myron Hersh is an American investigative journalist and political writer. He gained recognition in 1969 for exposing the My Lai massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.

Best known work

Cover-Up
Cover-Up
2025
Wormwood
Wormwood
2017
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
2002
The Dick Cavett Show
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
Shadow World
Shadow World
2016
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
2011
War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State
War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State
2013
Buying the Bomb
Buying the Bomb
1985

Filmography

  1. 2025

    Cover-Up

    as Self - Investigative Journalist

  2. 2017

    WormwoodTV

    as Self (archive footage) (1 episode), as Self - Investigative Journalist (1 episode)

  3. 2016

    Shadow World

    as Self - Journalist (archive footage)

  4. 2013

    War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State

    as Self - Journalist

  5. 2011

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

    as Self

  6. 2002

    The Trials of Henry Kissinger

    as Self

  7. 1985

    Buying the Bomb

    as Self

  8. 1968

    The Dick Cavett ShowTV

    as Self - Guest (1 episode)

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