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Filmography of J. Edgar Hoover

Known as: Institution

1 title in the archive · first depicted 1968

Lived1895 – 1972

Shelfmark Vita CLXXXVII

1
title
1 film
4.0/5
average rating
across 1 rated title
2h 5m
on screen
across 1 title

2 years of a 77 year life depicted onscreen

Distinct years the archive depicts, against J. Edgar Hoover’s lifetime (1895 – 1972) — 2.6% of it.

Depicted in

19681969

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The Box Office Ledger

What the films portraying J. Edgar Hoover cost to make and took at the worldwide box office, as TMDB records them.

$26 million
in budgets
over 1 film with both sums
$6.4 million
at the box office
over 1 film with both sums
0.2×
of budget recouped
took less than it cost
Budget and box office of each film
FilmBudgetBox office
Judas and the Black Messiah$26,000,000$6,416,063

US dollars as TMDB records them, not adjusted for inflation. 1 film of the 1 portraying them carries either sum.