David Strathairn
David Strathairn
David Russell Strathairnis an American actor. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for portraying journalist Edward R. Murrow in Good Night, and Good Luck. He is recognized for his role as CIA Deputy Director Noah Vosen in the 2007 film The Bourne Ultimatum, a role he reprised in 2012's The Bourne Legacy. He played a prominent role as Dr. Lee Rosen on the Syfy series Alphas from 2011 to 2012 and played Secretary of State William Henry...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth26 January 1949
CitySan Francisco, CA
CountryUnited States of America
It would be real nice to have some kind of bell or whistle attached to this film - it would give it a longer life. People seem to need that validation to go to a film these days.
Ed Murrow said that it would be a bad day for television if those who have most money control the marketplace of ideas. He said that in 1950. It's coming to pass.
I think he was honoring a lot of sentiment in the community and trying to do what was right. His choice not to have football for the remainder of that season, I think, was a very important one because he said it's important for the families to be together and grieve, and it might just be too raw a moment to have a football game out there too soon.
You kind of get pigeonholed for various reasons. One thing I didn't do in this movie (that) I regret not doing was taking a pratfall. I think, as great as Edward R. Murrow was, in terms of cinema, you've gotta honor those great clowns.
I think George just nailed the whole thing, the whole time period, the whole look and feel of what that newsroom was like. I did a lot of research for the role and believe me, it's all pretty genuine, down to the very last cigarette butt.
When I first saw a rough cut of it, I knew it was going to have some kind of bells and whistles.
If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.
It's like a piece of music; you never lose sight of the theme. Each scene pushes off to the next like music builds and you can almost hear the next chord progression, so it has a strict structure, which is very compelling.
It was a process of listening, listening, watching, listening, reading, more and more.
It was like another finger, just this finger he always kept lit, ... It was always there, it seems; they said they never saw him without it.
I tried all different kinds of tobacco to see which would be the least crippling and I ended up with pipe tobacco, ... I found that that burned less harshly. It also smelled better.
I checked out all types of tobacco trying to find one that would be easiest to live with, I ended up using pipe tobacco. It burned slower, and it wasn't as harsh on my throat... It also smelled better.
Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.
It's either the Amendment or this Confederate peace. You cannot have both.