Skip to content
Morley Safer profile photo

Acting

Morley Safer

Born
Nov 8, 1931 · Aged 84
Died
May 19, 2016
Place of birth
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Gender
Male
Movie credits
21
TV credits
9

Biography

Morley Safer (November 8, 1931 – May 19, 2016) was a Canadian-American broadcast journalist, reporter, and correspondent for CBS News. He was best known for his long tenure on the news magazine 60 Minutes, whose cast he joined in 1970 after its second year on television. He was the longest-serving reporter on 60 Minutes. During his 60-year career as a broadcast journalist, Safer received numerous awards, including 12 Emmys, a Lifetime Achievement Emmy from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, three Overseas Press Awards, three Peabody Awards, two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia…