Name
Ted Turner
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1938-11-19
Deathday
2026-05-06 (88 years old)
Place of Birth
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Biography
Robert Edward Turner III (November 19, 1938 — May 6, 2026) was an American media proprietor and producer, known for having founded the Cable News Network (CNN) and WTBS, later known as TBS. He was also owner of World Championship Wrestling (WCW) during the 1990s.
Known For
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In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virgin...
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Follows the personal and professional life of Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson, a brilliant if e...
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WCW grew out of a southern promotion, into a giant that battled World Wrestling Entertainm...
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Very few Icons have at once embodied the Myths of their own country while revealing its co...
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Darryl Palmer is a major league baseball player who meets and pursues an attractive singer...
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This documentary follows superstar Bret Hart during his last year in the WWF. The film doc...
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Girl next door, activist, so-called traitor, fitness tycoon, Oscar winner: Jane Fonda has ...
- 2010 Global Eugenics: Using Medicine to Kill as Himself
- 2013 Population Boom as Self
- 1997 The Race to Save 100 Years as Self
- Soon It's a Long Way to October as Self
- 2003 Gods and Generals as Col. Tazewell Patton
- 2020 Citizen Jane Fonda
- 2018 Jane Fonda in Five Acts as Self - (archive footage)
- 2009 The Rise & Fall of WCW as Self (archive footage)
- 2004 Cartoon Network Christmas: Yuletide Follies as (archive footage)
- 1998 Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows as Self (archive footage)
- 1993 Gettysburg as Col. Walter T. Patton
- 1989 A Dialogue: A Conversation with Carl Sagan and Ted Turner as Host
- 1985 The Slugger's Wife as Darryl Fan (uncredited)
- 1982 Ted Turner: The Man from Atlanta as Self
- 1996 Arli$$ ( 1 episode ) as Ted Turner
- 1996 E! True Hollywood Story ( 1 episode )
- 1968 60 Minutes ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1990 Captain Planet and the Planeteers ( 1 episode ) as Fred Learner (voice)
- 2024 Call Me Ted ( 6 episodes ) as Self (archive footage)
- 1980 CNN Special Report ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1961 The Mike Douglas Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
