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Morley Safer

Birth Name:
Morley Safer
Birth Place:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Profession
Actor
Morley Safer

Fast Facts

  • A three-time George Foster Peabody Award winner, Safer has also received Brown University's Welles Hangen Award for Superior Achievement in Journalism and was named a knight of the French government's Order of Arts and Letters
  • His special report "School for the Homeless," which documented a school attempting to provide education to over one million homeless children in America, earned him the Robert F․ Kennedy Journalism Award First Prize for Domestic Television
  • Attended Harbord Collegiate Institute and Clinton Street Public School in Ontario, and briefly attended at the University of Western Ontario
  • Before landing a position at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, started his journalism career as a reporter for a number of Canadian newspapers, including Woodstock Sentinel Review, London Free Press and Toronto Telegram
  • Quote: "(On his work as a journalist) "It's not literary, I wouldn't presume to suggest that․ But I think you can elevate it a little bit sometimes with the most important part of the medium, which is what people are saying․․․ It's not literature, but it can be very classy journalism․""
  • After serving as the London bureau chief for CBS News, replaced journalist Harry Reasoner on "60 Minutes․"
  • First joined CBS News in 1964 as a London-based correspondent and one year later opened the news bureau in Saigon
  • Considered a pioneer in TV war coverage when he first reported on the 1956 Egypt-Israel conflict
  • His report on a "search and destroy" mission with a group of U․S․ Marines was among the first to portray the Vietnam War in a colder, bleaker light
  • His 1967 report "Morley Safer's Red China Diary" was the first report broadcast from inside the Communist country by an American network

Awards

  • 1993Emmy - Outstanding Informational or Cultural Programming - Segments:Nominated
  • 1993Emmy - Outstanding Background/Analysis of a Single Current Story - Segments:Nominated
  • 1995Emmy - Outstanding Historical Programming - Segments:Nominated
  • 1997Emmy - Outstanding Coverage of a Continuing News Story - Segments:Winner
  • 1997Emmy - Outstanding Informational or Cultural Programming - Segments:Winner
  • 1998Emmy - Outstanding Historical Programming - Segments:Winner
  • 2000Emmy - Outstanding Coverage of a Continuing News Story - Segments:Winner
  • 2003Emmy - Outstanding Interpretation and/or Analysis of a Business News Story:Nominated
  • 2003Emmy - Outstanding Coverage of a Continuing News Story in a News Magazine:Nominated
  • 2004WGA Award (TV) - News - Analysis, Feature or Commentary:Nominated
  • 2005WGA Award (TV) - News - Analysis, Feature or Commentary:Nominated
  • 2006WGA Award (TV) - News - Analysis, Feature or Commentary:Nominated
  • 2007Emmy - Outstanding Arts & Culture Programming:Nominated
  • 2009Emmy - Outstanding Arts & Culture Programming:Nominated
  • 2013Emmy - Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Writing:Nominated
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