J. Edgar Hoover

J. Edgar Hoover was born on Jan 01, 1895 in USA. J. Edgar Hoover's big-screen debut came with 'G' Men directed by William Keighley in 1935. J. Edgar Hoover is known for 'G' Men directed by William Keighley, James Cagney stars as 'Brick' Davis and Margaret Lindsay as Kay McCord. The upcoming new movie J. Edgar Hoover plays is Operation Abolition which will be released on Jan 29, 1962.

John Edgar Hoover was an American law enforcement administrator who served as the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. He was appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation - the FBI's predecessor - in 1924 and was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director for another 37 years until his death in 1972 at the age of 77. Hoover built the FBI into a larger crime-fighting agency than it was at its inception and instituted a number of modernization's to police technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories. Hoover also established and expanded a national blacklist, referred to as the FBI Index or Index List.