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Birthday: Feb 20, 1927
Place of Birth: New York City, USA

Roy Cohn

Roy Marcus Cohn (February 20, 1927 – August 2, 1986) was an American lawyer and prosecutor who came to prominence for his role as Senator Joseph McCarthy's chief counsel during the Army–McCarthy hearings in 1954, when he assisted McCarthy's investigations of suspected communists. In the late 1970s and during the 1980s, he became a prominent political fixer in New York City. He also represented and mentored the real estate developer and later U.S. President Donald Trump during his early business career. Cohn was born in The Bronx in New York City and educated at Columbia University. He rose to prominence as a U.S. Department of Justice prosecutor at the espionage trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, where he successfully prosecuted the Rosenbergs leading to their execution in 1953. As a prosecuting chief counsel during the trials, his reputation deteriorated during the late 1950s to late 1970s after McCarthy's downfall. In 1986, he was disbarred by the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court for unethical conduct after attempting to defraud a dying client by forcing the client to sign a will amendment leaving him his fortune. He died five weeks later from AIDS-related complications, having vehemently denied that he was suffering from HIV. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roy Cohn, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography
Movie Cast Year
Good Night, and Good Luck. Self (archive footage) (uncredited) 2005
Studio 54 Self (archive footage) 2018
Trump, le parrain de Manhattan 2018
Where's My Roy Cohn? Himself (archive footage) 2019
Get Me Roger Stone Self (archive footage) 2017
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn Self (archive footage) 2019
Point of Order! Self 1964
McCarthy: Death of a Witch Hunter Self (archive footage) 1975
The Unquiet Death of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Self 1974
The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump Self (archive footage) 2024
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