William James O'Reilly, Jr. net worth is $100 Million
William James O'Reilly, Jr. salary is $20 Million
William James O'Reilly, Jr. Wiki Biography
William James O’Reilly, Jr. was born on 10th September 1949, in New York City, USA of Irish descent. He is known as a political commentator, syndicated columnist, television host and author of books. The television program “The O’Reilly Factor”, which is hosted by Bill himself, is a popular show in which he might be seen every weekday. In the USA, it is the most watched program broadcast on cable TV. Bill O’Reilly has been active in the industry since 1975.
Is this well known political commentator rich? It has been estimated that his net worth is as much as $100 million. His annual salary from “The O’Reilly Factor” has increased from $10 million to $20 million. More, he received $28 million from the sales of his books in 2014 alone.
Bill O’Reilly Net Worth $100 Million
Concerning his education, after leaving high school he enrolled into the Queen Mary University of London. Later, Bill graduated with his Bachelor of Arts at Marist College, Master of Arts at Boston University and finally, Master of Public Administration at Harvard University.
Who would have said that the television news reporter who worked at WNEP-TV in Scranton would become such a well known political commentator? Later, Bill worked for WFAA-TV in Dallas, and while working there he received the Dallas Press Club Award. This was followed by the Emmy Award while working for KMGH-Tv in Denver. An investigation of corrupt city leaders was worth his second Emmy which was won while working at WCBS News. Afterwards, he worked in ABC News. From 1989 to 1995, Bill O’Reilly worked as a presenter of a syndicated news magazine program entitled “Inside Edition”. Since 1996, he has worked on “The O’Reilly Factor” as a creator and presenter of the show, which is popular for its controversial political issues and is loved by audiences. The program holds top position according to the ratings and averages two million people a month watching the show.
In addition to this, Bill O’Reilly is the author of books which is also a very important source of his net worth. As a writer he debuted with the novel published by Broadway Books “Those Who Trespass: A Novel of Television and Murder” (1998). The other publishings Broadway Books has presented are the following works by Bill O’Reilly, including “The O’Reilly Factor: The Good, the Bad, and the Completely Ridiculous in American Life” (2000), “The No Spin Zone” (2001), “Who’s Looking Out For You?” (2003), “Culture Warrior” (2006), “A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity: A Memoir” (2008).
Since 2011, the author has been signed to the publisher Henry Holt and Co. His latest works printed by the above mentioned publisher were “Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot” (2012), “Kennedy’s Last Days: The Assassination That Defined a Generation” (2013), “The Last Days of Jesus: His Life and Times” (2014), “Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II’s Most Audacious General” (2014) and “Bill O’Reilly’s Legends and Lies: Into the West” (2015).
In his personal life, in 1996 Bill O’Reilly married public relations executive Maureen E. McPhilmy. Together they have two children: a son and daughter, but divorced in 2011. Currently, Bill resides in the suburb of Manhasset, New York, USA.
[His advice to the youth of America] Young pinheads: work hard, be honest, get off the internet, travel as much as you can, find your passion, find out what your good at: make money doing it.
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[on the inspiration for the book "Killing Jesus"]I'm not the chosen one, I'm just one of many who've been given gifts. I can write and I can bloviate on TV. So I'm trying to use the gifts in a positive way. And I believe that's all directed and that's why I'm here on the planet.
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All of the ideas come to me in the middle of the night, and one night I just woke up and I went "Killing Jesus". And I believe, because I'm a Catholic, that comes from the Holy Spirit. My inspiration comes from that and so I wrote "Killing Jesus" because I think I was directed to write that.
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I knew Howard [Stern], because he was the only guy in [Boston University] taller than me. And he has a big 'fro. He was always stoned. When I was walking around, I would go, "Oh, there is Howard," you know? We, of course, didn't know he was going to be a big media star, we just hoped he could get to the bathroom. I know what it took for Howard Stern to become successful, because he is like me. No uncle in the business, had to work his way up, cut through a whole bunch of BS. And I admire that. Would I do what he does? No. Do I object to what he does? No.
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(On the on-going feud with his Fox News competitor, Keith Olbermann, on MSNBC) There is no feud! I've never mentioned the man's name in my life and I will never mention it! There is no feud! There is no nemesis!
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I've said 'shut up' six times in 12 years and they all deserved it. They were either bloviating, filibustering or lying.
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[His impression of Harvard University] Well, the faculty at the Kennedy School of Government was pretty good when I was there. The most interesting class I had was 'Persuasion', and I use a lot of the points I learned there on the air to try to get people to listen to you so they understand it.
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What's the difference between the KKK and Arianna Huffington? What's the difference? I don't see any difference between Huffington and the Nazis.
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The Soros-Lewis mob despises Fox News because we have their number and we report on them accurately. They use the MoveOn web site to smear this network and others with whom they disagree. These people use techniques perfected by Dr. Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi minister of information. They lie, distort, defame, all the time. So it's not surprising that MoveOn objected to a debate sponsored by Fox News and the Nevada Democratic Party.
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Joseph Goebbels was the Minister of Propaganda for the Nazi regime and whose very famous quote was, "If you tell a lie long enough, it becomes the truth." All right? "If you tell a lie long enough, it becomes the truth." And that's what Stuart Smalley and Michael Moore and all of these guys do. They just run around.
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When I am dead, my tombstone will read, 'He finally stopped talking.'
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Because look ... when 2 percent of the population feels that you're doing them a favor, just forget it, you're not going to win. You're not going to win. And I don't have any respect by and large for the Iraqi people at all. I have no respect for them. I think that they're a prehistoric group that is -- yeah, there's excuses.
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If you get to be as smart and as talented as me, you'll have a show. That won't happen.
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My thesis, you may know, is that nobody should ever talk about their sexuality in any - in any regard ever. You should not define yourself that way. It just makes life a lot rougher. So, therefore, I would probably say, if you're a gay celebrity, shut up about it.
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My father didn't tell me anything. My father just said: 'Shut up. Eat your food. There are people starving in Korea,' but he didn't - he didn't offer a lot of career counseling, but he never discouraged me.
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Does anyone know where the Best Men are? I hope they're not in the parking lot stealing our hubcaps.
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We'd save lives because Mexicans, "wetbacks"- whatever you want to call them-, the coyotes - they're not going to do what they're doing now, so people aren't going to die in the desert. So we save lives, all right, and we seal it down and make it one hundred times harder to come across.
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Generally speaking, the elite media believe that the majority in this country -- white Christian Americans -- are prone to oppressing the minority. The elites rightfully point to the civil rights struggle as an example of how the majority can hurt a minority until the forces of reason stepped in.
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And the elites firmly believe that not much has changed in 40 years; that white Christian-Americans must be kept in check, or they will violate minority rights.
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You are about to enter a no-spin zone!
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He is of Irish ancestry, except for one of his maternal great-grandmothers, who was of Colonial American descent, including English and some French Huguenot.
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Release of his book, "A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity: A Memoir". [2008]
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Release of his book, "Who's Looking Out For You". [2003]
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Release of his book, "The No Spin Zone: Confrontations with the Powerful and Famous in America". [2001]
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Release of his book, "Kids Are Americans Too". [2007]
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Release of his book, "Culture Warrior". [2006]
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Release of his book, "Pinheads and Patriots: Where You Stand in the Age of Obama". [2010]
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His first job was, at age 16, at Carvel Ice Cream. Later, had a job as a lifeguard.
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His wife Maureen is reported to have much more politically liberal beliefs than him.
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Considers Boston as his second home. Parents met there, he attended school (Boston University, Harvard University) there, first journalist job there.
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When O'Reilly expressed his staunch opposition to the erection of a mosque near the former site of Manhattan's Twin Towers on The View: Episode dated 14 October 2010 (2010), both Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar walked off the set in protest. Shortly after host Barbara Walters defended O'Reilly's right to his opinion, both co-hosts Goldberg and Behar later returned to their seats.
Sued by former The O'Reilly Factor (1996) associate producer Andrea Mackris, who accused him of sexual harassment. An out of court settlement was reached 15 days later, O'Reilly reportedly paying Mackris over $2 million without admitting guilt or issuing an apology. No guilt was ever proven on O'Reilly's part, however. (13 October 2004).
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Wife Maureen was born on May 11, 1966; making her almost 17 years her husband's junior.
In 2002, he successfully started "The Radio Factor"... a 2-hour radio version of The O'Reilly Factor (1996).
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Attended Chaminade High School, Mineola, New York.
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He has two young children: a daughter, Madeline (born in 1998) and a son, Spencer (born in 2003).
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While he was a reporter at WNEP-TV in Scranton, Pennsylvania, he also wrote the jokes for "Uncle Ted's Ghoul School," a Saturday night monster movie show.
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He was a high school teacher from 1971-1973 after graduating from Marist. He taught both History and English at Monsignor Edward Pace High School, a school founded by the Marist Order in Opa-Locka, Florida, located in North Miami-Dade. He also assisted with the school's baseball team.
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While at Marist, he claimed to have played quarterback, punter, and kicker on the varsity football team, but Marist did not have a varsity football team until after he graduated. He also was a semi-professional baseball pitcher with the New York Monarchs, and was the goalie on his high school hockey team.
During his career, he has been a reporter/anchor in: Boston, Miami, Scranton, Dallas, Denver, Portland (Oregon), Hartford, New York City, and Los Angeles. He has also covered wars in the Falkland Islands, El Salvador, Northern Ireland, and Israel.
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Politically, he has always claimed he is a registered independent on The O'Reilly Factor (1996). But, it was later revealed that O'Reilly was actually a registered Republican in Nassau County in 1994. O'Reilly re-registered as an independent soon after.
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The film rights to his novel, Those Who Trespass, were bought by actor/director, Mel Gibson.
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Earned his M.A. in Public Administration from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1995.
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O'Reilly received his M.A. in Broadcast Journalism from Boston University in 1975.
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Majored in History at Marist College (Poughkeepsie, New York), earning his B.A. in 1971. He was given an honorary Doctorate of Letters from the school in 2000.
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As of 2001, has said he receives about 30,000 e-mails a day for his show The O'Reilly Factor (1996).
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Killing Patton
TV Movie based on the book by announced
Killing Reagan
2016
TV Movie
Killing Jesus
2015
TV Movie based on the book by
Killing Kennedy
2013
TV Movie based on the book by
Killing Lincoln
2013
TV Movie based on the book by
Bold and Fresh Tour
2010
TV Movie written by
The O'Reilly Factor
1999-2008
TV Series 171 episodes
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Killing Patton
TV Movie executive producer announced
Legends & Lies
2015-2016
TV Series executive producer - 20 episodes
Killing Reagan
2016
TV Movie executive producer
Killing Jesus
2015
TV Movie executive producer
Killing Kennedy
2013
TV Movie executive producer
Killing Lincoln
2013
TV Movie executive producer
Killing Kennedy
2013
Documentary producer
The Rumble in the Air-Conditioned Auditorium: O'Reilly vs. Stewart 2012
2012
Video executive producer
The O'Reilly Factor
2002-2008
TV Series executive producer - 140 episodes
Off the Wall: A Creative Journey
1997
TV Movie documentary producer
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
2011
Bill O'Reilly
Iron Man 2
2010
Bill O'Reilly
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Salmagundi
2009
Documentary short special thanks
SuperNews!
2007
TV Series special thanks - 1 episode
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Extra
2015-2017
TV Series
Himself
The O'Reilly Factor
1996-2017
TV Series
Himself - Host / Himself / Himself - Guest Host
Legends & Lies
2015-2017
TV Series
Himself - Host
CBS This Morning
2013-2016
TV Series
Himself / Himself - Author / Himself - Author, Killing Kennedy / ...
Fox and Friends
2008-2016
TV Series
Himself / Himself - Host, The O'Reilly Factor
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2016
TV Series
Himself / Himself - Guest
Outnumbered
2016
TV Series
Himself - Author, Killing of the Rising Sun / Himself - Guest Co-Host
Fox News Sunday
2016
TV Series
Himself - Author, Killing the Rising Sun
The Five
2012-2016
TV Series
Himself / Himself - Host, The O'Reilly Factor
Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2016
TV Series
Himself - Author, Kill the Rising Sun
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2014-2016
TV Series
Himself / Himself - Author, Killing of the Rising Sun / Himself - Host, The O'Reilly Factor
Live with Kelly and Michael
2004-2016
TV Series
Himself / Himself - Guest
Today
2004-2016
TV Series
Himself / Himself - Author / Himself - Guest
15 Septembers Later
2016
Documentary voice
The View
2006-2016
TV Series
Himself
Entertainment Tonight
2010-2016
TV Series
Himself
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014-2016
TV Series
Himself
CBS News Sunday Morning
2016
TV Series documentary
Himself
Good Morning America
2005-2016
TV Series
Himself / Himself - Guest
Stossel
2010-2016
TV Series
Himself / Himself - Host, The O'Reilly Factor
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2016
TV Series documentary
Himself
Rachael Ray
2009-2015
TV Series
Himself / Himself - Host, The O'Reilly Factor
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014-2015
TV Series
Himself
This Week
2012-2015
TV Series
Himself - Author, Killing Reagan / Himself
The Daily Show
2001-2015
TV Series
Himself
The Greg Gutfeld Show
2015
TV Series
Himself - Host, The O'Reilly Factor
Live from New York!
2015
Documentary
Himself - Featuring
Late Show with David Letterman
2001-2015
TV Series
Himself
The Kelly File
2015
TV Series
Himself - Host, The O'Reilly Factor
Media Buzz
2013-2015
TV Series
Himself - Host, The O'Reilly Factor / Himself
The Insider
2014
TV Series
Himself - The O'Reilly Factor
P.O.V.
2014
TV Series documentary
Himself
Cashin' In
2014
TV Series
Himself
The Kennedy Center Honors
2013
TV Special
Himself - Presenter
Fox News
2013
TV Series
Himself
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
2001-2013
TV Series
Himself / Himself - Storage Room Visitor
Inside Edition
1989-2013
TV Series documentary
Himself
The Real Story with Gretchen Carlson
2013
TV Series
Himself
On the Record w/ Brit Hume
2008-2013
TV Series
Himself
60 Minutes
2004-2013
TV Series documentary
Himself - Fox News Host (segment "Killing Jesus") / Himself - Host, The O'Reilly Factor (segment "O'Reilly")
Killing Lincoln: An Interview with Author Bill O'Reilly
2013
Video documentary short
Himself
America's Book of Secrets
2013
TV Series documentary
Himself
America Live
2012
TV Series
Himself
Katie
2012
TV Series
Himself
Night of Too Many Stars: America Comes Together for Autism Programs
2012
TV Movie
Himself
The Rumble in the Air-Conditioned Auditorium: O'Reilly vs. Stewart 2012
2012
Video
Himself
Last Ounce of Courage
2012
Himself (uncredited)
Saturday Night Live
2012
TV Series
Himself
Rizzoli & Isles
2011
TV Series
Himself
Red Eye w/Tom Shillue
2011
TV Series
Himself
Justice w/Judge Jeanine
2011
TV Series
Himself
Real Time with Bill Maher
2005-2010
TV Series
Himself
Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano
2010
TV Series
Himself
Bold and Fresh Tour
2010
TV Movie
Himself
Salmagundi
2009
Documentary short
Himself
2009 CMT Music Awards
2009
TV Special
Himself
Glenn Beck
2009
TV Series
Himself
Books Equal Gifts Commercial
2008
Short
An American Carol
2008
Himself
Fox Report
2008
TV Series
Himself
The Live Desk
2008
TV Series
Himself
Studio B
2008
TV Series
Himself
Just In with Laura Ingraham
2008
TV Series
Himself
The Colbert Report
2007
TV Series
Himself
Forbes Celebrity 100: Who Made Bank?
2006
TV Movie
Himself
Keeping Up with the Steins
2006
Himself (uncredited)
Al Franken: God Spoke
2006
Documentary
Himself
Howard Stern on Demand
2006
TV Series
Himself
Geraldo at Large
2005
TV Series documentary
Himself
Tsunami Aid: A Concert of Hope
2005
TV Special
Himself
The First Amendment Project: Fox vs. Franken
2004
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Charlie Rose
2000-2004
TV Series
Himself
WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception
2004
Documentary
Himself
Judging Amy
2004
TV Series
Himself
MADtv
2004
TV Series
Himself
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
2003
TV Series
Himself
Howard Stern
2003
TV Series
Himself
Book TV
2003
TV Series
Himself
JAG
2003
TV Series
Himself
Biography
2002
TV Series documentary
Himself
The Pulse
2002
TV Series
Himself
Last Call with Carson Daly
2002
TV Series
Himself - Guest
First Monday
2002
TV Series
Himself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
The O'Reilly Factor
2007-2016
TV Series
Himself / Himself - Host
Before the Flood
2016
Documentary
Himself
Media Buzz
2014-2016
TV Series
Himself - Host, The O'Reilly Factor / Himself
Entertainment Tonight
2015-2016
TV Series
Himself / Himself - Host, The O'Reilly Factor
The Drunken Peasants
2014-2016
TV Series
Himself
Extra
2015-2016
TV Series
Himself
The Eighties
2016
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself - ABC News
CBS News Sunday Morning
2016
TV Series documentary
Himself - Host, The O'Reilly Factor
Live with Kelly and Michael
2016
TV Series
Himself
Inside Edition
2014-2015
TV Series documentary
Himself - Host, The O'Reilly Factor / Himself
The Greg Gutfeld Show
2015
TV Series
Himself - Host, The O'Reilly Factor
The Insider
2014-2015
TV Series
Himself - Host, The O'Reilly Factor / Himself
Stossel
2015
TV Series
Himself - Host, The O'Reilly Factor
The Kelly File
2014
TV Series
Himself - Host, The O'Reilly Factor
The Colbert Report
2007-2014
TV Series
Himself
Facebook Debates, Retweets, and My Opinion: Does the Bible Have a Place in the Marketplace of Ideas?
2013
TV Movie
Himself
Me Gusta: Með Gústa
2013
TV Series
Himself
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
2013
Documentary
Himself
After Tiller
2013
Documentary
Himself
The Great Delusion: America Under Judgement?
2013
Video
Himself
Moyers & Company
2012
TV Series
Himself
The Newsroom
2012
TV Series
Himself - On TV Monitor
Jeff Dunham: Birth of a Dummy
2011
TV Special
Himself
Sarah Palin: You Betcha!
2011
Documentary
Himself
Zapp
2011
TV Series
Himself
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
2011
TV Series
Himself
Conan
2011
TV Series
Himself
Miss Representation
2011
Documentary
Himself
The War You Don't See
2010
Documentary
Himself
Insiders
2010
TV Series
Himself
The Assassination of Dr. Tiller
2010
Documentary
Himself - Host, The O'Reilly Factor
Selling God
2009
Documentary
Himself
NOW on PBS
2009
TV Series documentary
Himself - Host, The O'Reilly Factor
A Question of Eligibility
2009
Video documentary
Himself
Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech
2009
Documentary
Himself
Blood and Oil
2008
Video documentary
Himself
Killer at Large
2008
Documentary
Himself
War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death
2007
Documentary
Himself
Larry Flynt: The Right to Be Left Alone
2007
Documentary
Himself
Manufacturing Dissent
2007
Documentary
Himself
60 Minutes
2004-2007
TV Series documentary
Himself - Host, The O'Reilly Factor (segment "O'Reilly") / Himself - Host, The O'Reilly Factor (segment "Andy Rooney")
Shut Up & Sing
2006
Documentary
Himself
TV Junkie
2006
Documentary
Himself
Why We Fight
2005
Documentary
Himself
Now
2004
TV Series documentary
Last Laugh '04
2004
TV Movie
Himself
Dateline NBC
2004
TV Series documentary
Himself
Ellen et le terrorisme
2004
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
2004
Documentary
Himself
Feeding the Beast: The 24-Hour News Revolution
2004
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
2015
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Television Movie
Killing Jesus (2015)
2014
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Television Movie
Killing Kennedy (2013)
Known for movies
The O'Reilly Factor (1996-2017) as Writer
The Rumble in the Air-Conditioned Auditorium: O'Reilly vs. Stewart 2012 (2012) as Producer
Killing Lincoln: An Interview with Author Bill O'Reilly (2013) as Himself
$100 Million
