Oliver North

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1943-10-07 (81 years old)

Place of Birth San Antonio, Texas, USA

Also Known As Oliver Laurence North, Ollie North

Oliver North

Biography

Oliver Laurence North (born October 7, 1943) is an American political commentator, television host, military historian, author, and retired United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel. North was a National Security Council staff member during the Iran–Contra affair, a political scandal of the late 1980s. It involved the illegal sale of weapons to the Khomeini regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran to encourage the release of American hostages then held in Lebanon. North formulated the second part of the plan, which was to divert proceeds from the arms sales to support the Contra rebel groups in Nicaragua, sales which had been specifically prohibited under the Boland Amendment. North was granted limited immunity from prosecution in exchange for testifying before Congress about the scheme. He was initially convicted on three felony charges, but the convictions were vacated and reversed and all charges against him dismissed in 1991. North unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. Senate seat held by Chuck Robb from Virginia in 1994. In a three-way race, North narrowly lost to Robb by a margin of 2.73%. He then hosted a talk show on Radio America from 1995 to 2003 and one on Fox News from 2001 to 2016. He was also president of the National Rifle Association from 2018 to 2019. Description above from the Wikipedia article Oliver North, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Actor

2016
Fatal News

as Self (archive footage)

2012
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

as Self - US Military Officer (archive footage)

2002
Family Fundamentals

as Self (archive footage)

1996
1995
JAG

as Oliver North

1995
JAG

as Ollie

1993
1990
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1990
Wings

as Oliver North

Writer

2013
The Americans

as Story