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John Sidney McCain III was an American politician and military officer, who served as a United States senator for Arizona from January 1987 until his death in 2018. He previously served two terms in the United States House of Representatives and was the Republican nominee for president of the United States in the 2008 election, which he lost to Barack Obama.
Birth Name
John Sidney McCain III
Born
Saturday, 29 August 1936
Died
Saturday, 25 August 2018
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Russian Media Monitor | Self - Former U.S. Senator | 2023 |
| The 2010s | Self - (R) Arizona | 2023 |
| I Am Vanessa Guillen | Self - Senator, Arizona (R) | 2022 |
| The Lincoln Project | Self | 2022 |
| Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies and the Internet | Self - 2008 Republican Presidential Nominee | 2022 |
| The Power of Big Oil | Self - Fmr. U.S. Senator | 2022 |
| Two Men at War | Self - U.S. Senator | 2022 |
| Behind the Shield: The Power & Politics of the NFL | Self | 2022 |
| The Problem with Jon Stewart | Self | 2021 |
| Race Against Time: The CIA and 9/11 | Self | 2021 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Russian Media Monitor | Self - Former U.S. Senator | 2023 |
| The 2010s | Self - (R) Arizona | 2023 |
| I Am Vanessa Guillen | Self - Senator, Arizona (R) | 2022 |
| The Lincoln Project | Self | 2022 |
| Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies and the Internet | Self - 2008 Republican Presidential Nominee | 2022 |
| The Power of Big Oil | Self - Fmr. U.S. Senator | 2022 |
| Two Men at War | Self - U.S. Senator | 2022 |
| Behind the Shield: The Power & Politics of the NFL | Self | 2022 |
| The Problem with Jon Stewart | Self | 2021 |
| Race Against Time: The CIA and 9/11 | Self | 2021 |
| Hemingway | Self - U.S. Senator | 2021 |
| First Ladies | Self | 2020 |
| American Deep State | Self - Arizona Senator / Self (archive footage) | 2020 |
| Hillary | Self - Senator, Arizona (R) | 2020 |
| The Report | Self | 2019 |
| APOCALYPSE War of Worlds 1945-1991 | Self | 2019 |
| Mike Wallace Is Here | Self (archive footage) / Self | 2019 |
| Revealing Ukraine | Self - American Politician | 2019 |
| The Weekly | Self - Republican, Arizona | 2019 |
| Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation | Self | 2019 |
| The River and the Wall | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2019 |
| Panic: The Untold Story of the 2008 Financial Crisis | Self (archive footage) / Self - US Senator from Arizona (R) | 2018 |
| Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook | Self | 2018 |
| The 2000s | Himself - Republican Presidential Candidate (archive footage) (as Sen. John McCain) / Himself (archive footage) (as Sen. John McCain) | 2018 |
| John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls | Self - Senator / Self (archive footage) | 2018 |
| To the Moon and Back | Self | 2018 |
| Active Measures | Self - (R-AZ) Senate Armed Services Committee / Self | 2018 |
| ACORN and the Firestorm | Self - Republican presidential candidate | 2018 |
| Poetry in America with Elisa New | Self | 2018 |
| America's Greatest Threat: Vladimir Putin | Self / Himself | 2018 |
| The Vietnam War | Self - Lieutenant-Commander (Pilot) / Self | 2017 |
| Saving Capitalism | Self - Senator, Arizona | 2017 |
| The Words That Built America | Reader - The Constitution | 2017 |
| The Putin Interviews | Self | 2017 |
| Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS | Self | 2017 |
| I am Jane Doe | Self | 2017 |
| Through the Fire: The Legacy of Barack Obama | (archive footage) | 2017 |
| Who Is Vermin Supreme? An Outsider Odyssey | Self | 2017 |
| The First 100 Days | Self - Chairman, Senate Armed Services Committee | 2017 |
| For the Record | Self | 2017 |
| America Decides | Self | 2016 |
| Before the Flood | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2016 |
| 16 for '16: The Contenders | Self | 2016 |
| All or Nothing: A Season with the Arizona Cardinals | Self - U.S. Senator | 2016 |
| The American West | Self - U.S. Senator, Arizona / Self | 2016 |
| Sunday Today with Willie Geist | Self | 2016 |
| The Eighties | Self | 2016 |
| Making a Killing: Guns, Greed, and the NRA | Self | 2016 |
| Chelsea | Himself (archive footage) | 2016 |
| The Circus: Inside the Greatest Political Show on Earth | Self | 2016 |
| Miroporyadok | Self | 2015 |
| The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self | 2015 |
| The Phoenix Incident | Self | 2015 |
| The Seventies | Self - Prisoner of War | 2015 |
| Marching to Zion | Self | 2015 |
| The World Wars | Self | 2014 |
| Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo | Self / Self - Senate Armed Services Committee / Self - Chairman, Senate Armed Services Committee | 2014 |
| Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self | 2014 |
| The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Self / Self - James Comey Hearing | 2014 |
| Mitt | Self - Presidential Candidate | 2014 |
| The Drunken Peasants | Self | 2014 |
| September 11: The New Pearl Harbor | Self | 2013 |
| TakePart Live | Self - Guest | 2013 |
| New Day | Self | 2013 |
| Retro Report | Self - Senator | 2013 |
| Deadliest Catch: The Bait | Self | 2013 |
| The Lead with Jake Tapper | Self | 2013 |
| Citizen Koch | Self - Senator, Arizona / Self (archive footage) | 2013 |
| Dirty Wars | Self | 2013 |
| Arizona Centennial Conversations with Sandra Day O'Connor | Self | 2012 |
| Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden | Self | 2012 |
| The House I Live In | Self | 2012 |
| Killing Them Softly | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2012 |
| The Newsroom | Self - On TV Monitor | 2012 |
| Top Priority: The Terror Within | Self - AZ Senator / Self - AZ Senator (archive footage) | 2012 |
| Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | Self - Interviewee | 2012 |
| The Invisible War | Self - (R) Arizona | 2012 |
| America's Book of Secrets | Self | 2012 |
| CBS This Morning | Self | 2012 |
| Sarah Palin: You Betcha! | Self | 2011 |
| A Football Life | Self | 2011 |
| The Strange History of Don't Ask, Don't Tell | Self | 2011 |
| Whistleblowers: The Untold Stories | Self - Arizona US Senator | 2011 |
| The Undefeated | Himself - Presidential Candidate Republican Party (archive footage) / Self - Presidential Candidate Republican Party | 2011 |
| Too Big to Fail | Self | 2011 |
| Fear of a Black Republican | Self - Interviewee | 2011 |
| Reagan | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2011 |
| Ethos | Self - U.S. Senator | 2011 |
| How Obama Won the West | Self | 2010 |
| The Tillman Story | Self | 2010 |
| Casino Jack and the United States of Money | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2010 |
| Saturday Night Live in the 2000s: Time and Again | Self | 2010 |
| Nuclear Tipping Point | Self | 2010 |
| I Know What I Saw | Self | 2009 |
| The Jay Leno Show | Self | 2009 |
| 30 for 30 | Self | 2009 |
| Capitalism: A Love Story | Self | 2009 |
| By the People: The Election of Barack Obama | Self | 2009 |
| HouseQuake | Self | 2009 |
| The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien | Self - Guest | 2009 |
| Parks and Recreation | John McCain | 2009 |
| New World Order | Self | 2009 |
| Late Night with Jimmy Fallon | Himself - Guest / Himself (as Sen. John McCain) | 2009 |
| Right America: Feeling Wronged - Some Voices from the Campaign Trail | Self | 2009 |
| Obama: All Access | Self | 2009 |
| Barack Obama: The Power of Hope | Self | 2009 |
| State of the Union with Jake Tapper | Self | 2009 |
| Vote Jesus: The Chronicles of Ken Stevenson | Self | 2009 |
| Outrage | Self | 2009 |
| Saturday Night Live Presidential Bash '08 | Self | 2008 |
| W. | Self | 2008 |
| The American Future: A History | Self | 2008 |
| Secrets of Body Language | Self | 2008 |
| Religulous | Self | 2008 |
| 2008 Presidential Debates | Self | 2008 |
| Fabled Enemies | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2008 |
| Markus Lanz | Himself (archive footage) | 2008 |
| America Betrayed | Self | 2008 |
| IFC News: 2008 Uncut | Self | 2007 |
| Darfur Now | Self | 2007 |
| The Mars Underground | Self | 2007 |
| Taxi to the Dark Side | Self | 2007 |
| Morning Joe | Self | 2007 |
| Run Granny Run | Self | 2007 |
| Night Skies | Self | 2007 |
| Ghosts of Abu Ghraib | Self | 2007 |
| Shut Up & Sing | Self | 2006 |
| Rachael Ray | Self | 2006 |
| Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater | Self | 2006 |
| The Colbert Report | Self / Self - Guest | 2005 |
| Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List | Self | 2005 |
| Wedding Crashers | John McCain | 2005 |
| Missing, Presumed Dead: The Search for America's POWs | Self | 2005 |
| Why We Fight | Self | 2005 |
| Celsius 41.11: The Temperature at Which the Brain... Begins to Die | Self | 2004 |
| Nine Innings from Ground Zero | Self | 2004 |
| The Tony Danza Show | Self | 2004 |
| Saturday Night Live: The Best of Tracy Morgan | John Ashcroft | 2004 |
| Bush's Brain | Self | 2004 |
| Dorfers Donnerstalk | Self | 2004 |
| Anderson Cooper 360° | Self - Guest | 2003 |
| Last Comic Standing | Self | 2003 |
| Texas Monthly Talks | Self - Interviewee | 2003 |
| Listen Up! Charles Barkley with Ernie Johnson | Self | 2002 |
| Who Wants to Be a Millionaire | Self - Celebrity Question Presenter | 2002 |
| Journeys with George | Self | 2002 |
| Horns and Halos | Self | 2002 |
| Lewis Black: Taxed Beyond Belief | Himself / Self | 2002 |
| 24 | CTU Staffer | 2001 |
| The Amazing Race | Self | 2001 |
| Beyond the Glory | Self | 2001 |
| Return with Honor | Himself | 1999 |
| WWE Smackdown! | Self | 1999 |
| Secrets of War | Self - Former U.S. Navy Pilot / Nimself - Vietnam POW | 1998 |
| The View | Himself (as Sen. John McCain) | 1997 |
| The Daily Show | Self | 1996 |
| Baseball | Self | 1994 |
| Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self - Guest / Himself | 1993 |
| Late Show with David Letterman | Himself - Guest / Self / Himself / Himself - Pre-taped segment / 'Late Show Candidate Spotlight' / Himself - 'Late Show Candidate Spotlight' | 1993 |
| WWE Raw | Self | 1993 |
| Dateline NBC | Self | 1992 |
| Have I Got News for You | Self | 1990 |
| CNN Newsroom | Self | 1989 |
| American Experience | Self | 1988 |
| American Masters | Self | 1986 |
| Frontline | Himself (archive footage) / Himself, Presidential Candidate (archive footage) (as Sen. John McCain) / Himself / Himself - Senator (archive footage) / Himself - Republican Presidential Candidate (archive footage) / Himself - Presidential Nominee (archive footage) / Self - United States Senator / Self - Senator / Self - Presidential Nominee | 1983 |
| This Week | Self | 1981 |
| CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley | Self (archive footage) | 1979 |
| 20/20 | Self | 1978 |
| Saturday Night Live | Self / John Ashcroft / Self - Host | 1975 |
| Nova | Self | 1974 |
| NFL Monday Night Football | Self | 1970 |
| 60 Minutes | Himself - Senator, Arizona (segment "The Maverick from Arizona") / Himself - Senator, Arizona (segment "The Fighter") / Himself - Senator, Arizona (segment "The Fighter") (archive footage) / Himself - Senator, Arizona (segment "The Candidates: McCain") / Himself - Senator, Arizona (segment "McCain for President") / Himself - Senator, Arizona (segment "John McCain") / Himself - Senator, Arizona (segment "Iraqi National Congress") (archive footage) / Himself - Senator, Arizona (segment "In Harm's Way") (as Sen. John McCain) / Himself - Senator, Arizona (segment "In Harm's Way") (archive footage) / Himself - Senator, Arizona (segment "Enemy of the State") (archive footage) / Himself - Senator, Arizona (segment "Dr. Chalabi Goes to Iraq") (archive footage) / Himself - Senator, Arizona (segment "Bud Shuster") / Himself - Senator, Arizona (segment "Broken Promises") | 1968 |
| Horizon | Self | 1964 |
| Jeopardy! | Himself (archive footage) (as McCain) | 1964 |
| Four Corners | Self - US Senator | 1961 |
| Face the Nation | Self / Self - Arizona Senator | 1954 |
| Meet the Press | Self (archive footage) | 1947 |
