Leslie Groves
Acting
August 17, 1896 — July 13, 1970Albany, New York, USA
Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves Jr. was a United States Army Corps of Engineers officer who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and directed the Manhattan Project, a top secret research project that developed the atomic bomb during World War II.
Known for
2023To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb
Self - Director, Manhattan Project (voice) (archive sound)
2022A Compassionate Spy
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2015Cold War Secrets: Stealing the Atomic Bomb
Self - Director of the Manhattan Project (archive footage)
1989Death in Focus
Lieutenant General/ Engineer
1981The Day After Trinity
Self (archive footage)
1965The Decision to Drop the Bomb
Self