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name: "Roger Ailes"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/roger-ailes"
fi1m_id: "roger-ailes"
imdb_id: "nm0014614"
tmdb_id: 1229169
wikidata_id: "Q983981"
roles: []
born: "15 May 1940"
died: "18 May 2017"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T18:59:02.452755+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Roger Ailes

## Identity

Roger Ailes

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/roger-ailes
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** roger-ailes
- **IMDb ID:** nm0014614
- **TMDB ID:** 1229169
- **Wikidata ID:** Q983981
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q983981, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0014614/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1229169

Producer. Born 15 May 1940 in Warren, Ohio, USA. Died 18 May 2017.

## Details

- **Born:** 15 May 1940, Warren, Ohio, USA
- **Died:** 18 May 2017
- **Also known as:** Roger Eugene Ailes
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q983981, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0014614/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1229169

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Fahrenheit 11/9*](https://film.one/film/fahrenheit-11-9.md) (60)

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## Biography

Roger Eugene Ailes (15 May 1940 – 18 May 2017) was an American television executive and producer. Born in Warren, Ohio, he began his career in the 1960s as a producer and executive producer on *The Mike Douglas Show*, for which he received an Emmy nomination.

Ailes served as a media consultant to Republican presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. He later became chairman and chief executive of Fox News, Fox Television Stations and 20th Television. He left Fox News in 2016 following allegations of sexual harassment by female employees.

Ailes appeared as himself in archive footage in the 2018 documentary *Fahrenheit 11/9*. He died in Palm Beach, Florida, from complications of a subdural hematoma, aggravated by haemophilia.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, metacritic.com, nytimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Fahrenheit 11/9* (2018), Fi1m 60, as Self (archive footage) — [page](https://film.one/film/fahrenheit-11-9.md)

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