Leslie Groves

🎂 17th August 1896 (129 yrs) 📍 Albany, New York, USA

Known For

Biography

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.

Movies Featuring Leslie Groves

To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb (2023)

as Self - Director, Manhattan Project (voice) (archive sound)

A Compassionate Spy (2022)

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Cold War Secrets: Stealing the Atomic Bomb (2015)

as Self - Director of the Manhattan Project (archive footage)

Death in Focus (1989)

as Lieutenant General/ Engineer

The Day After Trinity (1981)

as Self (archive footage)

The Decision to Drop the Bomb (1965)

as Self