in 2000 After his wife was hired by the
BBC (in New York), Rose handled some assignments for the BBC on a
freelance basis. In 1972, while working at New York bank
Bankers Trust, he landed a job as a weekend reporter for
WPIX-TV. Rose's "break" came in 1974, after
Bill Moyers hired him as managing editor for the
PBS series ''Bill Moyers' International Report.
In 1975, Moyers appointed him as executive producer of Bill Moyers Journal.'' Rose soon began appearing on camera. "A Conversation with
Jimmy Carter", which aired on Moyers's TV series
U.S.A.: People and Politics, won a 1976
Peabody Award. He then worked at several networks honing his interview skills, until NBC affiliate
KXAS-TV in
Dallas–Fort Worth hired him as program manager and provided the late-night time slot that became
The Charlie Rose Show.
CBS News Rose worked for
CBS News from 1984 to 1990 as the
anchor of
CBS News Nightwatch, the network's first
late-night news broadcast, which often featured him doing interviews with notable people in a format similar to that of his later PBS show. The
Nightwatch broadcast of Rose's interview with
Charles Manson won a
News & Documentary Emmy Award in 1987. In 1990, Rose left CBS to serve as anchor of
Personalities, a
Fox TV-produced syndicated program, but six weeks into production and unhappy with the show's soundbite-driven populist
tabloid-journalism approach to stories, he left.
Charlie Rose '' at the 2009
Tribeca Film Festival On September 30, 1991,
Charlie Rose premiered on PBS station
Thirteen/WNET and was nationally fed on PBS beginning in January 1993. In 1994, Rose moved the show to a studio owned by Bloomberg LP, which allowed for high-definition video via satellite-remote interviews. On the show, he interviewed thinkers, writers, politicians, athletes, entertainers, businesspersons, leaders, scientists, and fellow newsmakers. The show was known for its distinguished stature and intellectual tone.
Barack Obama made 11 appearances on the show as a senator, presidential candidate, and as president. Other former presidents who appeared on the program include
Jimmy Carter,
George H. W. Bush,
Bill Clinton, and
George W. Bush.
Donald Trump appeared on the program as a citizen but not as president. Filmmakers who appeared on the show included
Martin Scorsese,
Werner Herzog,
Sydney Pollack,
Quentin Tarantino,
Brian de Palma,
Oliver Stone,
Roman Polanski,
Tim Burton,
Sidney Lumet,
Terry Gilliam,
David Lynch,
Guillermo del Toro,
Peter Jackson,
Wes Anderson,
Ron Howard,
George Lucas,
Peter Bogdanovich,
Mike Nichols,
Sofia Coppola,
Spike Lee, and
Noah Baumbach. Comedians who appeared on the show included
George Carlin,
Louis C.K.,
Jerry Seinfeld,
Chris Rock,
Joan Rivers,
Jon Stewart,
Aziz Ansari,
Bill Murray,
Steve Martin,
Robin Williams,
Bill Maher,
Ricky Gervais,
John Oliver, and
Key & Peele. Rose also hosted a variety of film critics including
Roger Ebert,
Janet Maslin,
Stanley Kauffmann,
Richard Corliss,
Richard Schickel,
David Denby,
Andrew Sarris, and
A. O. Scott. Guest hosts included A. O. Scott,
Judd Apatow,
Seth Meyers,
Anthony Mason,
Jon Meacham,
Katie Couric, and
Molly Haskell. The show ran a total of 26 years from 1991 to 2017.
60 Minutes Rose was a
correspondent for
60 Minutes II from its inception in January 1999 until its cancellation in September 2005, and was named a correspondent on
60 Minutes in 2008. When asked what makes a good interviewee Rose responded, "[it] is somebody who wants to engage and who views it as an opportunity to express their ideas, to have their ideas tested, to listen to the questions and to be as responsive to the questions as they can. Someone who is spontaneous, authentic, engaged, and passionate. That's the kind of person that'll give you a good interview." For
60 Minutes Rose has interviewed such people as Russian President
Vladimir Putin, Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad,
Apple Inc. business executive
Tim Cook, political strategist
Steve Bannon, comedian
Larry David, stage actor
Lin-Manuel Miranda, and actor
Sean Penn. He was a member of the board of directors of
Citadel Broadcasting Corporation from 2003 to 2009.
CBS This Morning On November 15, 2011, it was announced that Rose would return to CBS to help anchor
CBS This Morning, replacing
The Early Show, commencing January 9, 2012, along with co-anchors
Gayle King and
Erica Hill.
Bill Gates (1996);
Steve Jobs (1996);
Sean Penn (2008 & 2016); Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad (2013), for which he won a second Peabody Award; U.S. President
Barack Obama and his wife
Michelle (2012); U.S. business magnate
Warren Buffett;
David Rockefeller; MIT Linguistics professor
Noam Chomsky (2003); actor/producer
Leonardo DiCaprio (2004); comedians
Louis C.K. and
George Carlin; actor
Christoph Waltz; director
Quentin Tarantino; actor
Bradley Cooper;
Larry Ellison, the co-founder and then CEO of
Oracle Corporation; former Iranian empress
Farah Pahlavi;
Vladimir Putin (2015); and tennis champion
Maria Sharapova.
Charlie Rose Conversations On April 14, 2022, in his first public appearance since 2017, when multiple women accused him of sexual harassment, Rose released an interview with billionaire
Warren Buffett. The interview was uploaded to his own personal website and is listed as the first in a series called
Charlie Rose Conversations. Subsequent episodes have included interviews with
Thomas Friedman,
Ray Dalio,
Fatima Gailani,
Isabella Rossellini,
David Petraeus, and others.
Other television appearances Rose made a cameo appearance on the TV series
Breaking Bad in the penultimate episode, "
Granite State" (season 5, episode 15, first broadcast September 22, 2013). Rose is seen on TV interviewing the characters Gretchen and Elliott Schwartz, which is watched by the character
Walter White. ==Filmography==