John Bolton
Actor · Born November 20, 1948 (77) · Baltimore, Maryland, USA
John Robert Bolton II (born November 20, 1948) is an American attorney, diplomat, Republican consultant, and political commentator who served as the 25th United States ambassador to the United Nations from 2005 to 2006, and as the 26th United States national security advisor from 2018 to 2019. Bolton served as a United States assistant attorney general for President Ronald Reagan from 1985 to 1989. He served in the State Department as the assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs from 1989 to 1993, and the under secretary of state for arms control and international security affairs from 2001 to 2005. He was an advocate of the Iraq War as a Director of the Project for the New American Century, which favored going to war with Iraq. He was the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from August 2005 to December 2006, as a recess appointee by President George W. Bush. He stepped down at the end of his recess appointment in December 2006 because he was unlikely to win confirmation in the Senate, of which the Democratic Party had control at the time. Bolton later served as National Security Advisor to President Donald Trump from April 2018 to September 2019. He repeatedly called for the termination of the Iran nuclear deal, from which the U.S. withdrew in May 2018. He wrote a best-selling book about his tenure in the Trump administration, The Room Where It Happened, published in 2020. Bolton is widely considered a foreign policy hawk and advocates military action and regime change by the U.S. in Iran, Syria, Libya, Venezuela, Cuba, Yemen, and North Korea. A member of the Republican Party, his political views have been described as American nationalist, conservative, and neoconservative, although Bolton rejects the last term. He is a former senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and a Fox News Channel commentator. He was a foreign policy adviser to 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. In October 2025, Bolton was indicted on eight counts of unlawful transmission and ten counts of unlawful retention of national defense information between 2018 and 2025. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Bolton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Biography from TMDB.
- November 20, 1948 (77)
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Actor
- 2 on MovieCove · 7 credits in all
Known for
What are John Bolton's films like?
Across their 5 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Power and Society.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 1 · Wry 1 · Earnest 2
A split, not a type: Light 2 · Serious 0 · Dark 2
Grounded 4 · Stylized 0 · Heightened 0
Gentle 1 · Charged 2 · Intense 1
A split, not a type: Steady 2 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 1
A split, not a type: Straight-faced 2 · Some laughs 0 · Funny 2
Slow burn 3 · Even-paced 1 · Relentless 0
Casual 0 · Engaged 4 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 2 · Affecting 2 · Heavy 0
Resolved 2 · Open-ended 2 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
- Bittersweet1
- Ambiguous4
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch John Bolton's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 1 of their 2 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, on The Roku Channel (1).
Subscription and free streaming for John Bolton's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
7 credits, 2 with a MovieCove page; 34 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.
Revealing Ukraine (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)
Madam Secretary(2014)
Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Bush’s War Part II (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2008)
Bush’s War Part I (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2008)
HARDtalk (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1997)
Career shape
A full career of 6 titles from 1997 to 2019.
How do John Bolton's films land?
Their one MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 62nd percentile; across a limited sample of 4 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 85th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up1
- 50th to 74th1
Shape of the crowd
1 of their 2 titles is Divisive.
- Divisive1
- Crowd Pleaser1
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does John Bolton work with?
People who share at least 2 of John Bolton's MovieCove titles; Rudy Giuliani shares the most, 2.
- Rudy GiulianiShared titles: The Trump Show (2020), Who Is Vermin Supreme? An Outsider Odyssey (2014)See all 2 shared titles with Rudy Giuliani
