Dan Gifford has won the prestigious top Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Reporting, the International Documentary Association's top award, and has been nominated for an Oscar, among other honors. He also acts and writes.
In a prior career, he was an investigative reporter who exposed organized crime, official corruption, and financial fraud for such news organizations as “The MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour,” ABC News, and CNN. “MacNeil/Lehrer” credited him with being the first to reveal the looting and lying by criminals and government officials that destroyed so many banks and savings and loans during the 80s. The Houston Chronicle had this to say:
Gifford is one of the few reporters who understands how banks get plundered, how takeover predators destroy companies and how Wall Street crooks manipulate the markets. He can draw blood with a financial statement and the powers that be don't like it.
Dan began his broadcast career while a high school student in 1965 Baltimore as a newspaper newsman, radio reporter, and disc jockey.
As an actor, Dan has appeared in well-known feature films like “Contact,” “Mad City,” and “Malcolm X.” His TV credits include Tom Clancey’s “Net Force,” “The X Files,” “The Practice,” and “Mr. Show.”
In his producer capacity, he has helmed “Waco: The Rules of Engagement” (government mass murder), “The Hungry Bachelors Club” starring “CSI's” Jorja Fox (miscegenation), and “The Jaundiced Eye” (homophobic false child abuse hysteria) to critical acclaim.
New York Press on “Waco: The Rules of Engagement”: “It is easily the most important American documentary of the past decade.”
Variety on “The Jaundiced Eye”: “Gifford should be congratulated for taking on unpopular subjects for which the mainstream press has no stomach or honesty.”
A native of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Dan attended school at Lynchburg’s Virginia Episcopal School, Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, The Peabody Conservatory of Music and The Johns Hopkins University.
Dan served on the board of directors of the ACLU of Southern California for five years.
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