Desc: J. Edgar Hoover: Directed by Robert L. Collins. With Treat Williams, Rip Torn, David Ogden Stiers, Andrew Duggan. He battled the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, encouraged McCarthy and single-handedly changed the course of history. Hired by F.D.R. to be the director of the FBI, Hoover erected the most sophisticated investigatory agency in the world.