Alistair Cooke
Alistair Cooke, KBE (20 November 1908 – 30 March 2004) was a British-American writer whose work as a journalist, television personality and radio broadcaster was done primarily in the United States. Outside his journalistic output, which included Letter from America and America: A Personal History of the United States, he was well known in the United States as the host of PBS Masterpiece Theatre from 1971 to 1992. After holding the job for 22 years, and having worked in television for 42 years, Cooke retired in 1992, although he continued to present Letter from America until shortly before his death. He is the father of author and folk singer John Byrne Cooke. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alistair Cooke, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Credits
- 2021 · The Real Charlie Chaplin as Self (archive footage)
- 2008 · The Unseen Alistair Cooke as Self/Archival Footage
- 1994 · FDR as Self — Journalist
- 1989 · The Congress as Self - Journalist
- 1988 · Bacall on Bogart as Self
- 1983 · Unknown Chaplin as Self
- 1973 · Hitler: The Last Ten Days as Opening Sequence Narrator (uncredited)
- 1972 · Country Matters as Self – Narrator
- 1966 · ABC Stage 67 as Self - Host
- 1963 · World in Action as
- 1960 · Blitz on Britain as Narrator
- 1957 · The Three Faces of Eve as Himself (prologue narrator)
- 1953 · King Lear as Self – Host
- 1952 · Omnibus as Self - Host
- 1933 · All at Sea as Self