Alistair Cooke
Born: 1908-11-20 in Salford, Lancashire, England, UK
Died: 2004-03-30
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
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
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