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Alistair Cooke

Alistair Cooke

Birthday: 1908-11-20 | Place of Birth: Salford, Lancashire, England, UK

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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1989
The Congress

as    Self - Journalist

1988
Bacall on Bogart

as    Self

1983
Unknown Chaplin

as    Self

1957
The Three Faces of Eve

as    Himself (prologue narrator)

1952
Omnibus

as    Self - Host

1933
All at Sea

as    Self