Alistair Cooke

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.

Known For

The Three Faces of Eve

as Himself (prologue narrator)

Hitler: The Last Ten Days

as Opening Sequence Narrator (uncredited)

The Real Charlie Chaplin

as Self (archive footage)

Unknown Chaplin

as Self

Bacall on Bogart

as Self

FDR

as Self — Journalist

ABC Stage 67

as Self - Host

All at Sea

as Self

The Congress

as Self - Journalist

Blitz on Britain

as Narrator