Known For
Acting
Born
Nov 20, 1908
Died
Mar 30, 2004
Place of Birth
Salford, Lancashire, England, UK
Credits
15 titles
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
Filmography
The Real Charlie Chaplin
Self (archive footage)
The Unseen Alistair Cooke
Self/Archival Footage
FDR
Self — Journalist
The Congress
Self - Journalist
Bacall on Bogart
Self
Unknown Chaplin
Self
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
Opening Sequence Narrator (uncredited)
Country Matters
Self – Narrator
ABC Stage 67
Self - Host
World in Action
Blitz on Britain
Narrator
The Three Faces of Eve
Himself (prologue narrator)
King Lear
Self – Host
Omnibus
Self - Host
All at Sea
Self