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Alistair Cooke
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…
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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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2021
The Real Charlie Chaplin
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2008
The Unseen Alistair Cooke
Movie Self/Archival Footage
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1994
FDR
Movie Self — Journalist
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1989
The Congress
Movie Self - Journalist
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1988
Bacall on Bogart
Movie Self
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1983
Unknown Chaplin
TV show Self
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1973
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
Movie Opening Sequence Narrator (uncredited)
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1972
Country Matters
TV show Self – Narrator
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1966
ABC Stage 67
TV show Self - Host
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1963
World in Action
TV show
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1960
Blitz on Britain
Movie Narrator
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1957
The Three Faces of Eve
Movie Himself (prologue narrator)
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1953
King Lear
Movie Self – Host
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1952
Omnibus
TV show Self - Host
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1933
All at Sea
Movie Self
