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.
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Filmography
The Real Charlie Chaplin
2021
as Self (archive footage)
The Unseen Alistair Cooke
2008
as Self/Archival Footage
FDR
1994
as Self — Journalist
The Congress
1989
as Self - Journalist
Bacall on Bogart
1988
as Self
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
1973
as Opening Sequence Narrator (uncredited)
Blitz on Britain
1960
as Narrator
The Three Faces of Eve
1957
as Himself (prologue narrator)
King Lear
1953
as Self – Host
All at Sea
1933
as Self