Person
Alistair Cooke
Acting · 1908–2004 · Salford, Lancashire, England, UK
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
World in Action
1963
Omnibus
Self - Host
ABC Stage 67
Self - Host
Country Matters
Self – Narrator
Unknown Chaplin
Self
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
Opening Sequence Narrator (uncredited)
The Three Faces of Eve
Himself (prologue narrator)
The Real Charlie Chaplin
Self (archive footage)
FDR
Self — Journalist
The Unseen Alistair Cooke
Self/Archival Footage
Filmography
- 2021The Real Charlie ChaplinSelf (archive footage)
- 2008The Unseen Alistair CookeSelf/Archival Footage
- 1994FDRSelf — Journalist
- 1989The CongressSelf - Journalist
- 1988Bacall on BogartSelf
- 1983Unknown ChaplinSelf
- 1973Hitler: The Last Ten DaysOpening Sequence Narrator (uncredited)
- 1972Country MattersSelf – Narrator
- 1966ABC Stage 67Self - Host
- 1963World in Action
- 1960Blitz on BritainNarrator
- 1957The Three Faces of EveHimself (prologue narrator)
- 1953King LearSelf – Host
- 1952OmnibusSelf - Host
- 1933All at SeaSelf
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