Alistair Cooke

Known for ActingBorn 1908-11-20Died 2004-03-30Salford, 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 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Unknown Chaplin

The Real Charlie Chaplin

King Lear

The Congress

FDR

The Three Faces of Eve

Blitz on Britain

World in Action

Omnibus

ABC Stage 67

Bacall on Bogart

Hitler: The Last Ten Days

Country Matters

All at Sea

The Unseen Alistair Cooke