Acting · Salford, Lancashire, England, UK · Born November 20, 1908
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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1994
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1989
as Self - Journalist
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1988
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1983
as Self
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1973
as Opening Sequence Narrator (uncredited)
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TVABC Stage 67
1966
as Self - Host
TVWorld in Action
1963
MovieBlitz on Britain
1960
as Narrator
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1957
as Himself (prologue narrator)
MovieKing Lear
1953
as Self – Host
TVOmnibus
1952
as Self - Host
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1933
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