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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alistair Cooke, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies & TV Shows

1. The Three Faces of Eve (1957) — Himself (prologue narrator)
2. Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973) — Opening Sequence Narrator (uncredited)
3. The Real Charlie Chaplin (2021) — Self (archive footage)
4. Unknown Chaplin (1983) — Self
5. Bacall on Bogart (1988) — Self
6. FDR (1994) — Self — Journalist
7. ABC Stage 67 (1966) — Self - Host
8. All at Sea (1933) — Self
9. The Congress (1989) — Self - Journalist
10. Blitz on Britain (1960) — Narrator
11. Country Matters (1972) — Self – Narrator
12. King Lear (1953) — Self – Host
13. Omnibus (1952) — Self - Host
14. World in Action (1963)
15. The Unseen Alistair Cooke (2008) — Self/Archival Footage

Directed

1. All at Sea (1933) — Director