Alistair Cooke
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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Acting
Movie
The Three Faces of Eve
as Himself (prologue narrator)
1957
Movie
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
as Opening Sequence Narrator (uncredited)
1973
Movie
The Real Charlie Chaplin
as Self (archive footage)
2021
TV
Unknown Chaplin
as Self
1983
Movie
Bacall on Bogart
as Self
1988
Movie
FDR
as Self — Journalist
1994
TV
ABC Stage 67
as Self - Host
1966
Movie
All at Sea
as Self
1933
Movie
The Congress
as Self - Journalist
1989
Movie
Blitz on Britain
as Narrator
1960
TV
Country Matters
as Self – Narrator
1972
Movie
King Lear
as Self – Host
1953
TV
Omnibus
as Self - Host
1952
TV
World in Action
1963
Movie
The Unseen Alistair Cooke
as Self/Archival Footage
2008