Alistair Cooke
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 20, 1908, Salford, Lancashire, England, UK
- Died
- March 30, 2004
- Movies
- 10
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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Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2021 | The Real Charlie Chaplin | Self (archive footage) |
| 2008 | The Unseen Alistair Cooke | Self/Archival Footage |
| 1989 | The Congress | Self - Journalist |
| 1988 | Bacall on Bogart | Self |
| 1973 | Hitler: The Last Ten Days | Opening Sequence Narrator (uncredited) |
| 1960 | Blitz on Britain | Narrator |
| 1957 | The Three Faces of Eve | Himself (prologue narrator) |
| 1953 | King Lear | Self – Host |
| 1933 | All at Sea | Self |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 1933 | All at Sea | Director |
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