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David Frost
Sir David Paradine Frost was an English television host, journalist, comedian, and writer. He rose to prominence during the satire boom in the United Kingdom when he was chosen to host the satirical television programme That Was the Week That Was in 1962. His success on this show led to work as a host on American television.
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culture · English TV host and journalist (1939–2013) · journalist · writer · screenwriter · television presenter · comedian · broadcaster · television producer · presenter · satirist · also David Frost, Sir David Paradine Frost, Sir David Frost, David Paradine Frost, Frost
Born 7 April 1939 · Died 31 August 2013 · Q380865
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Miles’s death will always be incomprehensible to us, but the circumstances surrounding it have made losing him even more difficult to bear. “However, we are determined to look forward and plan to use his passing to create a positive legacy by improving diagnosis for HCM. If the Miles Frost Fund helps to prevent just one similar death occurring, then Miles will not have died in vain.
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2026· 2 entries
“Miles’s death will always be incomprehensible to us, but the circumstances surrounding it have made losing him even more difficult to bear. “However, we are determined to look forward and plan to use his passing to create a positive legacy by improving diagnosis for HCM. If the Miles Frost Fund helps to prevent just one similar death occurring, then Miles will not have died in vain.”
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2025· 5 entries
CNN: How David Frost got the world’s biggest names to open up
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Deadline.com: Nixon, Lennon, Fonda, Ali: How David Frost Booked, Charmed, Probed World’s Biggest Newsmakers & Stars – Doc Talk Podcast
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TV Guide: David Frost Vs
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MediaPost: David Frost And His Era Come Vividly To Life On MSNBC
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Moviefone: David Frost Vs - Season 1 (2025)
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2013· 3 entries
Died 2013-08-31.
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From Alec Douglas-Home to David Cameron, and all seven U
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“Having one child makes you a parent; having two makes you a referee.”
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2012· 1 entry
Released album “David Frost’s Hollywood Greats: Michael Caine”.
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded International Emmy Founders Award (2009).
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2007· 1 entry
Frost hosted a discussion with Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi as part of the Monitor Group's involvement in the country
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2006· 1 entry
A figure he considered a significant overestimate in 2011
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2005· 2 entries
Awarded BAFTA Fellowship (2005).
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And the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Emmy Awards in 2009
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1995· 1 entry
Alan Bennett recalled that rescuing Frost was the one regret Cook frequently expressed
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Sussex (1994).
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded Knight Bachelor (1993).
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1985· 1 entry
Frost produced and hosted a television special in the same format, That Was the Year That Was, on NBC
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1977· 2 entries
Which were adapted into a stage play and a film
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The Nixon interviews, which were five 90-minute interviews with former U
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1976· 1 entry
Frost was the executive producer of the British musical film The Slipper and the Rose, retelling the story of Cinderella
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1974· 3 entries
Expressed contrition saying, "I let the American people down and I have to carry that burden with me for the rest of my life"
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At his training camp in Deer Lake, Pennsylvania before "The Rumble in the Jungle" with George Foreman
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Was briefly engaged to American model Karen Graham; between 1972 and 1977 he had a relationship with British socialite Caroline Cushing; in 1981, he married Lynne Frederick, widow of Peter Sellers, but they divorced t
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1970· 2 entries
Awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire (1970).
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Released album “The Flip Wilson Show”.
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1968· 1 entry
Signed a contract worth £125,000 to appear on American television in his own show on three evenings each week, the largest such arrangement for a British television personality at the time
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1966· 1 entry
Part-financed The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer (1970), in which the lead character was based partly on Frost, and gained an executive producer credit
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1963· 2 entries
The BBC attempted to limit the team by scheduling repeats of The Third Man television series after the programme, thus preventing overruns
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Released album “That Was the Week That Was: The British Broadcasting Corporation's Tribute to John Fitzgerald Kennedy”.
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1956· 1 entry
“There was enormous luck in being young in that period, 1956-63,”
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1939· 1 entry
Born 1939-04-07.
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