Sir David Frost Died

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Sir David Frost, the veteran television host, author and producer, has died at the age of 74 following a heart attack.

 

The only person to have interviewed the last seven presidents of the US and the last six prime ministers of the UK, Frost had been with Al Jazeera English since its launch in 2006.

"Sir David died of a heart attack last night aboard the Queen Elizabeth which is a Cunard [cruise] liner where he was giving a speech. His family are devastated and ask for privacy at this difficult time," the family said in a statement read on BBC television on Sunday.

He has been awarded all the major television awards - the Emmy Award (for The David Frost Show - twice); the Royal Television Society Silver Medal and the Richard Dimbleby Award in the UK and, internationally, the Golden Rose of Montreux.

 

In 2005, he was awarded BAFTA’s highest honour, the BAFTA Fellowship. He was honoured by the Museum of the Moving Image in New York in 1998 and by the Museum of Broadcasting in New York in 1999.

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orn in 1939, Frost was part of the Cambridge Footlights while at university and first made his name with BBC television's satirical That was the Week that was (TW3) in the early 1960s.

He went on to present a string of topical review programmes including The Frost Report  where he first used the phrase "Hello, good evening and welcome".

Frost was later a co-founder and presenter of the UK breakfast television station, TV-am, in 1983 and presented 500 editions of the Sunday morning interview programme Breakfast with Frost  for the BBC.