Alistair Cooke Net Worth

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Alistair Cooke Net Worth is
$600,000

Alistair Cooke Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018

Alistair Cooke KBE (20 November 1908 – 30 March 2004) was a British journalist, television personality and broadcaster. Outside his journalistic output, which included Letter from America and Alistair Cooke's America, 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 was the father of author and folk singer John Byrne Cooke.

Date Of BirthNovember 20, 1908, Salford, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
DiedMarch 30, 2004, New York City, New York, United States
Place Of BirthSalford, Lancashire, England, UK
ProfessionActor, Writer
ChildrenJohn Byrne Cooke, Susan Byrne Cooke
TV ShowsMasterpiece, America
Star SignScorpio
#Quote
1On television, if you're getting intimate, you must look in people's eyes, which is why I've never used a teleprompter. You see the camera's eye is the eye of the audience, and you must look into it. For the "Masterpiece Theater" segments. I do six or seven a day, memorizing each one before it's to be filmed.
2[on Greta Garbo] Every man's harmless fantasy mistress. She gave you the impression that, if your imagination had to sin, it could at least congratulate itself on its impeccable taste.
3[on Douglas Fairbanks] Fairbanks' glory, the mystery of his visual imagination, is that he could throw away all the text book tricks on the makeshift apparatus of ordinary life. To Fairbanks the limb of a tree suggests a hocks-off; a narrow lane with high walls is a risky, but workable, set of parallel bars; a spear is a pole to vault with.
4[on Mary Pickford] She was the girl every young man wanted to have -- as his sister.
5As always, the British shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.
6I'm still an Englishman in America. An Irish Lancastrian, really. I don't kid myself that I'm from Arkansas.
7Canned music is like audible wallpaper.
8In America the race is on between its decadence and its vitality, and it has plenty of both.
9People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.
#Fact
1His son was road manager for Janis Joplin and was the one to discover her 18 hours after her fatal heroine overdose.
2He was spoofed on Sesame Street by Cookie Monster who was Alistair Cookie.
3In 1934, Charles Chaplin was scheduled to serve as best man at broadcaster Alistair Cooke's marriage to Ruth Emerson (Ruth Emerson Cooke), but Charlie never showed. Reputedly, he and wife-to-be Paulette Goddard were having such a good time at Southern California's Lake Arrowhead, they decided to stay.
4Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume 7, 2003-2005, pages 95-97. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2007.
5Shortly after his death it was discovered that some of his bones had been removed before his body was passed to his family for cremation. Police investigating an illegal trade in bones, used for transplants and sold for thousands of dollars, found that his body was one of many which had been desecrated in the mortuary. His ashes were scattered in New York's Central Park.
6A memorial service was held for him at London's Westminster Abbey on 15th October 2004.
7His second wife, Jane White Hawkes, was a painter and the widow of the son of U.S. Senator Albert W. Hawkes. Their daughter, Susan Cooke Kittredge, is an ordained minister.
8His first wife, Ruth Emerson, was a model and a great-grandniece of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Their son, John Byrne Cooke, was Janis Joplin's road manager from 1967 until her death.
9Cooke worked as a personal assistant to Charlie Chaplin (the Little Tramp) on a projected film about the life of Napoleon. Chaplin had been invited to be Best Man at Cooke's wedding to Ruth Emerson, but the bride's mother objected to the film star's living in sin with actress Paulette Goddard.
10His "Letter from America" began its thirteen week run on 24 March 1946. It ended after 2869 letters in March 2004, weeks before Cooke's death.
11A naturalised US citizen, he was awarded an honorary knighthood in 1973.
12He retired at the age of 95 years in 2004 due to failing health.
13Became a U.S. Citizen in 1941.
14His "Letter From America" radio broadcast to the UK (and the world via the BBC World Service) ran from 1946-2004 making it the world's longest running speech radio show (58 years).

Actor

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Stingers2000TV SeriesS.O.G.
Piece of Cake1988TV Mini-Series
Hitler: The Last Ten Days1973Narrator (voice, uncredited)
The Three Faces of Eve1957Narrator
Omnibus1952-1956TV SeriesHost / Everyman
Celanese Theatre1952TV Series

Writer

TitleYearStatusCharacter
America1972TV Series documentary

Thanks

TitleYearStatusCharacter
The Tramp and the Dictator2002Documentary grateful thanks

Self

TitleYearStatusCharacter
NBC Experiment in Television1970TV SeriesHimself - Host
ABC Stage 671967TV SeriesHimself - Host
NET Journal1966TV Series documentaryNarrator
World in Action1963-1964TV Series documentaryHimself
Three on a Match1963DocumentaryNarrator
Opening Night at Lincoln Center1962TV Movie documentaryHimself - Host
Omnibus1952-1961TV SeriesHimself - Host / Himself / Himself - commentary
Blitz on Britain1960DocumentaryNarrator
Critic at Large1948TV SeriesHimself - Writer / Correspondent
Transatlantic Quiz1946TV SeriesHimself - US Quiz-Master
New Worlds for Old1938Documentary shortHimself - Narrator
All at Sea1933/IIShortHimself
Masterpiece Classic1971-2008TV SeriesHimself - Host
Charlie Rose1996TV SeriesHimself - Guest
Arena1993TV Series documentaryHimself
Alistair Cooke Salute1992TV MovieHimself
Backstage at Masterpiece Theatre1991TV SpecialHimself - Host
The Congress1988TV Movie documentaryHimself - Journalist
Great Performances1988TV SeriesHimself
Masterpiece Theatre: Fifteen Years1986TV MovieHimself - Host
The 37th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards1985TV SpecialHimself - Winner: Governor's Award
Unknown Chaplin1983TV Mini-Series documentaryHimself
The 6th People's Choice Awards1980TV SpecialHimself - Audience Member
Dinah!1975TV SeriesHimself
Jack Paar Tonite1973TV SeriesHimself
Parkinson1972TV SeriesHimself
America1972TV Series documentaryHost

Archive Footage

TitleYearStatusCharacter
The Seventies2015TV Series documentaryHimself
The Unseen Alistair Cooke2008TV Movie documentaryHimself
Horizon2008TV Series documentaryHimself
Forty Years1976TV MovieHimself

Won Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
1985Governor's AwardPrimetime Emmy Awards
1975Primetime EmmyPrimetime Emmy AwardsSpecial Classification of Outstanding Program and Individual AchievementMasterpiece Theatre (1971)
1973Richard Dimbleby AwardBAFTA AwardsAmerica (1972)
1973Personal AwardPeabody AwardsFor his part in "America, a Personal View by Alistair Cooke".
1973Bronze WranglerWestern Heritage AwardsFactual Television ProgramAmerica (1972)
1960Star on the Walk of FameWalk of FameTelevisionOn 8 February 1960. At 1651 Vine Street.

Nominated Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
1956Primetime EmmyPrimetime Emmy AwardsBest MC or Program Host - Male or Female

Known for movies

Himself - Host / Host / Himself / Everyman / Himself - commentary

Omnibus (1952-1961)
as Himself - Host / Host / Himself / Everyman / Himself - commentary

Himself - Journalist

The Congress (1988)
as Himself - Journalist

Himself - Host

Masterpiece Theatre: Fifteen Years (1986)
as Himself - Host

Himself - Host

Masterpiece Classic (1971-2008)
as Himself - Host

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