Monday 2 September 2013

Broadcaster David Frost, dead.

David Frost may be best remembered . For the post- Watergate interview with his ex-President Richard Nixon, the veteran British broadcaster is equally at ease as a game show host, journalist and political satirist serious .
Fry 's career in television . Over half a century . Both sides of Atlantic Frost interviewed a long list of the world's most powerful . And famous , including nearly all of the British Prime Minister . And the U.S. President of his time , he was also a talented singer, TV host and personality is cute and charming , he was often described as . Key . His success as an interviewer .
" The interview with him was always happy , but did you know that there are many stories in the next day out of it ," former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said.
Blair's former head of communications Alastair Campbell added on Frost on Twitter as "one of the interviewer 's best for the good of his true will lull you to say something . you did not intend . "
Frost , 74, died of a heart attack on Saturday night aboard the Queen Elizabeth cruise ship , where he is scheduled to deliver a speech , his family said that the BBC said it had received statements from the family of Frostburg . West said it was sad and asked " for privacy during this difficult time ." Cunard cruise company , said the ship left the port of Southampton, England on her Saturday . For a 10-day cruise in the Mediterranean.
Prime Minister David Cameron, who is one . Officers of the first people to send condolences , Frost regarded as "special charm intellectual ability, intelligence, and warmth in the equivalent " While BBC executives praised him as " . Giants of broadcasting " .
Frost began his career almost live the college hosted the 1960 Show , BBC News pinch " the week that was , " and the pioneers who ruthlessly lampooned politicians , the show was following wide and greeting . Signature of Frost "Hello, good evening and welcome " was often imitated.
Frost is popular . UK and had just started working on television in the United States when he became known internationally in 1977 with a series of interviews. Nixon on television .
They are innovative Frost and former president who was trying to salvage his reputation after leaving the White House . Dishonor The Watergate scandal three years ago, at that time, was the most watched news interview . Widely In the history of television.
Interview and his story for the first part of the interview , but Frost said later that he knew he did not have what he wants , while it ended Nixon accepted in error , however. Frost hit him, that was enough . He said Americans need to hear them to know the offense and abuse of power - and that " if you say you 're going to be haunted for the rest. Of your life. " .
"That is totally out of hand , " Frost said later, " that's all I improvise in fact I threw clipboard me down just to show that it was not prepared in any way . I know ... just as Richard Nixon at a greater risk . Than he ever wanted to be in his life and I knew I had to get it right . "
Nixon blamed the press , " I let the American people down, and I have to carry that burden with me for the rest. In my life, " he said.
Face to spawn hit and in 2008 a new generation was introduced to the work of Frost, the film 's Oscar -nominated " Frost / Nixon ," starring Michael . the point is in Frost and Frank Langella as Nixon.
Frost was born on April 7, 1939 in Kent, England, the son of a Methodist preacher.
Young Frost began hosting television while still a student at Cambridge University , and soon . After graduation , he was approached by the BBC to go ahead , " the week that was . " .
He went on to host the show . Sketch called "The Frost Report " and became a regular on the U.S. television camera Frost also co-founded two companies Television , London Weekend Television and TV stations B -am, churning out the amount the rich . of the program.
Over the years, he interviewed a diverse roster of politicians and celebrities from the Russian Mikhail Gorbachev to Pakistan Benazir Bhutto leading entertainment figures such as Orson Welsh and the Beatles .
He is the only person to have interviewed eight British prime minister and the seven U.S. presidents in office 1969-2008 also interviewed Nixon is one of the more memorable moments , including an interview with the Prime Minister stressed Margarito . Margaret Thatcher over the sinking of the Argentine warship during the Falklands conflict.
"He could be - and, of course, is to me - a friend and a formidable interviewer ," Cameron said.
In later years, Frost kept questioning the political leadership , although some criticized him as "too good " of his subjects rather incongruously , he also hosted . Game show called " Through the Keyhole " a spy in the house of the actor from 1987 to 2008 .
" His sense of humor shines through everything he does ," Richard Brock, a producer who worked with Frost , Al Jazeera said the spokesman , "He is not all the interviews political . Some things really kicked out of lightweight " .
Frost wrote about a dozen books, won many awards and was knighted in 1993, most recently he hosted a program for Al Jazeera English , where he has worked since its launch . Many years ago .

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