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Sir David Paradine Frost OBE (7 April 1939 – 31 August 2013) was a British 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 programme That Was the Week That Was in 1962.
Sep 2, 2013 · Sir David Frost was a household name, a man who became a broadcasting legend on both sides of the Atlantic. He began his career at the cutting edge of television satire and went on to...
He is currently in pre-production on a major documentary on Queen Maria, the grand-daughter of Queen Victoria, to air in 2018 in Europe. His productions have been featured at film festivals at the French Historical Festivals in Bordeaux, among others in Europe. View full bio.
It was 1962 and Sherrin had been tasked with creating a ‘subversive’television show to capture the changing mood of the times. What caught Sherrin's attention was Frost's impersonation of the prime minister, Harold Macmillan (a routine not dissimilar to the act Frost had seen Peter Cook perform, it must be said).
Sep 1, 2013 · Knighted in 1993, he had been awarded the OBE 23 years earlier, aged only 31, for his services to television. By the mid-1970s he had amassed seven major international industry awards, a number...
Aug 31, 2013 · On July 20 and 21, 1969, during the British television Apollo 11 coverage, he presented David Frost's Moon Party for LWT, a ten-hour discussion and entertainment marathon from LWT's Wembley Studios, on the night Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.
In a career spent interviewing the great and the good, David Paradine Frost has emerged from over 40 years of broadcasting with a knighthood, the friendship of presidents and prime ministers, and an iconic status in British television.
