Sir David Frost, Dead, age 73

[kpete]

LONDON—
Veteran British journalist and broadcaster David Frost, who won fame around the world for his TV interviews with former President Richard Nixon, has died, his family told the BBC. He was 74.

Frost died of a suspected heart attack on Saturday night aboard the Queen Elizabeth cruise ship, where he was due to give a speech, the family said. The cruise company Cunard said its vessel left the English port of Southampton on Saturday for a 10-day cruise in the Mediterranean.

Known both for an amiable personality and incisive interviews with leading public figures, Frost's career in television news and entertainment spanned almost half a century. He was the only person to have interviewed all six British prime ministers serving between 1964 and 2007 and the seven U.S. presidents in office between 1969 and 2008. Outside world affairs, his roster ranged from Orson Welles to Muhammad Ali to Clint Eastwood.


http://www.latimes.com/obituaries/la-me-david-frost-dies-at-74-20130901,0,2294829.story

[Ohio Joe]

1. RIP - nt

[MADem]

2. WOW, young....what a shame. Didn't get to enjoy his cruise, either, poor guy.

I enjoyed his show when I got a chance to see it.

[dipsydoodle]

3. Some of us in the UK will remember him right back to 1962 and TWTWTW.

Good guy. RIP.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. TWTWTW....I remember that show!

We have just aged outselves, haven't we?

[dipsydoodle]

7. You had your own version in the US after our's here -

maybe partly coinciding. Ours started 1962. It ended here when elections were coming up due to its political content and was a shame.

Yes - haven't we.

[Jefferson23]

4. RIP. MSM does not have anyone like him any longer, imo. n/t

[KittyWampus]

5. He reminds me of a different time in journalism. We often think back to a supposed golden age that

never really was. But with Journalism I do think there was a sliver in time when it rose to the occasion.