biography
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Dimbleby, Richard (Frederick)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1913–65)
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| biography:
| Broadcaster, born in Richmond on Thames, SW Greater London, UK. He was educated at Mill Hill School, near London, and worked on the editorial staff of various newpapers before joining the BBC in 1931. He became the Corporation's first foreign correspondent, its first war correspondent, and was the first radio man to go into Berlin and Belsen at the end of World War 2. In the post-war era he established himself as a magisterial TV anchorman on Panorama and a commentator on major events, especially royal occasions and major funerals (such as President Kennedy and Winston Churchill). |
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