David Frost: Luminary Television Presenter & Journalist Dies at 74 (Video)

Sir David Paradine Frost, an English journalist, comedian and media personality, died of an apparent heart attack on Saturday while aboard a Cunard cruise liner, the MS Queen Elizabeth, BBC News reported.

British Prime Minister David Cameron paid tribute to Frost saying, ""He could be - and certainly was with me - both a friend and a fearsome interviewer."

Frost was the only person to have interviewed all eight British prime ministers serving between 1964 and 2010, and all seven U.S. presidents in office between 1969 and 2008, news reports said. Frost had been on television for 40 years and estimated to be worth 200 Pounds.

From 1969 to 1972, Frost hosted the David Frost Show where he conducted interviews with some of pop cultures biggest icons, including John Lennon and Sammy Davis Jr.

Frost was best known for the Nixon Interviews, a series of 90-minute interviews with former president Richard Nixon. In it, Frost taped around 29 hours of interview with Nixon over four weeks, and was syndicated on U.S. television. The interviews were noted for Nixon's first apology to the American people for his involvement in the the Watergate scandal. This spawned the stage production Frost/Nixon in London, which later was adapted into a feature film starring Michael Sheen as Frost and Frank Langella as Nixon. The film was directed by Ron Howard, and nominated for five Academy Awards.

In his career, Frost worked for BBC, and later Al Jazeera, where he presented Frost Over the World. Frost was noted for his philanthropy, a former vice-president of the Motor Neurone Disease charity and patron of the Alzheimer's Research Trust.

Frost won a lifetime achievement award at the 2009 Emmy Awards.

Frost was also known for several relationships with high profile women, including British actress Janette Scott, Dihann Carroll, and socialite Caroline Cushing. He was married to Lady Carina Fitzalan-Howard, daughter of the 17th Duke of Norfolk.

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Sir David Frost, Broadcast Journalism, President Richard Nixon

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