Alistair Cooke was known to millions as the graceful, amazingly well-read host of Masterpiece Theatre for 22 years. But this very public side of a very outgoing man was just the tip of the iceberg ...

Alistair Cooke, the ultra-civilized, silver-haired British broadcaster best known to American audiences as the host of "Masterpiece Theatre," died Tuesday at his home in New York. He had heart ...

To most Americans, ALISTAIR COOKE was the baronial M.C. of Masterpiece Theatre--a genial gent so famous that he was gently parodied as Alistair Cookie on Sesame Street and Alistair Beagle in ...

Alistair Cooke. Americans of a certain age remember Cooke as the host of Masterpiece Theater from its inception in 1970 till 1992, and the writer-presenter of Alistair Cooke’s America.

Returning to England and, having changed his name to Alistair, Cooke joined the BBC in 1934 as a film critic. He has been the BBC commentator on American affairs since 1938.

Alistair Cooke was born Alfred Cooke in Salford, a suburb of Manchester, on Nov. 20, 1908. He legally added Alistair to his name as a college student, saying it had always been his nickname.

NEW YORK -- NEW YORK -- After Alistair Cooke's death in the early morning of March 30, 2004, he was wheeled out of his Upper East Side apartment on a collapsible gurney and whisked away into the ...

LONDON, March 30 -- Alistair Cooke, who died at midnight Tuesday in New York at age 95, was fond of citing George Bernard Shaw's dictum that the United States and Britain are "two nations divided ...