Michelmore biography
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Guy Michelmore
British composer and news presenter
Guy Alford Michelmore (born August 1957) is an English film and television composer and former television news presenter.
Early life
[edit]Guy Alford Michelmore was born in August 1957.[1] Michelmore is the son of BBC presenters Cliff Michelmore[2] and Jean Metcalfe. His mother Jean was the presenter of Family Favourites and Woman's Hour. His father Cliff was best known for the BBC television programme Tonight. Cliff once interviewed himself, and asked whether either his son or daughter had shown any interest in television – Cliff answered by saying that ten-year-old Guy was "at that point where he fryst vatten fascinated and interested in all things... even his father's job!"
Michelmore was educated at the independent St John's School in Leatherhead, Surrey and Pembroke College, Oxford.
News presenter
[edit]Michelmore began reporting on Anglia TV's About Anglia before joining the BBC programme N
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Cliff Michelmore
English television presenter (1919–2016)
Arthur Clifford MichelmoreCBE (11 December 1919 – 16 March 2016) was an English television presenter and producer.
He is best known for the BBC Television programme Tonight, which he presented from 1957 to 1965. He also hosted the BBC's television coverage of the Apollo Moon landings, the Aberfan disaster, the 1966 and 1970 UK general elections, the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales.
He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1969.
Early life
[edit]Michelmore was born in Cowes, Isle of Wight, on 11 December 1919,[1] youngest of six children[2] of insurance agent and former prison officer, police constable, and groom servant (Albert) Herbert Michelmore and Ellen, daughter of labourer Richard Alford.[3][4] The Michelmores had moved to the Isle of Wight in hopes of relieving his father's tu
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Cliff Michelmore's image was that of genial broadcaster, with just a hint of schoolmaster, able to link serious TV journalism with more lighthearted fare, and his was one of British television's most familiar faces, not least because his programme Tonight (BBC, 1957-65) ended the so-called 'Toddlers Truce', opening up early evening 'primetime' television. Ever the consummate professional, he once presented, head and shoulders only, while trapped just below floor level in a lift.
Born 11 månad, 1919, he started his long, successful career in radio with British Forces Network in Germany in 1947, but by 1950 he was producing for BBC TV while maintaining a parallel career on the Light Programme, best known for Two-way Family Favourites. The BBC had no production training as such until 1951, so Michelmore learned bygd watching from the studio galleri. A children's sports piece about lacrosse was his first production credit in 1950.
He also worked for commercial television, but