Broadcaster David Frost dies
Broadcaster David Frost, best known internationally for his interviews with ex-US president Richard Nixon, dies aged 74 after a suspected heart attack.
David Frost, the veteran television host, author and producer, has died at the age of 74 following a heart attack.
Frost was the only person to have interviewed the last seven presidents of the US and the last six prime ministers of the UK.
"Sir David died of a heart attack last night aboard the Queen Elizabeth which is a Cunard [cruise] liner where he was giving a speech. His family are devastated and ask for privacy at this difficult time," the Frost family said in a statement read on BBC television on Sunday.
David Cameron, the British Prime Minister, immediately paid tribute to him.
"My heart goes out to David Frost's family. He could be - and certainly was with me - both a friend and a fearsome interviewer," Cameron said on Twitter.
Sir David Frost is most famous for his interviews with Richard Nixon, the former US president, in 1977 during which he apologised for the Watergate scandal when his Republican party staff bugged the opposition Democrats' offices.
He has been awarded all the major television awards - the Emmy Award (for The David Frost Show - twice); the Royal Television Society Silver Medal and the Richard Dimbleby Award in the UK and, internationally, the Golden Rose of Montreux.
In 2005, he was awarded BAFTA's highest honour, the BAFTA Fellowship. He was honoured by the Museum of the Moving Image in New York in 1998 and by the Museum of Broadcasting in New York in 1999.
Born in 1939, Frost was part of the Cambridge Footlights while at university and first made his name with BBC television's satirical That was the Week that was (TW3) in the early 1960s.
His career spanned journalism, comedy writing and daytime television presenting, including The Frost Report. where he first used the phrase "Hello, good evening and welcome".
Frost was later a co-founder and presenter of the UK breakfast television station, TV-am, in 1983 and presented 500 editions of the Sunday morning interview programme Breakfast with Frost for the BBC. More recently, Frost had been with Al Jazeera English since its launch in 2006.
