11 Facts About Cyril Pearl

Cyril Alston Pearl was an Australian journalist, author, and television personality.

Cyril Pearl was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, and Hale College, Perth, after the family moved to Western Australia.

Cyril Pearl returned to Victoria to attended the University of Melbourne, where he studied philosophy and Russian, leaving without a degree.

Cyril Pearl founded Transition Press, with artist Irma Janetzki, whom he married in 1934.

Cyril Pearl had become an accomplished reporter, writer and sub-editor by the time it closed three years later.

Cyril Pearl left The Daily Telegraph in 1950 then resigned from Consolidated Press entirely in 1953 and moved back to Melbourne.

Cyril Pearl scripted the film Anzac by Adrian and Jennie Boddington, which pioneered the use of historical stills with rostrum camera effects and was amongst early Australian Film Institute Award winners.

Cyril Pearl wrote more than 20 books in the last three decades of his life.

Cyril Pearl had a special interest in social history, biography and politics, and research for these works sometimes took him overseas.

Cyril Pearl made a brief return to journalism after Rupert Murdoch persuaded him to become editor of The Sunday Mirror in Sydney in 1960.

Cyril Pearl died in 1987, survived by his second wife, and the younger of his two sons.