1. Desmond John Wilcox was a British television producer, documentary filmmaker, journalist and television executive.
14 Facts About Desmond Wilcox
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Desmond Wilcox was then a training apprentice with the Outward Bound Sea School and left home to work as a deckhand in the merchant marine.
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In 1949 Desmond Wilcox began a career in journalism as a reporter on a weekly newspaper.
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In 1960 Desmond Wilcox moved to television as a reporter on ITV's This Week current affairs programme, where he stayed for five years until joining the BBC.
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Desmond Wilcox was co-editor and presenter of the landmark Man Alive series in 1965.
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Desmond Wilcox later formed the Man Alive Unit as well as providing the distinctive voice-over in the weekly current-affairs programme TEMPO directed by Mike Hodges.
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From 1972 to 1980, Desmond Wilcox was head of general features at the BBC.
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Desmond Wilcox made series including Americans, The Visit, Black in Blue and A Day in the Life.
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Desmond Wilcox wrote the book Explorers, based upon the BBC television series of the same name, about the journeys of ten explorers.
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Desmond Wilcox married firstly Patsy Price, and they had three children together called Claire, Adam, and Cassandra.
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In 1992 Desmond Wilcox converted to Judaism, the religion of his second wife.
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Desmond Wilcox died of a heart attack in Paddington, London, in 2000, at the age of 69.
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In 2023, in the ITV1 drama The Long Shadow Desmond Wilcox was portrayed by the actor Adam James.
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Desmond Wilcox was posthumously awarded the Grierson Documentary Film Awards Life Tribute in November 2001.