Ronald Gordon Honeycombe was a British newscaster, author, playwright and stage actor.
14 Facts About Gordon Honeycombe
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Gordon Honeycombe was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and read English at University College, Oxford.
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Gordon Honeycombe completed National Service with the Royal Artillery, mainly in Hong Kong, where he was an announcer with Radio Hong Kong.
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Gordon Honeycombe later settled in Perth, Western Australia, where he continued to work in radio, television and theatre, and was regularly engaged in voice-over work for radio and television, and in documentary narrations.
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Gordon Honeycombe was twice voted the most popular newscaster in Britain, by readers of the Daily Mirror and of The Sun.
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Gordon Honeycombe returned to regular newsreading from 1984 to 1989 as chief newsreader at TV-am.
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Gordon Honeycombe was voted the most popular male TV newscaster by readers of Woman's Own magazine in 1986, and received the Television and Radio Industries Club Newscaster of the Year Award in 1989.
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Gordon Honeycombe produced and directed his own play The Redemption for the Festival of Perth in Western Australia, in March 1990, and settled in that area.
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Beside the appearances listed below, Gordon Honeycombe presented, appeared in and narrated many television programmes and appeared in various television plays and series.
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From 1965, as well as his own books, Gordon Honeycombe wrote for television, radio, stage and films.
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Dziemianowicz said that since Gordon Honeycombe's books were published before the horror boom of the 1970s, they have been "greatly overlooked as a result".
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Gordon Honeycombe was a freemason under the United Grand Lodge of England, initiated in 1959 in the Apollo University Lodge No 357.
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Gordon Honeycombe had a keen interest in his family history, carrying out research as well as organising extended family gatherings.
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Gordon Honeycombe died on 9 October 2015, following a long period of illness.