Kenneth Kendall worked for many years as a newsreader for the BBC, where he was a contemporary of fellow newsreaders Richard Baker and Robert Dougall.
13 Facts About Kenneth Kendall
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Kenneth Kendall is remembered as the host of the Channel 4 game show Treasure Hunt, which ran between 1982 and 1989, as well as the host of The World Tonight in the 1968 science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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Kenneth Kendall read Modern Languages at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, for one year before being called up to the British Army.
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Kenneth Kendall joined the Coldstream Guards where he was commissioned as a lieutenant.
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Kenneth Kendall arrived in Normandy ten days after D-Day but was wounded about a month later.
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Kenneth Kendall hoped to join the Foreign Office but instead joined the BBC in 1948 as a radio newsreader.
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Kenneth Kendall became known for his elegant dress sense and was voted best-dressed newsreader by Style International and No 1 newscaster by Daily Mirror readers in 1979.
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Kenneth Kendall left the BBC in 1961, and from 1961 to 1969 was a freelance newsreader, working occasionally for ITN and presenting Southern Television's Day By Day.
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Kenneth Kendall made cameo appearances as himself in television dramas; he featured in the 1966 Adam Adamant episode "The Doomsday Plan", in which he is kidnapped and impersonated, and he appeared in the 1966 Doctor Who serial The War Machines.
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Kenneth Kendall rejoined BBC News in 1969, and finally retired from newsreading on 23 December 1981; Kendall was unable to read his final news bulletin because he slipped on ice and broke his arm.
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Kenneth Kendall's retirement allowed him to work on the popular Channel 4 programme Treasure Hunt throughout its first run, which featured Anneka Rice as a "skyrunner".
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Kenneth Kendall lived in Cowes on the Isle of Wight with his partner Mark Fear, with whom he had been since 1989.
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Kenneth Kendall died on 14 December 2012, following a stroke a few weeks previously.