1. Tom Brook is mainly seen on BBC World News, and the BBC News Channel.
14 Facts About Tom Brook
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Tom Brook is the main presenter of its flagship cinema programme Talking Movies, and has presented every episode since it was first broadcast in February 1999.
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Tom Brook is a member of the Critics Choice Association.
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Tom Brook completed his secondary education at William Ellis School in north London before going on to Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a degree in economics in 1975.
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Tom Brook's parents were Caspar Tom Brook, the first director of the Consumers' Association in Britain, and Dinah, a former education correspondent of The Observer.
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Tom Brook joined the BBC in April 1976 as a news trainee and, after working attachments in Belfast, Birmingham, and Manchester, he was appointed as a producer on Radio 4's Today programme in 1978.
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From 1985 to 1998, Tom Brook was BBC One's US correspondent for the top-rated Film series presented by Barry Norman.
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Tom Brook has an international following among movie fans and key figures in the global film industry.
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Tom Brook has covered the Academy Awards for BBC News every year since 1985, frequently reporting live from the red carpet.
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Tom Brook has interviewed some of the most celebrated names in international cinema including such Twentieth Century greats as James Cagney and Bette Davis.
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Tom Brook has interviewed some of America's most influential personalities from CBS veteran anchorman Walter Cronkite on his last day of presenting at the network as well as former President's Carter and Ford.
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Tom Brook has lived in New York for more than four decades.
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Tom Brook's home is on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
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Tom Brook is married to Samuel Wahl MD, chair, Department of Pathology at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York who has been his partner since January 1990.