Nationality British Name Gordon Honeycombe | ||
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Full Name Ronald Gordon Honeycombe Died October 9, 2015, Australia Parents Gordon Samuel Honeycombe, Dorothy Louise Reid Fraser Movies and TV shows Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World, Neither the Sea Nor the Sand, Then She Was Gone Books Red Watch, Neither the sea nor the sand, The murders of the Black, More Murders of the Black, Murders of the Black Museum Similar People Martyn Lewis, Burleigh Smith, Norman Wanstall | ||
Family history part one presented by gordon honeycombe 1979
Ronald Gordon Honeycombe (27 September 1936 – 9 October 2015) was a British newscaster, author, playwright and stage actor.
Contents
- Family history part one presented by gordon honeycombe 1979
- Gordon Honeycombe 1970s and 80s
- Career highlights
- Appearances
- Film
- British stage
- Australian stage
- Works
- Books
- Stage and radio dramatisations
- Television plays
- Musical adaptation
- References
Gordon Honeycombe was born in Karachi, in the British Raj, and educated at the Edinburgh Academy and read English at University College, Oxford. (His degree was later raised (automatically) to an MA). He completed National Service with the Royal Artillery, mainly in Hong Kong, where he was also an announcer with Radio Hong Kong. Returning to the UK, he embarked on an acting career which led to television and public prominence as a national newscaster with ITN.
He 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.
Gordon Honeycombe 1970s and 80s
Career highlights
Honeycombe joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, working from 1962 to 1964 as an actor at Stratford-upon-Avon and at the Aldwych Theatre, London. From 1965 to 1977 at ITN, he became nationally known as a newscaster. He was twice voted the most popular newscaster in Britain, by readers of the Daily Mirror and of The Sun. From 1977 to 1984, he concentrated on writing, while continuing many other activities, such as presenting television shows for Scottish Television, Southern Television and for the BBC. He returned to regular newsreading from 1984 to 1989 as chief newsreader at TV-am. He 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. While appearing on British television, he also recorded voice-overs or narrations of many television and other documentaries, training films, commercials and cinema shorts, and was involved in many industrial presentations, conferences, in-house videos and fund-raising charity events.
He produced and directed his own play The Redemption for the Festival of Perth in Western Australia, in March 1990, and settled in that area.
Appearances
Beside the appearances listed below, Honeycombe also presented, appeared in and narrated many television programmes and appeared in many television plays and series. He has also sung at major fund-raising events for various charities.
Film
British stage
The Physicists in 1963. Aldwych Theatre
Australian stage
Works
From 1965, as well as his own books, Honeycombe wrote for television, radio, stage and films. One of his best-known books is the horror novel Neither the Sea Nor the Sand. Early in his career, Honeycombe wrote two horror novels, described by horror historian Stefan R Dziemianowicz as "atmospheric modern gothics whose rugged natural northern English settings resonate with their unsparing supernatural horrors." The first of these, Neither the Sea Nor the Sand, tells the story of a woman whose dead lover returns to life. It was followed by Dragon Under the Hill, where a history professor in Northumberland finds himself re-enacting a tragedy that took place in the Viking era. Dziemianowicz noted that since Honeycombe's books were published before the horror boom of the 1970s, they have been "greatly overlooked as a result".