Parkinson even interviewed Marlon Brando. Parkinson was a flagship of the BBC's prime time schedule, attracting top names before the chat show circuit was part of the promotional mill. As of December 2008, Parkinson holds 458 credits as a presenter on his own and with others. The last artist to perform on his show was regular guest Jamie Cullum. On 24 November 2007, during recording of the final regular edition of his ITV chat show, broadcast on 16 December, Parkinson fought back tears as he was given an ovation. In 2007, Parkinson appeared in the Australian soap Neighbours as himself. My thanks go out to all those who have worked on the shows down the years and the viewers for their loyal support and occasional kind words. I'm going to take next year off to write my autobiography and consider other television projects.
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On 26 June 2007, Parkinson announced his retirement:Īfter three enjoyable and productive years at ITV, and after 25 years of doing my talk show I have decided that this forthcoming series will be my last.
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In October 2003, Parkinson had a controversial interview with Meg Ryan while she was in the UK to promote In the Cut, calling it his most difficult television moment.
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From 31 January to 3 February 2007, Parkinson presented "Symphony at the Movies" at Sydney Opera House, where he shared stories about his interviews with movie stars and introduced music from films. He again played himself in Richard Curtis's 2003 romantic comedy, Love Actually, interviewing the character Billy Mack, played by Bill Nighy. From 1995 to 1999, he hosted the BBC One daytime programme Going for a Song. However, the cinéma vérité style in which it was shot led to complaints from viewers who believed it depicted real events. On Halloween 1992, Parkinson appeared as himself in the television drama Ghostwatch as the studio link during a fictional, apparently live, paranormal investigation. In 19, Parkinson hosted 15 episodes of Parkinson One to One for Yorkshire Television, a series of interview programmes which continued in the style of his BBC talk show but with each episode dedicated to a single celebrity guest. In 1985, he stood in for Barry Norman as presenter of Film 85. He also became host of Thames Television's Give Us a Clue from Michael Aspel. Parkinson was one of the original line-up of TV-am in 1983, with Angela Rippon, Anna Ford, David Frost and Robert Kee, all subsequently replaced with younger presenters within a matter of months. By his own reckoning, he has interviewed 2,000 of the world's celebrities.
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From 1969 he presented Granada's Cinema, a late-night film review programme, (which included his first star interview with Laurence Olivier), before in July 1971 presenting his eponymous BBC series Parkinson, which ran until April 1982 and from January 1998 until December 2007, leaving the BBC for ITV1 midway through the second run. He was one of the reporters and presenters on the five-times-a-week daily news magazine show Twenty-Four Hours on BBC1 from March 1966 until January 1968. Career Television ĭuring the 1960s, Parkinson moved into television, working on current affairs programmes for the BBC and Manchester-based Granada Television. He saw active service in Egypt in the Suez Crisis as a British Army press liaison officer. In the course of his two years' National Service, which began in July 1955, he received a commission as an officer in the Royal Army Pay Corps, becoming the youngest captain in the British Army at the time.
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He worked as a features writer for the Manchester Guardian, working alongside Michael Frayn, and later on the Daily Express in London. Parkinson began as a journalist on local newspapers straight after leaving school. A Michael Parkinson World XI played at the Scarborough Festival between 19. He once kept Boycott out of the Barnsley Cricket Club team by scoring a century and 50 in two successive matches. He was a club cricketer, and both he and his opening partner at Barnsley Cricket Club, Dickie Bird, had trials for Yorkshire together with Geoffrey Boycott. The son of a miner, he was educated at Barnsley Grammar School after passing the eleven-plus and in 1951 passed two O-Levels: in art and English language. Parkinson was born on Thursday, 28 March, 1935, in the village of Cudworth, near Barnsley, then in the West Riding of Yorkshire (since 1974 included in the new metropolitan county of South Yorkshire).