Jonathan Dimbleby
Birthday: Born in 1944-07-31 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Deathday: Alive
Jonathan Dimbleby is a British presenter of current affairs and political radio and television programmes, author and historian. He is the son of Richard Dimbleby and younger brother of television presenter David Dimbleby.
TV Credits
The BBC at War
Character: Self - Presenter
An enthralling series exploring how the BBC fought not only Hitler but also the British government to become the institution it is today....
Heseltine: A Life in the Political Jungle
Character: Self
After Michael Heseltine announced his retirement from the House of Commons and to tie in with the publication of his memoirs 'Life in the Jungle' in September 2000, LWT made a two part documentary telling his story....
An African Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby
Character: Self - Reporter
After four decades of reporting from the continent, Jonathan Dimbleby returns to Africa on a 7,000-mile journey to discover how it is changing....
A South American Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby
Character: Self
Jonathan Dimbleby travels to South America to report on dramatic changes in one of the world's least understood continents...
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Character: Self - Historian and Broadcaster
The big names behind the big stories. Laura Kuenssberg talks to those making the news, inside and outside politics....
World in Action
Character:
World in Action was Granada Television’s flagship ITV current affairs series, running from 7 Jan 1963 to 7 Dec 1998, and built a reputation for film-led investigative reporting and a forceful editorial stance. Its journalism produced major public and political repercussions—including investigations associated with miscarriages of justice such as the Birmingham Six—and it also served as a platform for landmark documentary projects, including the first broadcast of “Seven Up!” as part of the stran...
Movie Credits
Churchill's Desert War: The Road to El Alamein
Character: Self - Presenter
This is the story of how the men who fought and died in the Battle of El Alamein were players in a volatile drama scripted by Churchill, Roosevelt, Mussolini and Hitler in the war capitals of London, Washington, Rome and Berlin. Based on Dimbleby's book, Destiny in the Desert, the film sheds new light on the significance of this key campaign, on which Churchill gambled both his own future and that of Britain itself....
Endgame
Character: English Newscaster
The time is the late '80s, a crucial period in the history of South Africa. President P.W. Botha is hanging on to power by a thread as the African National Congress (ANC) takes up arms against apartheid and the country tumbles toward insurrection. A British mining concern is convinced that their interests would be better served in a stable South Africa and they quietly dispatch Michael Young, their head of public affairs, to open an unofficial dialogue between the bitter rivals. Assembling a r...
Death on the Rock
Character: Self - Presenter
Documentary which examined the killing of three Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) members in Gibraltar in March 1988 by the British Special Air Service (codenamed "Operation Flavius"). "Death on the Rock" presented evidence that the IRA members were shot without warning or with their hands up. It was condemned by the British government and denounced in the press as sensationalist. After one of its witnesses retracted his statement, "Death on the Rock" became the first individual documentar...
The Unknown Famine
Character: Self
Jonathan Dimbleby’s landmark 1973 documentary “The Unknown Famine” stands as a pivotal moment in Ethiopian history—a journalistic endeavour that not only exposed a humanitarian crisis but inadvertently helped precipitate the end of Africa’s oldest monarchy. The footage was broadcast by ITV for its flagship affairs series named "This Week"....
Charles: The Monarch and the Man
Character: Narrator
Memorable moments from the life of Charles III, who has now taken the throne as the king of the UK after a lifetime of preparations....
The Trial of Tony Blair
Character: Himself
Biting political satire starring Robert Lindsay as a beleaguered Tony Blair, who stubbornly refuses to see the danger he faces from a Special Tribunal on Iraq that has been set up to investigate war crimes...