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10:13 am, September 1st, 2013
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David Frost, the British broadcaster who won fame with a series of dramatic interviews with former president Richard Nixon, has died of a suspected heart attack on Saturday aboard the Queen Elizabeth cruise ship.
He was 74.
The journalist’s family confirmed his death in a statement to the BBC.
In a television career that spanned five decades, Frost hosted game shows and comedy programs, and interviewed world leaders, star athletes, and Hollywood celebrities.
But his most famous moments came during his face-to-face conversations with President Nixon in 1977, three years after the Watergate scandal forced Nixon’s resignation from office.
The confrontation was ultimately dramatized in a hit play and the 2008 movie Frost/Nixon.
On Sunday, Prime Minister David Cameron tweeted, ”My heart goes out to David Frost’s family. He could be — and certainly was with me — both a friend and a fearsome interviewer.”
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