About Cliff Michelmore
Arthur Clifford Michelmore (11 December 1919 – 16 March 2016) was an English television presenter and producer. He presented the BBC Television programme Tonight from 1957 to 1965. He also hosted the BBC's television coverage of the Apollo Moon landings, the Aberfan disaster, the 1966 and 1970 UK general elections, the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1969. His father died when Michelmore was two years old, and he was raised – with five siblings – by his mother in a terraced house near the Cowes boatyards until being sent to live with his sister and her husband, a farmer.
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