Tom Brook Biography
Tom Brook an English-American Film Industry journalist famous for being the face of Talking Movies on BBC World News since the program’s first broadcast in 1999. He as well contributes as an entertainment industry reporter for a wide range of BBC news outlets in TV, radio, and online.
Tom Brook Age
Brook was born on June 16, 1953, in Ladbroke Grove in London, United Kingdom.
Tom Brook Height and Weight
Brook stands tall at an average height and has an average body weight.
Tom Brook Education
Tom enrolled at a primary school in Hertfordshire and later completed his secondary education at William Ellis School in north London. He then joined Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he earned his degree in Economics in 1975.
Tom Brook Family
Tom was born to Caspar Friedrich Bruck and Dinah Brook. His father, Caspar was born in Breslau in Germany back on August 24th, 1920 but later left in 1933 when his father lost his academic post after the Nazis came to power. The family relocated to the UK in the 1930s.
Bck in the UK, Caspar esnrolled at Cathays High School in Cardiff and later in 1939, he joined the British Army. He as well spent 6 years including stints as a glider pilot and fought in the Battle of El Alamein.
He later served as the first Director of the Consumers Association and then Director of the Family Planning Association before and later served as the first Director of the David Owen Centre for Population Growth Studies, University College Cardiff.
He thereafter got married Dinah Brook, a former education correspondent of The Observer on June 16th, 1948. In 1983, he passed on.
Tom Brook Siblings
Brook was raised along with his elder sister, Sarah Brook born on January 27th, 1951. She resides in Colchester.
Tom Brook Partner
Brook is married to Samuel Wahl the MD, Chair, Department of Pathology at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York. The duo has been together since January 1990. He has a home is on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Tom Brook BBC
Tom is known as the face of Talking Movies on BBC World News fromthe time the programme’s first broadcast in 1999 and known for presenting every episode of the show since it first began.
He is known to have reported extensively on cinema throughout his career. He as well got to be one of the BBC’s most authoritative voices covering cinema from the US. As of 1985 to 1998 he served as the US correspondent for the BBC’s top cinema programme in the UK presented by Barry Norman on BBC One. He as well attended like all the Oscar ceremonies for the past 30 years, routinely reporting live from the red carpet for major BBC news programmes.
He has interviewed top actors and directors in contemporary cinema. He has as well contributes as an entertainment industry reporter for a wide range of BBC news outlets in TV, radio, and online – from the Today programme on Radio 4 in the UK to BBC America.
He started working with BBC back in 1976 as a news trainee and In 1978 he took on his first official BBC job as a producer on the Today programme. Back in 1980 he got posted to the BBC’s New York office to work first as a current affairs producer on radio and subsequently as a reporter.
He is known for having covered in the United States was the shooting of John Lennon in New York on 8 December 1980. He got to be the only British correspondent to report live from the scene shortly after Mr. Lennon was shot.
He as well held positions behind the scenes at the BBC as the Executive Producer of Ekran, BBC Persian’s cinema review programme which was launched in 2009.
Tom Brook Salary
Brook earns an annual estimated salary range of betwen $50,000-$100,000
Tom Brook Net Worth
Brook estimated net worth is under review