Gordon Honeycombe

Ronald Gordon Honeycombe (born September 27, 1936) is an author, playwright and stage actor, well known in the United Kingdom as a national television newscaster.

Career highlights

Honeycombe joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, working from 1962to 1964 as an actor at Stratford-upon-Avon and at the Aldwych Theatre, London. From 1965-77 at ITN, he became nationally known as a newscaster. He was twice voted the most popular newscaster in Britain, by readers of the Daily Mirror and of The Sun. From 1977 to 1984, he concentrated on writing, while continuing many other activities, such as presenting TV shows for Scottish Television, Southern Television and for the BBC. He returned to regular newsreading from 1984 to 1989 as chief newsreader at TV-am, becoming Britain's longest-serving TV newscaster. He was in 1986 voted the most popular male TV newscaster by readers of Woman's Own magazine., and received in 1989 the Television and Radio Industries Club Newscaster of the Year Award.

Related Topics:
Royal Shakespeare Company - Stratford-upon-Avon - Aldwych Theatre - London - ITN - Daily Mirror - The Sun - Scottish Television - Southern Television - BBC - TV-am - Television and Radio Industries Club

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While appearing on British television, he also recorded voice-overs or narrations of many TV and other documentaries, training films, commercials and cinema shorts, and has been involved in many industrial presentations, conferences, in-house videos and fund-raising charity events.

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He produced and directed his own play The Redemption for the Festival of Perth in Western Australia in March 1990, and has settled in that area.

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