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Sir David Paradine Frost, (7 April 1939 – 31 August 2013) was an English journalist, comedian, writer, media personality and television host. After graduating from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Frost rose to prominence in the UK when he was chosen to host the satirical programme ''That Was the Week That Was'' in 1962. His success on this show led to work as a host on US television. He became known for his television interviews with senior political figures, among them The Nixon Interviews with former United States President Richard Nixon in 1977, which were adapted into a stage play and film. Frost was one of the "Famous Five" who were behind the launch of ITV breakfast station TV-am in 1983. For the BBC, he hosted the Sunday morning interview programme ''Breakfast with Frost'' from 1993 to 2005. He spent two decades as host of ''Through the Keyhole''. From 2006 to 2012 he hosted the weekly programme ''Frost Over the World'' on Al Jazeera English and from 2012, the weekly programme ''The Frost Interview''. Frost died on 31 August 2013, aged 74, on board the cruise ship MS ''Queen Elizabeth'', on which he had been engaged as a speaker. In March 2014, his memorial stone was unveiled in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey for his contribution to British culture. == Early life == David Paradine Frost was born in Tenterden, Kent, on 7 April 1939, the son of a Methodist minister of Huguenot descent,〔Stuart Jeffries (Obituary: Sir David Frost ), ''The Guardian'', 1 September 2013〕 the Rev. Wilfred John "W. J." Paradine Frost, and his wife, Mona (Aldrich); he had two elder sisters.〔(TimeLine Theatre Company, Chicago: Frost/Nixon Study Guide ) Retrieved 2 October 2011.〕〔(Frost, famous for Nixon interview, dies | The Journal Gazette )〕 While living in Gillingham, Kent, he was taught in the Bible class of the Sunday school at his father's church (Byron Road Methodist) by David Gilmore Harvey, and subsequently started training as a Methodist local preacher, which he did not complete.〔(Obituary: Sir David Frost ), ''BBC News'', 2 September 2013.〕 Frost attended Barnsole Road Primary School in Gillingham, then Gillingham Grammar School and finally – while residing in Raunds – Wellingborough Grammar School. Throughout his school years he was an avid football and cricket player,〔 and was offered a contract with Nottingham Forest F.C. For two years before going to university he was a lay preacher following his witnessing of an event presided over by the Christian evangelist Billy Graham.〔 Frost studied at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, from 1958, graduating from the university with a Third in English.〔J. Hughes-Onslow, "Sir David Frost", ''The Oldie'', May 2014, p. 83.〕 He was editor of both the university's student paper, ''Varsity'', and the literary magazine ''Granta''. He was also secretary of the Footlights Drama Society,〔 which included actors such as Peter Cook and John Bird. During this period, Frost appeared on television for the first time in an edition of Anglia Television's ''Town And Gown'', performing several comic characters. "The first time I stepped into a television studio", he once remembered, "it felt like home. It didn't scare me. Talking to the camera seemed the most natural thing in the world."〔(Obituary: Sir David Frost ), ''The Telegraph'', 1 September 2013〕 According to some accounts, Frost was the victim of snobbery from the group with which he associated at Cambridge, which has been confirmed by Barry Humphries.〔Humphrey Carpenter ''That Was Satire That Was: The Satire Boom of the 1960s'', London: Victor Gollancz, 2000, p. 207.〕 Christopher Booker, while asserting that Frost's one defining characteristic was ambition, commented that he was impossible to dislike.〔Carpenter, pp. 207-8.〕 According to the satirist John Wells, the Old Etonian actor Jonathan Cecil congratulated Frost around this time for "that wonderfully silly voice" he used while performing, but then discovered that it was Frost's real voice.〔 After leaving university, Frost became a trainee at Associated-Rediffusion. Meanwhile, having already gained an agent, Frost performed in cabaret at the Blue Angel nightclub in Berkeley Square, London during the evenings.〔〔Carpenter, pp. 208-9.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Frost」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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