- Born Name: Alfred Alistair Cooke
- Birthday: 1908-11-20 (Year-Month-Day)
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- Children: John Byrne Cooke (by Ruth Emerson), Susan Byrne Cooke (by Jane White Hawkes)
- Medium: Journalist and broadcaster
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For the peer, please see Alistair Cooke, Baron LexdenFor the English cricketer, please see Alastair CookAlfred Alistair Cooke KBE (20 November 1908 – 30 March 2004) was a British/American journalist, television personality and broadcaster. Outside his journalistic output, which included Letter from America and Alistair Cookes America, he was well known in the United States as the host of PBS Masterpiece Theater from 1971 to 1992. After holding the job for 22 years, and having worked in television for 42 years, Cooke retired in 1992, although he continued to present Letter from America until shortly before his death. He was the father of author and folk singer John Byrne Cooke.