frequently reporting live from the red carpet. Brook has interviewed some of the most celebrated names in international cinema including such Twentieth Century greats as James Cagney and Bette Davis. He has also interviewed some of America's most influential personalities from CBS veteran anchorman Walter Cronkite on his last day of presenting at the network as well as former President's Carter and Ford. More recently, some of the big names he has interviewed include Adam Driver, Cynthia Erivo, Dev Patel, Renee Zellweger and Barry Jenkins, Over the years, Brook has also contributed to numerous additional BBC programmes and outlets, including Breakfast, Correspondent, Front Row, The Late Show, The Six O'Clock News, BBC America, BBC News Channel, Hard Talk Extra, and Today on BBC Radio 4. He has been a frequent online contributor. In 2013 he started writing The Reel World column for BBC Culture on new developments on the big screen. Personal life Tom Brook holds both UK and US passports. He has lived in New York for more than four decades. His home is on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He is married to Samuel Wahl MD, Chair, Department of Pathology at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York who has been his partner since January 1990. References External links BBC UK Profile BBC World News Profile 1953 births Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge BBC World News BBC newsreaders and journalists English television presenters English film critics English expatriates in the United States Living people Writers from London