The last Frost report

In Roman times it became the tendency to execute messengers of bad news. Such a thing would never have happened to David Frost, who became as valuable to the news as the news itself.

Not just the reporting of it, but also the observance, and the comment. The satire boom on television owes a huge debt to him. It is also testament to his career that films and dramas such as Frost/Nixon were made about him. But Sir David had his own cinema career too. In The V.I.P.s  in 1962 he cheerfully stalks Orson Welles's film director (vaguely based on Orson Welles himself.)