Sir David Frost died at 74 after a heart attack on board a cruise ship. He had been giving a speech aboard the Queen Elizabeth on Saturday night. Many people at the scene were holding back tears and one woman was openly sobbing. He interviewed former US President Richard Nixon. Frost interviewed Nixon in a series of meetings at The BBC's Barney Jones, who edited his Breakfast with Frost programme on the BBC for more than 15 years, said: "David loved broadcasting, did it brilliantly for more than 50 years and was eagerly looking forward to a host of projects including interviewing the prime minister before his sudden death. We will all miss him .Minister David Cameron said:My heart goes out to David Frost's family. He could be and certainly was with me both a friend and a fearsome interviewer.
Born in Kent, Sir David studied at Cambridge University where he became secretary of the Footlights , and met comedy greats such as Peter Cook, Graham Chapman and John Bird.After university he work at ITV before he was asked to the BBC program That Was The Week That Was, which ran between 1962 and 1963.Casting a satirical eye over the week's news, the show boasted scriptwriters John Cleese, John Betjeman and Dennis Potter.
Sir David's often-mimicked catchphrase "hello, good evening and welcome" was now in full use.He was a master of current events, incredibly incisive analyst and someone who is really irreplaceable.
In 1993, the year he was knighted, he began presenting Breakfast with Frost which had begun life on ITV a Sunday show on BBC in which he interviewed newsworthy figures.
Sir David joined broadcaster Al-Jazeera in 2006 when it launched its English-speaking service.He married his second wife, Lady Carina Fitzalan-Howard, in 1983 and they had three sons.

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