Desmond Wilcox

Desmond John Wilcox was a British television producer, documentary filmmaker, journalist and television executive. He worked at the BBC and ITV during his career and was producer of series such as This Week, Man Alive, and That’s Life!. He died of a heart attack in Paddington, London, in 2000, aged 69.

About Desmond Wilcox in brief

Summary Desmond WilcoxDesmond John Wilcox was a British television producer, documentary filmmaker, journalist and television executive. He worked at the BBC and ITV during his career and was producer of series such as This Week, Man Alive, and That’s Life!. Wilcox died of a heart attack in Paddington, London, in 2000, aged 69.

He was posthumously awarded the Grierson Documentary Film Awards Life Tribute in November 2001. A media arts centre at a High School in Rainhill, Merseyside has been opened, named in his honour. He had three children with first wife Patsy Price and two with Esther Rantzen.