- Born
- Died
- Nickname
- The Duke of Collingwood
- One of "The Murrow Boys," Charles Collingwood was hired by Edward R. Murrow as a correspondent for CBS during World War II. After the war Collingwood worked as CBS reporter in California, at the United Nations and at The White House. He also served as Special Assistant to Averell Harriman at the Mutual Security Agency from 1951-52. He was named CBS Chief Foreign Correspondent in 1964.
His work as a broadcast reporter won him many awards during his long career, including an Overseas Press Club award in 1968 and a Peabody Award in 1942.
- IMDb mini biography by: rtvf
- SpouseLouise Allbritton(1946 - February 16, 1979) (her death)
- Queen Elizabeth II named him an Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
- In 1968, he became the first US reporter to report from North Vietnam.
- Longtime correspondent for CBS News.
- He was a friend (and, in Mexico, a neighbor) of Richard Burton, who, in the late 1960s, expressed a wish to direct a film version of Collingwood's novel, "The Defector", to star Elizabeth Taylor and Gregory Peck. Burton also planned to play a small cameo role in the film. However, no film of the book was ever made.
- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 171-174. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998.
- All over the world, people are going to remember all their lives what they were doing when they first heard that President Kennedy had been killed.
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