- Roger Climpson was born on 18 October 1931 in Peterborough, England, United Kingdom.
Climpson emigrated to Australia in 1949. I n 1952, he meet his future wife Claire.
His television career started in 1957, when he commenced work as an announcer, weather reporter and news reader, with Channel 9.
Climpson left Channel 9 in 1965, after a pay dispute. Being now unemployed, he commenced working at his father's butcher shop.
During this time, he obtained a job with Channel 7 as a news reader, where he stayed for 15 years.
Now a very familiar face, he took on hosting "This Is Your Life", then returned to news reading in 1978.
In 1982, he retired from television, but returned in 1989 as news reader for "Seven News", where he stayed until 1995, when diagnosis of prostate cancer.
1997 saw Climpson host of "Australia's Most Wanted", which lasted until 1998 when he retired again from television.
- IMDb mini biography by: Paul Gerard Kennedy
- SpouseClaire Climpson(September 17, 1955 - September 17, 2025) (his death, 3 children)
- ChildrenStephen ClimpsonSally Climpson
- Top Australian TV personality right from the days of its birth in 1956. He has hosted This is Your Life and Australia's Most Wanted.
- Was a chairman of a Christian radio station, FM103.2 in Sydney.
- Former anchor of Australia's Seven Nightly News.
- Once collapsed in the Channel 7 TV studio, just moments before he was to go live across Australia on an edition of Seven News. He was relieved of his duties while he recovered at home, before making a triumphant return to the airwaves a few months later.
- On Australia Day 2004 he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM).
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