Biography

Bob Flick was born on September 5, 1931 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Entertainment Tonight (1981) and NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas (1970). He died on December 31, 2015 in Pasadena, California, USA.

NBC News Robert Flick was on the tarmac of an airfield in Port Kaituma, Guyana, on Nov. 18, 1978, when followers of cult leader Jim Jones opened fire, killing two of his colleagues. Flick helped people to safety and escaped to Puerto Rico, where he filed one of the earliest first-hand reports on the murder-suicide of 900 Jones followers.

He became coordinating producer of a new show, "Entertainment Tonight." Along with director Steve Hirsen, Flick played a founding role in a new kind of celebrity-tabloid journalism just gathering steam.

Flick worked for United Press International, the local NBC affiliate and then for the network. He specialized in tough assignments few others wanted. He was struck on the head covering riots in Watts and Berkeley in the 1960s. He covered the kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst and the seizure of a school bus full of children and a driver in Chowchilla in 1976.