Gordon Honeycombe, the British national newscaster with ITN, passed away at 79 due to leukemia. He died six years after the death of his wife, Barbara.
Born in Karachi, British Raj, in 1936, Honeycombe was a prominent figure in television for decades. Apart from that, he was also a playwright, author, and stage actor.
Quick Facts
| Full Name | Ronald Gordon Honeycombe |
| Date of Birth | 27 September 1936 |
| Place of Birth | Karachi, British Raj |
| Nationality | British |
| Date of Death | 9 October 2015 (aged 79) |
| Occupation | Broadcaster, author, playwright, actor |
Newscaster: Gordon Honeycombe Cause Of Death -How Did He Die?
British newscaster Gordon Honeycombe died of leukemia on 9 October 2015, aged 79. He had been in a palliative care unit in Perth, Australia.
Honeycombe was battling with illness for some time before his death. In the years preceding his death, he had been living in Perth, Western Australia, where he had continued writing and voice-over work.
A statement released on the 79-year-old official TV-am archives website revealed that Honeycombe had been ill for some time. It said he spent a few weeks in a specialist care home but was “alert and doing crosswords up to the very end.”
According to his son Oliver, Honeycombe died in the afternoon of 9 October while watching television in his Cornwall home while holding a bottle of wine.
Gordon Honeycombe Wife And Children
Gordon Honeycombe married his wife Barbara for 43 years before her death in 2009.
The couple married in the late 1960s and were together till the wife’s death. There is not much information about the married life of the newscaster. They were parents of son Oliver Honeycombe.
Gordon Honeycombe Family Background
Gordon Honeycombe was born in Karachi, British Raj (now Pakistan), on 27 September 1936. His father was stationed in India during the British regime at the time of his birth.
His family came to Britain after World War Two. He studied at Edinburgh Academy and later read English at University College, Oxford. In Hong Kong, he competed National Service with the Royal Artillery. During his time there, he was an announcer at Radio Hong Kong.
After returning to the United Kingdom, Gordon ventured into an acting career in movies as a newsreader and newscaster. Some of the films he appeared in are Blood of the Vampire (1958), Stretcher Bearer, Ransom (1974), The Medusa Touch (1978), Castaway (1986), The Fourth Protocol (1987), and Bullseye!
Later, he settled in Perth, Western Australia, where he continued to work in radio, television, and theatre. In addition, he worked in voice-over work for radio and television and documentary narrations.
Gordon Honeycombe Net Worth
The net worth of Gordon Honeycombe during his death has not been revealed. However, it is estimated that he was worth at least $1 million in 2015.
Apart from his roles as a newscaster, Honeycombe was also an author, playwright, and stage actor. He was an actor at Stratford-upon-Avon and the Aldwych Theatre, London.
He was a newscaster at ITN from 1965 to 1977 and was voted by readers of the Daily Mirror and The Sun twice as the most popular newscaster in Britain.
After 1977, he focused on writing and worked as a presenter for television shows for BBC, Southern Television, and Scottish Television. In 1984, he returned to news reading and was a chief newsreader at TV-am.
He also recorded numerous voice-overs and narrations of documentaries, commercials, and cinema shorts.