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Lowell Thomas

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Born April 6, 1892 · Woodington, Ohio, USA

Died August 29, 1981

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Biography

Lowell Jackson Thomas was an American writer, broadcaster, and documentary filmmaker, known as a world traveler. He authored more than fifty non-fiction books, mostly travel narratives and popular biographies of explorers and military men. Between 1930 and the mid-1970s, Thomas appeared regularly on radio and occasionally on television as a travel and news commentator. Until the 1950s, he was a narrator of Movietone newsreels shown in cinemas.

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Awards & recognition

  • National Aviation Hall of Fame · 1992
  • James Madison Medal · 1980
  • Presidential Medal of Freedom · 1976
  • Peabody Awards · 1973
  • Golden Plate Award · 1970
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  • Horatio Alger Award
  • star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Filmography7 titles

Patton

1970as Self - Movietone News Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Propaganda: Engineering Consent

2018as Self - Writer (archive footage)

Africa Speaks!

1930as Himself (narrator)

The Dick Cavett Show

1968as Self - Guest

The Best of Cinerama

1963as Narrator

This Is Cinerama

1952as Host / Narrator

The Blonde Captive

1931as Self