Jack Pizzey (television)

Jack Pizzey is a British television documentary-maker and presenter and author.

Pizzey was born in Sussex, UK. He attended "St Christophers Preparatory School for the Public Schools and the Royal Navy" and then Hove Grammar School until, at sixteen, he joined the navy. His main sports were boxing and swimming.

He served in the Royal Navy, starting as a Dartmouth cadet at 16 and retiring as a lieutenant at 27. He was mainly in submarines: HMS Tally-Ho and Thermopylae in the Mediterranean, HMS Talent in home waters and HMS Andrew in the Far East, as Torpedo Officer and Navigator. In the cruiser HMS Newcastle (a sister ship to HMS Belfast which is now a floating museum across the Thames from the Tower of London) he toured the Far East with a front row seat at the end of the British Empire, watching the Union Jack being hauled down in various newly independent colonies which he returned to twenty years later as a documentary-maker.

From the RN, Pizzey joined the BBC as a General Trainee and, after a spell as co-anchor of the new BBC Radio flagship The World at One, he moved to television and joined the also new and top-rating BBC1 TV show Nationwide as a roving reporter. After three years he moved into full-length documentaries with BBC2's Man Alive. There he presented some fifty documentaries on subjects ranging from the Tour de France to King Juan Carlos of Spain and King Hussein of Jordan, and a ghetto hospital in Chicago I call it murder.

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