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Cyril Nicholas Henty-Dodd (28 July 1935 – 29 August 2009), better known by his stage name Simon Dee, was a British television interviewer and radio disc jockey who hosted a twice-weekly BBC TV chat show, Dee Time, in the late 1960s.
Simon Dee was a popular and influential broadcaster in the UK in the 1960s, hosting the BBC's Dee Time and interviewing celebrities like John Lennon and Sammy Davis Jnr. He later faced career decline and personal troubles, and died of cancer in 2009.
Aug 30, 2009 · In the mid-1960s, Simon Dee, who has died at the age of 74, was one of the biggest stars in the country. But just a few years later, he suffered a sudden and spectacular fall from fame.
Simon Dee was born Cyril Nicholas Henty-Dodd in Manchester in July 1935. His father owned a cotton mill and was reasonably prosperous, but he divorced his wife after finding her in...
Simon Dee, the first presenter on the pirate station Radio Caroline and a major television star in the late 1960s, has died from bone cancer aged 74. He attracted a weekly audience of 18 million for.
- Helen Nugent
Aug 31, 2009 · Simon Dee, the disc jockey who became Britain’s first television superstar and an icon of the radical and licentious culture of the late 1960s, has died aged 74.
Aug 30, 2009 · Simon Dee, who died on August 30 aged 74, was arguably British television's first superstar; he invented the persona of the trendy talk show host and became a cultural icon in...
