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Robert Jolin Osborne was an American film historian, author, actor and the primary television host for the premium cable channel Turner Classic Movies for over twenty years.
Osborne at the 73rd Annual Peabody Awards in 2014
Osborne in 2007
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Turner Classic Movies is an American movie-oriented pay television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. Launched on April 14, 1994, it is headquartered at Turner's Techwood broadcasting campus in
Robert Osborne
…Osborne (; May 3, 1932 – March 6, 2017) was an American film historian, author, actor and the primary television host for the premium cable channel Turner Classic Movies (TCM) for over twenty years. Born in Colfax, Washington, Osborne graduated from the University of Washington's School of Journalism. In 1959, he signed…
In May 2009, host Robert Osborne and Charles Tabesh, senior vice president for programming, accepted Turner Classic Movies' Institutional Peabody Award "for a continuing, powerful commitment to a central concept—the place of film in social and cultural experience".
From left to right: Jacqueline Stewart, Dave Karger, Ben Mankiewicz, Alicia Malone, and Eddie Muller at The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel (April 2024).
Robert Osborne, Mark Cousins and Charles Tabesh in 2014, with the Peabody Award that Turner Classic Movies received for its presentation of The Story of Film: An Odyssey