Mike Morris(1946-2012)
- Actor
Mike was born in Harrow, Middlesex in June 1946. Educated at St Paul's
School, London, he gained a BA in American and English Literature at
Manchester University before starting his career in journalism with the
Surrey Comet in 1969. He then joined AAP Reuters, a Sydney-based news
agency, as bulletins editor. In 1974 he moved to United Newspapers as a
sports reporter, then sports editor. Mike joined Thames TV as a
sub-editor and reporter in 1979, before joining TV-am in 1983 at its
launch as a sports reporter/presenter and then presenter of the
Saturday edition of Good Morning Britain. He became anchorman of GMB in
1987. After TV-am, Mike went on to become regular presenter of
Yorkshire TV's news magazine programme "Calendar".
