Dave Knowles - Mr D The Thermal Cook (London 13 January 1950) is a film director/editor that now has developed his own thermal cookers [1] which are being used worldwide by over two thousand people.
Early Life
editBorn 13.01.1950 Westminster Hospital, London. His Grandmother Francis Lee was on the stage as a trick cyclist troop (The Daimlers) who performed all over the world including the London Palladium and introduced him to the stage at the age of 11.
Television Career
edit1966 – Joined BBC hoping to become a film cameraman but ended up in the accounts dept.
1969 - 1973 – Joined ITN and there worked as an assistant editor on Roving Report ('Roving Reports' was a series of worldwide documentary reports produced by United Press International Television News.
1969 - worked on The moon landing
1970 - worked on the Annapurna helped edit the material shot by an ITN crew that went with Chris Bonningtons expedition to climb Annapurna.
1969 - 1973 worked on day to day material from the Vietnam War as a assistant film editor.
1970 - I was the assistant editor that worked on the footage of the Dawson's Field Hijackings. September 6, 1970 five jet aircraft bound for New York City were hijacked by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of_Palestine. In the incident one hijacker was killed, and one injury was reported on El Al flight 219.) This was an exclusive to ITN [2] through one of UPITN’s [3] stringer cameramen.
1973 Joined Southern Television as an assistant editor.