- He played the chief editor of the "Daily Express" newspaper in The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961) - a job from which he had recently retired in real life.
- During his life, he was described as the greatest editor in the history of London's Fleet Street. This may have been due to his exhorting his reporters: "Always, always tell the news through people." It must have been effective advice, because during his reign over The Daily Express, the paper's circulation increased from well under 2 million to well over over 4 million subscribers.
- He collapsed and died at a television studio in Norwich, England, during rehearsal for a programme he had designed in which current local news would be reported from a country pub.
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