Alan Keith, OBE (born Alexander Kossoff; 19 October 1908 – 17 March 2003) was a British actor, disc jockey and radio presenter, noted for being the longest-serving and eldest presenter on British radio by the time of his death aged 94.
Alexander "Alec" Kossoff was born in Hackney, London, the eldest of three children of Russian-Jewish[1] parents.
[2] He was educated at Dame Alice Owen's School in Islington, and in 1926 he won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he anglicised his name to Alan Keith.
He also acted in films, appearing in Dangerous Moonlight (1941), The World Owes Me a Living (1945), The Long Knife (1958) and Yesterday's Enemy (1959).
However, he fell ill almost immediately afterward, and before long died; his final programme was broadcast 12 days after his death.