Robert Wentworth John Holness (12 November 1928 – 6 January 2012)[2] was a British-South African radio and television presenter and occasional actor.

Holness originally joined the station as an airborne traffic reporter, later progressing to reading networked news bulletins for IRN.

[7] Holness hosted Yorkshire Television's big-budget game show flop Raise the Roof, in 1995, before becoming the chairman of a revived Call My Bluff for the BBC.

[8] Aside from presenting, Holness had an occasional acting career in television shows including Thriller, Rex the Runt and The Impressionable Jon Culshaw.

[12] Holness met his wife, former actress Mary Rose Clifford, in repertory theatre in South Africa.

The couple married in 1955 before they returned to England in 1961, originally living with Mary's family in London, before moving to Manchester.

The pair had three children: a son, Jonathan, and two daughters, Carol Ann (aka Nancy Nova) and Ros, singers and members of the band Toto Coelo.