Ronald Gordon Honeycombe (27 September 1936 – 9 October 2015) was a British newscaster, author, playwright and stage actor.
Returning to the UK, he embarked on an acting career which led to television and public prominence as a national newscaster with ITN.
Honeycombe joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, working from 1962 to 1964 as an actor at Stratford-upon-Avon and at the Aldwych Theatre, London.
He produced and directed his own play The Redemption for the Festival of Perth in Western Australia, in March 1990, and settled in that area.
[5][6] It was followed by Dragon Under the Hill, where a history professor in Northumberland finds himself re-enacting a tragedy that took place in the Viking era.