René Cutforth (6 February 1909 - 1 April 1984) was a British journalist, television and radio broadcaster and writer.
Reynolds Cutforth was born at Swadlincote, Derbyshire on 6 February 1909,[1] and spent his childhood in Woodville, Burton on Trent, Staffordshire.
During his television broadcast career he wrote and produced several documentary series, including, Bird's Eye View (a televisual study of the British Isles from the air) (1969-1971), and The British Empire - Echoes of Britannia's Rule (1972).
[6] Reviewing one of Cutforth's television programmes entitled The Forties Revisited, the critic Clive James wrote in The Observer: "Cutforth is that rare thing, a front man with background.
"[7] He died in his 76th year at Great Maplestead, in the county of Essex on 1 April 1984.