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Roger Climpson (18 October 1931 – 17 September 2025) was a British-born Australian media personality who served a lengthy career in both radio and television, as a journalist and reporter, announcer, News presenter, weather presenter and host. He started his career as an actor in radio, but also appeared in theatre and television productions; post his mainstream media career, he went into Christian broadcasting.
Climpson was a news presenter with both the Nine Network and Seven Network for Seven News in the 1980s and 1990s and hosted shows such as the local version of This Is Your Life and true-crime series Australia's Most Wanted.
He began his television career at its inception in 1956, working at Nine Network as an announcer, weatherman and newsreader. He got the job at Nine after asking his friend Brian Henderson to have a word with the head of the network, Bruce Gyngell. During his time at Nine, he hosted two programs of his own: Rendezvous with Roger and The House and Garden Show.
Climpson left Channel Nine in 1965 after chairman Frank Packer refused to grant him a five-pound pay rise. 50 years of television , Sunday (Nine Network), 25 September 2005. He returned to acting in plays such as The Big Killing (1965) in which Filmink described him as "having the time of his life".
Climpson found himself briefly unemployed and worked at his father's butcher shop, until he was asked to fill a temporary newsreader role at Seven Network – where he stayed for fifteen years.
In 1977 Climpson presented the afternoon shift on Sydney's 2GB.
In 1977, he began hosting This Is Your Life until returning to newsreading in 1978. In 1982, Climpson retired from television work, but returned to the station in 1989 as anchor of Sydney's Seven News, until a diagnosis of prostate cancer in November 1994 forced his temporary retirement. Ann Sanders replaced him the following year.
In 1997, he was host of Australia's Most Wanted, which lasted until 1998 when he retired from television. Post-retirement he briefly returned to host a TV documentary in 2015.
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