ABOUT DEREK
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Derek attended Paris and Barcelona Universities, has lived in 8 countries and traveled in 75. He works on-camera from TelePrompTer in French, Italian, German and Castilian Spanish. He was an RAF Officer, an AE in an international ad agency, a CEO, and a consultant to several international companies. He always wanted to be a TV host, but had to wait till 1976 when he was invited to coach international trap and skeet shooters in South Africa and Rhodesia. He met Mike Hart-Jones, head of Rhodesian TV, who hired Derek. Within a year, his live magazine program, 'Frankly Partridge', became Rhodesia's most popular show. Mike wrote to the Board of Directors that Derek's fan mail, from viewers of all races and ages, was unprecedented in his ten years at RTV. Derek was RTV's head news anchor, quiz master of 'The Kwhizz Kids' and presented 'Message to the Nation' specials.
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Columnist and feature writer London Daily Express Investors' Guide
Editor International Television Directory
Articles Screen Actor • Washington Post • Accuracy In Media • Beverly Hills People • ITVA/IVCA Magazines

    Dramalogue • Production Link

His book Thought-Provoking Thoughts About Living was first published in Rhodesia as Frankly Partridge. His pamphlet Rhodesia - As It Really Is was described by London's Daily Telegraph as "a drop of truth in an ocean of lies" and, 10 million copies were distributed in 42 countries. For 3 years, his weekly column Derek Partridge reporting from... appeared in Look and Listen, Rhodesia's TV Guide.
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NAHA 2000 (Hollywood Palladium) • Screen 2000 • Motorola • Toshiba Medical • City of Hope • British Gas    

European Champions Football: VIP galas in Barcelona, Amsterdam, Rome  •  Media Alliance of Orange County

Marbella Film Festival • Madison United Health Care • BOCM • ICI • United Medical • California Sea Lions

50+ functions in Rhodesia
BUSINESS
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CEO Cinema Translation Center Rome • Conservation Tools & Technology UK  • Kick-Eez UK
Consultant Winchester UK • Armi Perazzi Italy • Eley Ammunition UK •Armas Kemen Spain • Nitro Nobel Sweden    Fellow of the British Institute of Directors
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British International Trap Shooting Team at World and European Championships. Gold Medal and World Record at Nordic Games. Gold Medal Grand Prix of Paris. Founder and Chairman of the British International Trap Shooting Federation. Vice Chairman and Life VP of the English Clay Pigeon Shooting Association. Written books and over 100 articles for many US, English and European shooting magazines. As a golfer, he has set no records and considers his handicap to be... himself!
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Derek guest starred in the original Star Trek (below), Murder She Wrote, Remington Steele, Hunter, TJ Hooker and in Dallas as a BBC TV news anchor.  He was almost cast as the next 007 Bond after George Lazenby!  He starred in 3 films: Savage Harvest (left) (20th Century Fox) with Michelle Phillips playing his wife, and Tom Skerritt; The Ivory Ape as the villain, opposite Oscar winner Jack Palance, who played the "good guy!" and in Warner Brothers M.I.A. as an American Colonel. He was featured in films with David Niven and Dirk Bogarde.