Mike Willesee's spellbinding spiritual quest around the world and deep into the heart of life's ultimate riddle.
Mike Willesee was born in Perth in 1942. He got his start as a
journalist at Perth's Daily News before moving to the Melbourne Age
in 1963. Mike joined Australia's first nightly prime-time current
affairs show, This Day Tonight, before hosting the ABC's Four
Corners. In between, he reported the Vietnam War from 1967 to
1971.
Mike created and presented A Current Affair for the Nine network
(1971-73), then hosted The Mike Willesee Show and Willesee at 7 for
Channels 10 and 7. In the '80s, he drew record ratings for his
documentaries Quentin and The Hunting Party, while pioneering FM
radio with the 2Day FM licence.
In 1988, Mike led a consortium to save the Sydney Swans, and then
served as president until 1993. He then went on to make the
documentary films The Last Warriors and Signs From God, the latter
drawing 28 million viewers in the United States. In 2012, a decade
after being inducted into the Logies Hall of Fame, Mike joined
Channel 7's Sunday Night and reclaimed his place as Australia's
pre-eminent interviewer.
Mike Willesee, the voice of Australian television for decades, was
diagnosed with throat cancer in 2016. In 2017, he released his
autobiography, Memoirs. He passed away in early 2019.
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