David Mahlowe Author & Editor

David Mahlowe, born 1928, actor, and writer, worked in theatre, film, radio and TV. He presented for ABC in the North and Tempo, the first commercial TV arts magazine programme. On Ulster TV's By This I Live in the late 1960s he was a respected interviewer, compared to Malcolm Muggeridge and Bernard Levin in 'the delicate art of TV confrontation'. Literary executor of the artist Eugene Halliday, with whom he had written Shakespeare King Educator, he founded the Melchisedec Press to publish Halliday's writings. A short illness led to his early death in 1998.