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'''Donald David Zec''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE}} (12 March 1919 – 6 September 2021) was a British newspaper journalist and biographer who worked for the ''[[Daily Mirror]]'' in various departments for 40 years.<ref>Bill Hagerty, [http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=28041&sectioncode=1 "Fame that won't live forever"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212223246/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=28041&sectioncode=1 |date=12 February 2012 }}, ''[[Press Gazette]]'', 14 March 2003</ref>
'''Donald David Zec''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE}} (12 March 1919 – 6 September 2021) was a British newspaper journalist and biographer who worked for the ''[[Daily Mirror]]'' in various departments for 40 years.<ref>Hagerty, Bill, [http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=28041&sectioncode=1 "Fame that won't live forever"], ''[[Press Gazette]]'', 14 March 2003. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212223246/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=28041&sectioncode=1 |date=12 February 2012 }}.</ref>


==Biography==
==Biography==
Zec's grandfather was a Jewish refugee from [[Odessa]], in Ukraine. His father Simon Zecanovsky settled in London, shortened the family name to Zec, and raised nine daughters and two sons. He was educated at Upton House Secondary School, Homerton in East London <ref>The Times, obituary, 8 September 2021</ref>
Zec's grandfather was a Jewish refugee from [[Odessa]], in Russian Empire. His father Simon Zecanovsky settled in London, shortened the family name to Zec, and raised nine daughters and two sons. Zec was educated at Upton House Secondary School, Homerton in East London.<ref>The Times, obituary, 8 September 2021</ref>


He was married for 66 years. After his wife Frances died in 2006 he took up painting, mainly with [[acrylic paint]]. In October 2012 he won ''[[The Oldie]]'' magazine's inaugural British Artists Award (OBA) for artists over the age of 60.<ref>[https://www.standard.co.uk/news/londoners-diary/the-oldies-oldie-93yearold-wins-magazines-artist-award-8215074.html "The Oldie's oldie: 93-year-old wins magazine's artist award"], ''London Evening Standard'', 17 October 2012.</ref><ref>[http://www.theoldie.co.uk/oldie-of-the-year-and-oba "2012 OBA – Former Daily Mirror journalist wins first OBA award"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150107184200/http://www.theoldie.co.uk/oldie-of-the-year-and-oba |date=7 January 2015 }}, ''The Oldie''.</ref><ref>[http://www.artslife.com/2012/10/17/93-year-old-donald-zec-wins-oldie-british-artists-award-oba/ "93 year-old Donald Zec Wins Oldie British Artists Award (OBA)]: Oldest Entrant to The Oldie British Artists Award Declared 2012 Winner", ArtsLife, 17 October 2012.</ref> A year later his portrait of his late paternal grandfather (entitled "My Grandfather, the Pious Patriarch") was presented at the [[Royal Academy Summer Exhibition]], jointly winning the [[Hugh Casson]] Prize for Drawing.<ref>Sharon Wheaton, [http://www.fossegallery.com/pdf/art-of-england-aug13.pdf "improvement at Royal Academy"], RA Summer Show, 17 June 2013, p. 20.</ref><ref>245th Summer Exhibition Prizewinners: [http://royal-academy-production-asset.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/4f22b27e-1a39-4510-8608-bda8f3aa2433/RA%20ANNUAL%20REPORT.pdf The Hugh Casson Drawing Prize – "Cat. 626 Donald Zec, My Grandfather, the Pious Patriarch"]. Royal Academy of Arts, Annual Report 2013, Appendix 4, p. 43.</ref>
Zec was married for 66 years. After his wife Frances died in 2006, he took up painting, mainly with [[acrylic paint]]. In October 2012, he won ''[[The Oldie]]'' magazine's inaugural British Artists Award (OBA) for artists over the age of 60.<ref>[https://www.standard.co.uk/news/londoners-diary/the-oldies-oldie-93yearold-wins-magazines-artist-award-8215074.html "The Oldie's oldie: 93-year-old wins magazine's artist award"], ''London Evening Standard'', 17 October 2012.</ref><ref>[http://www.theoldie.co.uk/oldie-of-the-year-and-oba "2012 OBA – Former Daily Mirror journalist wins first OBA award"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150107184200/http://www.theoldie.co.uk/oldie-of-the-year-and-oba |date=7 January 2015 }}, ''The Oldie''.</ref><ref>[http://www.artslife.com/2012/10/17/93-year-old-donald-zec-wins-oldie-british-artists-award-oba/ "93 year-old Donald Zec Wins Oldie British Artists Award (OBA)]: Oldest Entrant to The Oldie British Artists Award Declared 2012 Winner", ArtsLife, 17 October 2012.</ref> A year later, his portrait of his late paternal grandfather (entitled "My Grandfather, the Pious Patriarch") was presented at the [[Royal Academy Summer Exhibition]], jointly winning the [[Hugh Casson]] Prize for Drawing.<ref>Sharon Wheaton, [http://www.fossegallery.com/pdf/art-of-england-aug13.pdf "improvement at Royal Academy"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924014910/http://www.fossegallery.com/pdf/art-of-england-aug13.pdf |date=24 September 2015 }}, RA Summer Show, 17 June 2013, p. 20.</ref><ref>245th Summer Exhibition Prizewinners: [http://royal-academy-production-asset.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/4f22b27e-1a39-4510-8608-bda8f3aa2433/RA%20ANNUAL%20REPORT.pdf The Hugh Casson Drawing Prize – "Cat. 626 Donald Zec, My Grandfather, the Pious Patriarch"]. Royal Academy of Arts, Annual Report 2013, Appendix 4, p. 43.</ref>


==Career==
==Career==
Zec's career in journalism began in 1938 with a three-day trial at the ''[[Daily Mirror]]''. Interviewed by [[Michael Freedland]] in 2009, he recalled: "I was so embarrassingly bad that no one had the courage to tell me, so I stayed for 40 years."<ref name="Freedland09">Michael Freedland [http://www.thejc.com/arts/arts-features/donald-zec-he-scooped-them-all%E2%80%A6 "Donald Zec: He scooped them all..."], ''The Jewish Chronicle'', 26 March 2009. Retrieved 7 January 2015.</ref> During the [[Second World War|war]], he served in the [[London Irish Rifles]], returning to the ''Daily Mirror'' as a crime reporter. On one occasion, he interviewed the acid-bath murderer [[John George Haigh]] in the Onslow Court Hotel. He followed this post by becoming the paper's Royal correspondent, "which I thought was a natural progression", he told Freedland.<ref name="Freedland09"/>
Zec's career in journalism began in 1938 with a three-day trial at the ''[[Daily Mirror]]''. Interviewed by [[Michael Freedland]] in 2009, he recalled: "I was so embarrassingly bad that no one had the courage to tell me, so I stayed for 40 years."<ref name="Freedland09">Michael Freedland [http://www.thejc.com/arts/arts-features/donald-zec-he-scooped-them-all%E2%80%A6 "Donald Zec: He scooped them all..."], ''The Jewish Chronicle'', 26 March 2009. Retrieved 7 January 2015.</ref> During the [[Second World War|war]], he served in the [[London Irish Rifles]], returning to the ''Daily Mirror'' as a crime reporter. On one occasion, he interviewed the acid-bath murderer [[John George Haigh]] in the Onslow Court Hotel. He followed this post by becoming the paper's Royal correspondent, "which I thought was a natural progression", he told Freedland.<ref name="Freedland09"/>


Later, he became a journalist writing about film. In the course of his work he interviewed and wrote about many celebrities from the entertainment industry,<ref>[http://www.thejc.com/galleries/photojournalism/donald-zecs-celebrity-scrapbook?img=1 "Donld Zec's Celebrity Scrapbook", ''The Jewish Chronicle Online'', 24 March 2009.]</ref> including [[Humphrey Bogart]], [[Brigitte Bardot]], [[David Niven]], [[Ingrid Bergman]], [[The Beatles]], and [[Marilyn Monroe]].<ref>[http://blog.everlasting-star.net/2012/02/books/donald-zec-and-marilyn/ "Donald Zec and Marilyn"], EverlastingStar.net, 1 February 2012.</ref>
Later, he became a journalist writing about film. In the course of his work he interviewed and wrote about many celebrities from the entertainment industry,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thejc.com/galleries/photojournalism/donald-zecs-celebrity-scrapbook?img=1 |title=Donald Zec's celebrity scrapbook |work=The Jewish Chronicle Online |date=24 March 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141210235757/http://www.thejc.com/galleries/photojournalism/donald-zecs-celebrity-scrapbook?img=1 |archive-date=10 December 2014}}</ref> including [[Humphrey Bogart]], [[Brigitte Bardot]], [[David Niven]], [[Ingrid Bergman]], [[The Beatles]], and [[Marilyn Monroe]].<ref>[http://blog.everlasting-star.net/2012/02/books/donald-zec-and-marilyn/ "Donald Zec and Marilyn"], EverlastingStar.net, 1 February 2012.</ref>


In October 1967, he won a National Press Award as Descriptive Writer of the year, the citation spoke of his "bland outrageousness and a deadly certainty of aim". Extending his range, he interviewed major political figures such as a former Chancellor of the Exchequer [[Selwyn Lloyd]], the Labour Prime Minister [[Harold Wilson]], the (then) leader of the Opposition [[Margaret Thatcher]], [[Lord Mountbatten of Burma]] and the former Californian Governor [[Ronald Reagan]] in 1967, commenting: "it is a whimsical if not uneasy thought that an ex-movie star of many films that escape instant recollection could one day become President of the United States of America". In 1970, Zec was awarded the [[Order of the British Empire]] (OBE) for services to Journalism.<ref name="Guardian obituary">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/sep/09/donald-zec-obituary|title=Donald Zec obituary|first=Geoffrey|last=Goodman|author2=Matthew Engel|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=9 September 2021}}</ref>
In October 1967, he won a National Press Award as Descriptive Writer of the year, the citation spoke of his "bland outrageousness and a deadly certainty of aim". Extending his range, he interviewed major political figures such as a former Chancellor of the Exchequer [[Selwyn Lloyd]], the Labour Prime Minister [[Harold Wilson]], the (then) leader of the Opposition [[Margaret Thatcher]], [[Lord Mountbatten of Burma]] and the former Californian Governor [[Ronald Reagan]] in 1967, commenting: "it is a whimsical if not uneasy thought that an ex-movie star of many films that escape instant recollection could one day become President of the United States of America". In 1970, Zec was awarded the [[Order of the British Empire]] (OBE) for services to Journalism.<ref name="Guardian obituary">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/sep/09/donald-zec-obituary|title=Donald Zec obituary|first=Geoffrey|last=Goodman|author2=Matthew Engel|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=9 September 2021}}</ref>


The many books Zec wrote include biographies of the [[Queen Mother]],<ref>[https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/656708362.html?dids=656708362:656708362&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Jul+22%2C+1973&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=ON+VIEW&pqatl=google "Beautiful Snob"], ''Los Angeles Times'', 22 July 1973.</ref> [[Sophia Loren]], [[Barbra Streisand]], [[Elizabeth Taylor]] and [[Lee Marvin]]. Zec's biography of his brother, the [[political cartoonist]] [[Philip Zec]], entitled ''Don't Lose It Again! The Life and Wartime Cartoons of Philip Zec'', was published in 2005.<ref>[http://www.historytoday.com/donald-zec/dont-lose-it-again "Don't Lose it Again!" (extract)], ''History Today'', 18 May 2005.</ref><ref>[http://ww2poster.co.uk/2010/06/donald-zec-don%E2%80%99t-lose-it-again-the-life-and-war-time-cartoons-of-philip-zec-2005/ Review by Dr Bex Lewis (2005–6)] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117044430/http://ww2poster.co.uk/2010/06/donald-zec-don%E2%80%99t-lose-it-again-the-life-and-war-time-cartoons-of-philip-zec-2005/ |date=17 January 2013 }}</ref>
The many books Zec wrote include biographies of [[the Queen Mother]],<ref>[https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/656708362.html?dids=656708362:656708362&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Jul+22%2C+1973&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=ON+VIEW&pqatl=google "Beautiful Snob"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018034355/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/656708362.html?dids=656708362:656708362&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Jul+22,+1973&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=ON+VIEW&pqatl=google |date=18 October 2012 }}, ''Los Angeles Times'', 22 July 1973.</ref> [[Sophia Loren]], [[Barbra Streisand]], [[Elizabeth Taylor]] and [[Lee Marvin]]. Zec's biography of his brother, the [[political cartoonist]] [[Philip Zec]], entitled ''Don't Lose It Again! The Life and Wartime Cartoons of Philip Zec'', was published in 2005.<ref>[http://www.historytoday.com/donald-zec/dont-lose-it-again "Don't Lose it Again!" (extract)], ''History Today'', 18 May 2005.</ref><ref>[http://ww2poster.co.uk/2010/06/donald-zec-don%E2%80%99t-lose-it-again-the-life-and-war-time-cartoons-of-philip-zec-2005/ Review by Dr Bex Lewis (2005–6)] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117044430/http://ww2poster.co.uk/2010/06/donald-zec-don%E2%80%99t-lose-it-again-the-life-and-war-time-cartoons-of-philip-zec-2005/ |date=17 January 2013 }}</ref>


Zec died in September 2021, at the age of 102.<ref name="Guardian obituary" /><ref>{{cite news|title=Donald Zec, legendary showbiz correspondent and chum to stars including Marilyn Monroe, Liz Taylor and the Beatles – obituary|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2021/09/06/donald-zec-legendary-showbiz-correspondent-chum-stars-including/|work=The Telegraph|date=6 September 2021}} {{paywall}}</ref>
Zec died in September 2021, at the age of 102.<ref name="Guardian obituary" /><ref>{{cite news|title=Donald Zec, legendary showbiz correspondent and chum to stars including Marilyn Monroe, Liz Taylor and the Beatles – obituary|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2021/09/06/donald-zec-legendary-showbiz-correspondent-chum-stars-including/|work=The Telegraph|date=6 September 2021}} {{subscription required}}</ref>


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Latest revision as of 01:49, 9 December 2024

Donald Zec
OBE
Born
Donald David Zec

(1919-03-12)12 March 1919[1]
London, England
Died6 September 2021(2021-09-06) (aged 102)
England
Occupation(s)Journalist and biographer
Known forDaily Mirror

Donald David Zec OBE (12 March 1919 – 6 September 2021) was a British newspaper journalist and biographer who worked for the Daily Mirror in various departments for 40 years.[2]

Biography

[edit]

Zec's grandfather was a Jewish refugee from Odessa, in Russian Empire. His father Simon Zecanovsky settled in London, shortened the family name to Zec, and raised nine daughters and two sons. Zec was educated at Upton House Secondary School, Homerton in East London.[3]

Zec was married for 66 years. After his wife Frances died in 2006, he took up painting, mainly with acrylic paint. In October 2012, he won The Oldie magazine's inaugural British Artists Award (OBA) for artists over the age of 60.[4][5][6] A year later, his portrait of his late paternal grandfather (entitled "My Grandfather, the Pious Patriarch") was presented at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, jointly winning the Hugh Casson Prize for Drawing.[7][8]

Career

[edit]

Zec's career in journalism began in 1938 with a three-day trial at the Daily Mirror. Interviewed by Michael Freedland in 2009, he recalled: "I was so embarrassingly bad that no one had the courage to tell me, so I stayed for 40 years."[9] During the war, he served in the London Irish Rifles, returning to the Daily Mirror as a crime reporter. On one occasion, he interviewed the acid-bath murderer John George Haigh in the Onslow Court Hotel. He followed this post by becoming the paper's Royal correspondent, "which I thought was a natural progression", he told Freedland.[9]

Later, he became a journalist writing about film. In the course of his work he interviewed and wrote about many celebrities from the entertainment industry,[10] including Humphrey Bogart, Brigitte Bardot, David Niven, Ingrid Bergman, The Beatles, and Marilyn Monroe.[11]

In October 1967, he won a National Press Award as Descriptive Writer of the year, the citation spoke of his "bland outrageousness and a deadly certainty of aim". Extending his range, he interviewed major political figures such as a former Chancellor of the Exchequer Selwyn Lloyd, the Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson, the (then) leader of the Opposition Margaret Thatcher, Lord Mountbatten of Burma and the former Californian Governor Ronald Reagan in 1967, commenting: "it is a whimsical if not uneasy thought that an ex-movie star of many films that escape instant recollection could one day become President of the United States of America". In 1970, Zec was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to Journalism.[12]

The many books Zec wrote include biographies of the Queen Mother,[13] Sophia Loren, Barbra Streisand, Elizabeth Taylor and Lee Marvin. Zec's biography of his brother, the political cartoonist Philip Zec, entitled Don't Lose It Again! The Life and Wartime Cartoons of Philip Zec, was published in 2005.[14][15]

Zec died in September 2021, at the age of 102.[12][16]

Bibliography

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  • Barbra: A Biography of Barbra Streisand (with Anthony Fowles). London: Hodder, 1982; ISBN 0-450-05398-9 (softcover) / ISBN 0-450-04857-8 (hardcover). New York: St Martin's Press, 1981; ISBN 0-312-06638-4
  • The Colonel – a novel. London: Virgin Books, 1980; ISBN 0-352-30537-1 (softcover). W. H. Allen; ISBN 0-491-02376-6 (hardcover)
  • The Deal. London: Hodder, 1980; ISBN 0-450-04411-4 (softcover) / ISBN 0-450-04030-5 (hardcover)
  • Don't Lose It Again! The Life and Wartime Cartoons of Philip Zec. London: Political Cartoon Society, 2005; ISBN 0-9549008-1-2
  • The Face. London: Political Cartoon Society, 1981; ISBN 0-450-04752-0 (hardcover)/ ISBN 0-450-05226-5 (softcover)
  • Liz: The Men, the Myths, and the Miracle – An Intimate Portrait of Elizabeth Taylor. Bookman Projects, 1982; ISBN 0-85939-316-X
  • Marvin: The Story of Lee Marvin. London: Hodder, 1980; ISBN 0-450-04115-8. New York: St Martin's Press; ISBN 0-312-51780-7
  • Put the Knife in Gently: Memoirs of a Life with Legends. London: Anova Books, 2003; ISBN 1-86105-697-4
  • The Queen Mother: With Unique Recollections by the Earl Mountbatten of Burma. Thorndike Press, 1990: ISBN 0-86220-417-8
  • Sophia: An Intimate Biography. London: W. H. Allen, 1975; ISBN 0-491-01732-4. G.K. Hall; ISBN 0-8161-6379-0
  • Some Enchanted Egos: Decent Exposures of Some of the Most Celebrated Characters of Our Time. London: Allison & Busby, 1972; ISBN 0-85031-078-4
  • This Show Business, Donald Zec on. London: Daily Mirror, 1959.
  • When the Snow Melts: The Autobiography of Cubby Broccoli (with Albert R. Broccoli). London: PanMacmillan, 1999; ISBN 0-7522-1162-5 (hardcover) / ISBN 0-7522-1704-6 (softcover)

References

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  1. ^ Noble, Peter (1970). British film and television year book. Cinema TV Today. p. 394.
  2. ^ Hagerty, Bill, "Fame that won't live forever", Press Gazette, 14 March 2003. Archived 12 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ^ The Times, obituary, 8 September 2021
  4. ^ "The Oldie's oldie: 93-year-old wins magazine's artist award", London Evening Standard, 17 October 2012.
  5. ^ "2012 OBA – Former Daily Mirror journalist wins first OBA award" Archived 7 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine, The Oldie.
  6. ^ "93 year-old Donald Zec Wins Oldie British Artists Award (OBA): Oldest Entrant to The Oldie British Artists Award Declared 2012 Winner", ArtsLife, 17 October 2012.
  7. ^ Sharon Wheaton, "improvement at Royal Academy" Archived 24 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine, RA Summer Show, 17 June 2013, p. 20.
  8. ^ 245th Summer Exhibition Prizewinners: The Hugh Casson Drawing Prize – "Cat. 626 Donald Zec, My Grandfather, the Pious Patriarch". Royal Academy of Arts, Annual Report 2013, Appendix 4, p. 43.
  9. ^ a b Michael Freedland "Donald Zec: He scooped them all...", The Jewish Chronicle, 26 March 2009. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
  10. ^ "Donald Zec's celebrity scrapbook". The Jewish Chronicle Online. 24 March 2009. Archived from the original on 10 December 2014.
  11. ^ "Donald Zec and Marilyn", EverlastingStar.net, 1 February 2012.
  12. ^ a b Goodman, Geoffrey; Matthew Engel (9 September 2021). "Donald Zec obituary". The Guardian.
  13. ^ "Beautiful Snob" Archived 18 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 1973.
  14. ^ "Don't Lose it Again!" (extract), History Today, 18 May 2005.
  15. ^ Review by Dr Bex Lewis (2005–6) Archived 17 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  16. ^ "Donald Zec, legendary showbiz correspondent and chum to stars including Marilyn Monroe, Liz Taylor and the Beatles – obituary". The Telegraph. 6 September 2021. (subscription required)
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