Charles Osgood Biography (1933-)

Full name, Charles Osgood Wood III; born January 8, 1933, in New York, NY; son of Charles Osgood and Mary F. (maiden name, Wilson) Wood; married second wife Jean Crafton, December 5, 1973; children: (second marriage) Kathleen, Winston, Anne Elizabeth, Emily Jean, James Edward. Addresses: Agent: CBS-TV News Department, 524 West 57th St., New York, NY 10019-2902.

Gender: Male
Occupation: News broadcaster, journalist
Birth Details: January 8, 1933; New York, New York

Famous Works

CREDITS
Television Appearances
Series
Reporter, Universe (also known as Walter Cronkite's Universe), 1980-81
Sunday night anchor, CBS News, CBS, 1981-87
CBS This Morning, CBS, 1987
Host, CBS Sunday Morning, CBS, 1994-
Specials
Host/narrator, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Monsters ... But Were Afraid! (documentary), CBS, 1981
CBS News Special: Lucy, CBS, 1989
Host, The Century That Made America Great, The Disney Channel, 1995
Remember When, PBS, 1995

Radio Reporting
Served as a CBS Radio correspondent, anchoring and writing The OsgoodFile, which is broadcast daily on the CBS Radio Network. Osgood's radio reporting work has also included Newsmark, a weekly CBS Radio public affairs broadcast.
RECORDINGS
Taped Readings
Osgood on Speaking, NewStar Media, Inc., 1997
See You on the Radio, Soundelux, 1999
Also read Charles Osgood--More of See You on the Radio, SoundeluxAudio.
WRITINGS
For Television
(With Walter Cronkite, David Anderson, Ray Brady, Jody Perkins, and Jonathan Ward) Walter Cronkite's Universe (series), CBS, 1980-82
(With Joel Heller) Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Monsters ... But Were Afraid! (documentary; special), CBS, 1981
Other Writings
Nothing Could Be Finer Than a Crisis That Is Minor in the Morning,1979
There's Nothing That I Wouldn't Do If You Would Be My POSSLQ, 1981
Osgood on Speaking, 1988
The Osgood Files, 1991
(Editor) Killroy Was Here: The Best American Humor from World War II, Hyperion, 2001

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals

Broadcasting & Cable, November 13, 2000, p. S18
Saturday Evening Post, July, 2000, p. 26

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