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Home/People/Mike Read
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Born
Mar 1, 1947
Age 79
Place of Birth
Bury, Lancashire, England, UK
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male

Career Highlights

10
Movies
17
TV Shows
Also Known As
Michael David Kenneth Read
Michael David Kenneth
IMDb Profile

Mike Read

Acting

Biography
Michael David Kenneth Read is an English radio disc jockey, writer, journalist and television presenter. Read has been a broadcaster since 1976, best known for having been a DJ with BBC Radio 1, and television host for music chart series Top of the Pops, children's programme Saturday Superstore and music panel game Pop Quiz. He is also a prolific author, having written over 50 books, including his autobiography, Seize the Day. Read currently hosts The Heritage Chart Show on various radio stations and Talking Pictures TV. He also co-hosts The Footage Detectives with Talking Pictures TV founder Noel Cronin.
George Michael: Got to Have Faith poster

George Michael: Got to Have Faith

as Self
2019
George Michael: Easy to Pretend poster

George Michael: Easy to Pretend

Cast
2019
Britain's Most Dangerous Songs: Listen to the Banned poster

Britain's Most Dangerous Songs: Listen to the Banned

as Himself
2014
When Moyles Met the Radio 1 Breakfast DJs poster

When Moyles Met the Radio 1 Breakfast DJs

as Himself
2010
Trials and Tribulations poster

Trials and Tribulations

as (archive footage)
2008
Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983 poster

Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983

as (archival footage)
2008
It Started with Swap Shop poster

It Started with Swap Shop

as Self
2006
Top of the Pops: The True Story poster

Top of the Pops: The True Story

as Self
2001
Multi-Coloured Saturdays poster

Multi-Coloured Saturdays

Cast
1996
I'm Your Number One Fan poster

I'm Your Number One Fan

as Himself
1996