Victor Lewis-Smith was an astute British film, television, and radio producer, TV and restaurant critic, satirist, and newspaper columnist who passed away on December 10, 2022.

He served as the ITV1 Annual National Food & Drink Awards’ executive producer before his untimely passing. Lewis-Smith was also a contributor from June 1993 till his passing to the biweekly journal Private Eye.

Victor Lewis-Smith illness: What disease did Victor Lewis-Smith have?

What actually killed the ace broadcaster has not yet been established by the appropriate authorities. All we can report is that he fell ill with an undisclosed illness from which he died shortly thereafter.

The late Lewis-Smith, who had purchased the rights to the name and logo of the original firm, Associated-Rediffusion, in 1990, owned a film, television, and radio production company called Associated-Rediffusion Productions Limited.

The first of a series of Lewis-Smith documentaries, The Undiscovered Peter Cook, aired on BBC Four in November 2016. Lewis-Smith produced three more documentaries about Peter Sellers, Kenneth Williams, and Tony Hancock for Sky Arts in December 2018.

He served as executive producer for a string of contentious documentaries that Keith Allen broadcast for Channel 4. These featured the lives of Lauren Harries, Michael Carroll, and Nick Griffin.

Source: Ghanafuo.com