Charles de Jaeger

Not to be confused with Charlie Jaeger.
Charles de Jaeger
Born(1911-02-27)27 February 1911
Vienna, Austria
Died19 May 2000(2000-05-19) (aged 89)
London, England
Known forSpaghetti-tree hoax

Charles Theophile de Jaeger (27 February 1911 – 19 May 2000) was a cameraman for the BBC. He is best known as one of the creators of a famous April Fools' Day joke from 1957: a three-minute spoof report on the Swiss spaghetti harvest beside Lake Lugano broadcast by the British current affairs programme Panorama.

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