title: Keith Bracey
text: # Keith Bracey
  
  Keith Arthur Bracey (3 May 1916 – 28 October 2010) was a New Zealand television reporter and host who with his goatee beard was one of Television New Zealand's most recognised figures.
  
  ## Background
  
  In 1966 he was the inaugural presenter for New Zealand's first daily current affairs show, Town and Around.
  
  On 28 April 2006 at the age of 90 he was at TVNZ headquarters in Auckland to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Town and Around.
  
  ## Television
  
  Bracey had a fair amount of involvement with the crime fighting series, Police 5 that began in 1976 working as a presenter, producer and researcher for the show. He stayed with it until it was axed in 1986; the cancellation of the show made the front page in the news. There was talk of a replacement show of a similar nature. Also during the early 1980s he was part of a team that included John Hawkesby and Judy Bailey that started up and produced the Auckland regional magazine show Top Half.
  
  During his career, he had an acting role, playing a druid leader on the television series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys in 1998.
  
  ## Personal life
  
  Bracey was married twice and at the time of his death, he was survived by three sons and daughter.
  
  