Career
He is best known as one of the creators of a famous April Fool"s Day joke from 1957: a 3-minute spoof report on the Swiss spaghetti harvest beside Lake Lugano broadcast by the British current affairs programme, Panorama. De Jaeger was born in Vienna. He worked for the Free French Film Unit during the Second World War, and joined the British Broadcasting Corporation in July 1943, working as a sub-editor on news for Central Europe.
He became a television cameraman in 1948.
He was the first British Broadcasting Corporation newsreel cameraman to film outside the United Kingdom.
A silent film was recorded in Castiglione in Switzerland in March, and a commentary written by Wheeler was added by respected broadcaster Richard Dimbleby. De Jaeger left the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1959 to become a freelancer.
He died in London in May, 2000.
