Jimmy Savile Cause Of Death: What Did Jimmy Savile Die Of?

English TV and radio personality, Jimmy Savile, died of pneumonia at age 84.

Savile was found dead at his home in Roundhay on 29 October 2011, two days before his 85th birthday.

He had been in hospital with pneumonia, and his death was not suspicious. His closed satin gold coffin was displayed at the Queen’s Hotel in Leeds, with the last cigar he smoked and his two This Is Your Life books.

Jimmy, who hosted BBC shows including Top of the Pops and Jim’ll Fix It, raised an estimated £40 million for charities during his lifetime.

Savile was widely praised for his personal qualities and as a fund-raiser. After his death, hundreds of allegations of sexual abuse were made against him, leading the police to conclude that he had been a predatory sex offender and possibly one of Britain’s most prolific.

There had been allegations during his lifetime, but they were dismissed and accusers ignored or disbelieved. Savile took legal action against some accusers.

As a teenager during the Second World War, Savile worked in coal mines as a Bevin Boy and reportedly sustained spinal injuries.

He began a career playing records in, and later managing, dance halls, and was said to have been the first disc jockey to use twin turntables to keep music in constant play. In his twenties, he was a professional wrestler, and he continued running marathons until his late seventies.

His media career started as a disc jockey at Radio Luxembourg in 1958 and on Tyne Tees Television in 1960, and he developed a reputation for eccentricity and flamboyance.

At the BBC, he presented the first edition of Top of the Pops in 1964 and broadcast on Radio 1 from 1968. From 1975 until 1994, he presented Jim’ll Fix It, an early Saturday evening television program in which he arranged for the wishes of viewers, mainly children, to come true.