- Queen Elizabeth II named him an Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
- In 1968, he became the first US reporter to report from North Vietnam.
- Longtime correspondent for CBS News.
- He was a friend (and, in Mexico, a neighbor) of Richard Burton, who, in the late 1960s, expressed a wish to direct a film version of Collingwood's novel, "The Defector", to star Elizabeth Taylor and Gregory Peck. Burton also planned to play a small cameo role in the film. However, no film of the book was ever made.
- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 171-174. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998.
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