For nearly 50 years, he was ubiquitous on British television — first as a reporter and then as an imperturbable presenter on Independent Television’s “News at Ten.”

Sandy Gall, a veteran correspondent for Britain’s Independent Television News who covered with calm precision the globe’s major conflicts in the last half of the 20th century, died on Sunday at his home in Penshurst, a village in Kent, England. He was 97.

His death was confirmed by his daughter Carlotta Gall, a reporter for The New York Times.

For nearly 50 years, Mr. Gall’s weary eyes and elongated features were ubiquitous on British television. As a war reporter in Vietnam, Africa and the Middle East, and for more than two decades as an imperturbable presenter on Independent Television’s popular “News at Ten,” he was in all the country’s living rooms.

He covered the aftermath of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas, the Rev. Dr. Martin