- Geboren am
- Verstorben19. Juli 2007 · Malaga, Spanien (Schlaganfall)
- GeburtsnameIvor Lewis Emmanuel
- Ivor Emmanuel wurde am 7 November 1927 in Margam, Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, Wales, UK geboren. Er war Schauspieler, bekannt für Zulu - Die Schlacht von Rorke's Drift (1964), Plain and Fancy (1956) und Secombe and Friends (1959). Er war mit Malinee Oppenborn, Patricia Bredin und Jean Beazleigh verheiratet. Er starb am 19 Juli 2007 in Spanien.
- EhepartnerMalinee Oppenborn(1967 - 20. Juli 2007) (er verstorben, 1 Kind)Patricia Bredin(1964 - 1966) (geschieden)Jean Beazleigh(1951 - 1963) (geschieden, 2 Kinder)
- When he was just 14 his father and mother, sister and grandfather, were killed by a stray German bomb that hit his home village.
- Virile Welsh singer who worked as a coal miner as a teen before singing. Appeared in such productions as "South Pacific", "The King and I", "Finian's Rainbow" and "Damn Yankees" in the 1950s. Made his Broadway debut in a short-lived musical version of "How Green Way My Valley" entitled "A Time for Singing" in 1966.
- He used to carry a wind-up gramophone up mountains near his home village to listen to records of Enrico Caruso.
- A one-time member of the Pontrhydyfen Operatic Society, he was eventually hired by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company as a chorister in March 1950, staying until August 1951 when he married fellow D'Oyly Carte chorister Jean Beazleigh. He later co-headlined in a TV series, the musical program "Land of Song", from 1958-1965 with Sian Phillips. He retired to Spain in the late 1960s.
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