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- Birth nameIvor Lewis Emmanuel
- Ivor Emmanuel was born on November 7, 1927 in Margam, Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, Wales, UK. He was an actor, known for Zoulou (1964), Plain and Fancy (1956) and Secombe and Friends (1959). He was married to Malinee Oppenborn, Patricia Bredin and Jean Beazleigh. He died on July 19, 2007 in Malaga, Spain.
- SpousesMalinee Oppenborn(1967 - July 20, 2007) (his death, 1 child)Patricia Bredin(1964 - 1966) (divorced)Jean Beazleigh(1951 - 1963) (divorced, 2 children)
- 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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