biography
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Steele, Tommy
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originally Thomas Hicks
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| lived:
| (1936– )
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| biography:
| Actor, singer, and director, born in London, UK. He achieved considerable fame as a pop singer in the 1950s and 1960s, made his stage debut in variety at the Empire Theatre, Sunderland in 1956, and in London at the Dominion Theatre in 1957. He played Tony Lumpkin in Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer at the Old Vic in 1960. The archetypal Cockney lad, he continued to appear in musicals during the 1960s, most notably in Half a Sixpence (1963–4). His films include The Tommy Steele Story and Finian's Rainbow. He had his own one-man show in London in 1979, and in 1983 starred in and directed a stage adaptation of Singin' in the Rain at the London Palladium. Later stage appearances include What a Show! (1995). |
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