Des O'Connor
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Desmond Bernard O'Connor, (born 12 January 1932), is an English comedian, singer, and television presenter.
He was a long time chat show host and the host of the long-running Channel 4 gameshow Countdown for two years.
He has released 36 albums and has had four top ten hits, including a number-one hit with "I Pretend," which has global sales of more than six million dollars.
Early life
Desmond Bernard O'Connor was born in Stepney, East London, on January 12, 1932, to Maude (née Bassett), a cook), and Harry O'Connor, a dustman. His father was of Irish and Jewish descent, and he often joked that he was the first O'Connor to have a bar mitzvah.
In his youth, he had rickets and was later in an automobile crash that required him to have an iron lung for six months. He had a brother, William, and Patricia, a sister, one year his junior. During the Second World War, he was evacuated to Northampton, where he worked in a shoe factory and was a schoolboy and reserve player for Northampton Town.
After completing his national service in the Royal Air Force, he worked as a Redcoat at Butlin's holiday camp in Filey, where he met his first wife Phyllis, and as a shoe salesman at Church's in Northampton, both on the road and in the office, before going into show business. In a Newcastle theatre, prior to his arrival on television, he made his first completely professional stage appearance in variety. Shirley Bassey, the Welsh singer, was invited out on two dates by him later, when he was in Leeds. O'Connor, the show's compère for whom he was paid £100 per week, was on tour in 1958.
He collaborated in songwriting with British singer Sam Browne and Australian pianist and composer Ray Hartley in 1950 and 1952. "Let's Do It Again," "Start Singing A Song," the team performed hit songs. "Yes!Yes!
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"I Like Good Old Melody" and "Why Do I Love You?" "My Baby Told Me She Loves Me" was also created by O'Connor and Hartley.Personal life
O'Connor was married four times:
In episode one of season three of The Good Life, he was also mentioned. In episode eleven of Waiting for God, he was introduced. Also featured in "Sean McLoughlin's 'Sean McLoughlin's Have A Word Podcast #162 (podcast)".
Career
O'Connor appeared at the Glasgow Empire, MGM Grand, Las Vegas, the Opera House, Sydney, and the O'Keefe Centre, Toronto, and made more than one thousand solo appearances at the London Palladium.
In late 2011, O'Connor starred in Dreamboats and Petticoats at the Playhouse Theatre.
In May 2012, O'Connor replaced Russell Grant in the West End musical, The Wizard of Oz, at the London Palladium, as Professor Marvel, Doorman at the Emerald City, Tour Guide, and The Wizard.
In October 2015, O'Connor and Jimmy Tarbuck starred in their own one-off show at the London Palladium to raise money for the new Royal Variety Charity. Due to the success of this show, they toured the country in 2016 from April to October. The venues they visited were (in chronological order), the Southampton Mayflower Theatre, Leeds Grand Theatre, Southend Cliffs Pavilion, Bristol Hippodrome, Bournemouth International Centre, and Milton Keynes Theatre.
In 2017, O'Connor and Tarbuck toured the UK again from May to December. The venues they visited included Theatre Royal, Norwich, Wolverhampton Grand Theatre, Blackpool Opera House, Princess Theatre, Torquay, The Hexagon, Reading, Theatre Royal, Newcastle and Grand Theatre, Swansea.
Until 2019, O'Connor toured theatres around the UK with his one-man show.
O'Connor starred in mainstream television shows in almost every year from 1963 until the 2000s, a feat that only one other television personality has achieved worldwide (U.S. game show host Bob Barker, who hosted mainstream television shows from 1956 until 2007, with 1966–1972 being in syndication).
O'Connor had a successful career as a singer, recording 36 albums, five of which reached the Top 40 of the UK Albums Chart. O'Connor appeared with Morecambe and Wise on several of their Christmas Shows. He worked with many pop stars, including Adam Faith, Shirley Bassey, Barbra Streisand, and Cilla Black. He toured with Buddy Holly (during Holly's 1958 stay in Britain) and Jason Donovan.
He recorded four top 10 singles, including "I Pretend" which topped the UK singles chart in 1968, and "The Skye Boat Song", a 1986 duet with Roger Whittaker.
His singing ability was often parodied on The Morecambe & Wise Show, with O'Connor taking part in the sketches.