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2 de abr. de 2008 · Hughie Green, Most Sincerely. Hughie Green was the avuncular front man of the hugely successful family television shows Opportunity Knocks and Double Your Money. But...
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Green was born in Marylebone, London, to a Scottish father, Hugh Aitchison Green, a former British Army officer from Glasgow who made his fortune supplying canned fish to the Allied forces in the First World War, and an English mother, Violet Elenore (née Price), from Surrey, the daughter of an Irish gardener. The family had a home in Meopham, Kent...
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After the family business went bankrupt, Green's father encouraged his stage-obsessed son into performance, and by the age of 14 Hughie Green had his own BBC Radio show and created and toured with his own all-children cast concert party called "Hughie Green and his Gang". After an extensive tour of Canada, in 1935 Green appeared in his first film, Midshipman Easy, then went to Hollywood, California, where he appeared in the film Tom Brown's School Days and at the Cocoanut Grove with his cabar...
Second World War
Having already fathered his first illegitimate child (Barry Hands) with Vera Hands, a Birmingham usherette, at the age of 17 and having been caught in North America on the declaration of war, during the Second World War Green served as a pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force, ferrying aircraft across the Atlantic with RAF Ferry Command. In 1942, he married Montreal society beauty Claire Wilson, and went on to work in the aircraft industry as a ferrytransport pilot and stunt pilot. From 1947,...
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In 1949, Green devised a talent show called Opportunity Knocks, which was commissioned by BBC Radio. The show lasted for only one series, and Green was apparently told it was "too American" for the British audience. After the show was cancelled, Green sued the BBC, Carroll Levis, and six friends and family of Levis, alleging a conspiracy to keep his Opportunity Knocks show off the air to preserve Levis's rival show, Discoveries. The case came to trial at the High Court in May 1955, with Green...
Green was often mocked for his permanent door-to-door salesman's smile and Canadian accent. His catchphrase "I mean that most sincerely" was also mocked, to such an extent that it is sometimes mistakenly believed to have been invented by the impressionist Mike Yarwood, who was known for his impersonation of Green. In a 1992 TV interview, Green told...
Green made a number of recordings. As a solo act he released singles on the Parlophone, Decca, Columbia, EMI and Philips labels. He also recorded an album, Songs For Children which was released on York RecordsMYK 601 in 1971.
Green met Montreal socialite Claire Wilson on a cruise liner in the mid-1930s when both were still teenagers. They married in 1942 and settled in Montreal, before moving to London in 1947. The couple had two children, son Christopher Green and daughter Linda Plentl (née Green). The family lived in a fifth-floor flat in Baker Street, London, althoug...
In 1983, Green sued the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation, claiming its 1975–78 version of Opportunity Knocks infringed his copyright. He lost and in 1989 the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council rejected his appeal,leaving him a £250,000 legal bill. Green lived out his life away from the media in solitude, confined to his Baker Street flat a...
In light of the death in 2000 of his daughter Paula Yates, his son Christopher Green, now a Canadian resident, wrote the biographical perspective Hughie and Paula: The Tangled Lives of Hughie Green and Paula Yates. On 2 April 2008 a TV film about Green's life was broadcast on BBC Four. In the film, entitled Hughie Green, Most Sincerely, Trevor Eve ...
Hughie and Paula: The Tangled Lives of Hughie Green and Paula Yates, by Christopher Green ISBN 1-86105-609-5John Holmstrom, The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995, Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, p. 96–97.Hughie Green discography at DiscogsHughie Green at IMDb2 de abr. de 2008 · Hughie Green, Most Sincerely: Directed by Daniel Percival. With Trevor Eve, Jack Armstrong, Ian Cairns, Victoria Pugh. In 1934 Hughie Green, a nervous 14-year-old performer, is pushed onto a stage in his native Canada.
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Next week, the story of the notorious, bullying, sex-obsessed entertainer will be told as part of a BBC series on comedy legends, in Hughie Green, Most Sincerely, with actor Trevor Eve portraying...
Drama about the secret life of Opportunity Knocks and Double Your Money presenter Hughie Green, based on the inside story from his family, friends and peers.
Summaries. In 1934 Hughie Green, a nervous 14-year-old performer, is pushed onto a stage in his native Canada. Twenty-four years later he is a big name in British television as the quiz-master of the popular game show 'Double Your Money'. Whilst on a stage tour with the show he meets a former show business acquaintance, Jess Yates, now running ...
2 ★★★★ ratings (14%) ★★★★★. Drama about the secret life of Opportunity Knocks and Double Your Money presenter Hughie Green, based on the inside story from his family, friends and peers.
