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Birth name
  
Thomas William Hicks

Name
  
Tommy Steele

Occupation(s)
  
Singer, actor

Role
  
Rock star

Instruments
  
Guitar, banjo

Spouse
  
Ann Donoghue (m. 1960)

Years active
  
1956–present


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Born
  
17 December 1936 (age 87) Bermondsey, London, England (
1936-12-17
)

Genres
  
Siblings
  
Ron Hicks, Betty Hicks, Rodney Hicks, Colin Hicks, Sandra Hicks

Movies
  
Half a Sixpence, Finian's Rainbow, The Happiest Millionaire, The Tommy Steele St, Quincy's Quest

Tommy Steele - Singing the Blues


Tommy Steele OBE (born Thomas William Hicks, 17 December 1936) and better known as Tommy Steele is an English entertainer, regarded as Britain's first teen idol and rock and roll star. He reached number one with "Singing the Blues" in 1957, and The Tommy Steele Story was the first album by a UK act to reach number one.

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Steele's film credits include Half a Sixpence, The Happiest Millionaire and Finian's Rainbow, and he has made many stage tours in the UK. He is also a songwriter, author and sculptor. His claim to have shown Elvis Presley around London has been challenged by more than one source.

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In 2012, Steele was among the British cultural icons selected by artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork – the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover – to celebrate the British cultural figures of the last six decades.

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Singer

Steele worked in various jobs, including a brief period as a merchant seaman. He was not eligible for national service because, at eighteen years old, he was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy. In his autobiography, Bermondsey Boy: Memories of a Forgotten World, he reports that he failed the medical because he had flat feet. Whenever not working, he played guitar and banjo and sang in two coffee houses in Soho, the 2i's Coffee Bar and the Cat's Whisker, both as a solo performer and with Wally Whyton's Vipers Skiffle Group.

When a ship Steele was serving on docked in Norfolk, Virginia, USA, he heard Buddy Holly and fell in love with rock and roll, turning his back on the British skiffle craze. He was discovered by freelance photographer John Kennedy, who believed Steele could be Britain's answer to Elvis Presley. Later co-manager Larry Parnes was incorrectly credited with creating the stage name 'Tommy Steele'. It was Steele who adapted the surname of his Scandinavian paternal grandfather, Thomas Stil-Hicks (pronounced Steel-Hicks), adding another E to the spelling.

Steele became famous in the UK as the frontman for a rock and roll band, the Steelmen, after their first single, "Rock With the Caveman", reached number 13 in the UK Singles Chart in 1956. Steele and other British singers would pick known hit records from the United States, record their cover versions of these songs, and release them in the UK before the American versions could enter the charts. Most of Steele's 1950s recordings were covers of American hits, such as "Singing the Blues" and "Knee Deep in the Blues". Although Steele never proved a serious threat to Presley's popularity in the UK, he did well on the 1950s UK chart and "Singing the Blues" got to Number 1 in the UK before Presley did so. Guy Mitchell was number 1 with "Singing the Blues" on 4 January 1957 and Tommy Steele on 11 January 1957. Steele's 1957 album, The Tommy Steele Story, was the first by a UK-based act to reach No. 1 in the UK.

Only four months after his first chart presence, he was filming his life story. To do so, Steele and his songwriting collaborators, Lionel Bart and Mike Pratt, wrote twelve songs in seven days. His first three single releases were issued at a rate of one every three weeks. In 1957 Steele bought a four-bedroomed house in South London for his parents. In August 1959, Steele undertook a three-day concert visit to Moscow.

In late 2009 his greatest hits collection, The Very Best of Tommy Steele, reached the Top 40 in the UK Albums Chart. This was the first UK chart entry, of any kind, that Steele had enjoyed for over 48 years.

Actor

The increase in home-grown musical talent during the 1950s and 60s allowed Steele to progress to a career in stage and film musicals, leaving behind his pop idol identity. In 1957 he was voted the seventh most popular actor at the British box office.

In 1960, a tour of Australia had not been particularly successful and on his return to England he received two offers, one to star in the play Billy Liar, the other to join the Old Vic Company. He chose the latter.

In the West End he appeared in She Stoops to Conquer and played the title role of Hans Christian Andersen. On film, he recreated his London and Broadway stage role in Half a Sixpence, and played character roles in The Happiest Millionaire and Finian's Rainbow, although many critics found his personality to be somewhat overwhelming on screen. In this latter film, probably his best known appearance in the films, he played Og, the leprechaun turning human, and co-starred with Petula Clark and Fred Astaire. In 1968 British exhibitors voted him the fourth most popular star at the local box office.

In April 1971, Steele starred in his own show Meet Me in London at London's Adelphi Theatre.

In 1978, Steele performed in a TV movie version of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Yeomen of the Guard (misspelled as "The Yeoman..."), singing the role of the hapless jester Jack Point.

In 1983, Steele directed and starred in the West End stage production of Singin' in the Rain at the London Palladium. In 1991 he toured with Some Like It Hot the stage version of the Jack Lemmon/Tony Curtis/Marilyn Monroe film. In 2003, after a decade-long hiatus, save his one-man shows An Evening With Tommy Steele and What A Show!, he toured as Ebenezer Scrooge in a production of Scrooge: The Musical, an adaptation of Scrooge. Following this return, he reprised his role at the Palace Theatre, Manchester over Christmas 2004, and brought the production to the London Palladium for Christmas 2005. In 2008, at the age of 71, Steele toured in the lead role of the stage musical Doctor Dolittle, and has reprised his role as Scrooge every Christmas season since 2009.

He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1958 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the BBC Television Theatre.

Sculptor

Steele is a respected sculptor and three of his major works have been on public display: Bermondsey Boy at the Rotherhithe Town Hall in London (stolen in 1998, current whereabouts unknown) and Eleanor Rigby which he sculpted and donated to the City of Liverpool as a tribute to the Beatles. The statue stands in Stanley Street, Liverpool, not far from the Cavern Club. Steele has another sculpture featuring two rugby players on display at Twickenham Stadium. He is also an artist of some note and has exhibited at the Royal Academy.

Personal life and other talents

Steele was born in Bermondsey, London. He married Ann Donoghue at St. Patrick's Church, Soho Square, London, in 1960. They have one daughter, Emma.

In the early 1980s, Steele wrote and published a novel titled The Final Run about World War II and the evacuation of Dunkirk.

He also wrote a children's novel, entitled Quincy, about a reject toy trying to save himself and his fellow rejects in the basement of a toy store from the furnace the day after Christmas. This was turned into the television film, Quincy's Quest, in 1979, in which Steele played Quincy and Mel Martin played Quincy's girlfriend doll, Rebecca.

Steele is mentioned briefly in Ian Fleming's James Bond novel Thunderball.

Steele's autobiography was published in September 2006 and is entitled Bermondsey Boy: Memories of a Forgotten World (London: Joseph) ISBN 0-7181-4972-6.

Steele co-wrote many of his early songs with Lionel Bart and Mike Pratt, but he used the pseudonym of Jimmy Bennett from 1958 onwards.

Claimed meeting with Elvis Presley in Britain

For many years it was thought that Elvis Presley had never set foot in Britain, apart from spending a few minutes on the tarmac at Prestwick Airport in Scotland where his military plane, en route to the United States after completing his army service in West Germany, stopped to refuel. However, on 21 April 2008, in a BBC Radio 2 interview with theatre impresario Bill Kenwright, it was claimed that Presley, then 23, had visited Britain for a day, after a phone conversation with Steele in London in 1958.

According to Kenwright: "Elvis flew in for a day and Tommy showed him round London. He showed him the Houses of Parliament and spent the day with him". Kenwright admitted on 22 April 2008 that he was not sure whether he should have told the story. Steele said: "It was two young men sharing the same love of their music. I swore never to divulge publicly what took place and I regret that it has found some way of getting into the light. I only hope he can forgive me."

Press officers employed by Stagecoach, the company that owns Prestwick Airport, rapidly issued a statement requesting proof, photographic or otherwise, of the said meeting. Until such proof is provided, they will continue to describe their property, Prestwick Airport, as being the only place in Britain where Elvis Presley ever set foot and will not be removing the marker, photographs and special lounge at their airport which relate to their claim.

Lamar Fike, a former member of the Memphis Mafia, who lived with Presley at the time, has posted a claim that it was he, not Presley, who visited London and Steele for a day in 1958.

Discography

Partial discography:

Singles

With the Steelmen

  • "Rock With the Caveman" / "Rock Around the Town" – UK No. 13 (Decca 1956)
  • "Doomsday Rock" / "Elevator Rock" – (Decca 1956)
  • "Singing the Blues" / "Rebel Rock" – UK No. 1 (Decca 1956)
  • "Knee Deep in the Blues" / "Teenage Party" – UK No. 15 (Decca 1957)
  • "Butterfingers" / "Cannibal Pot" – UK No. 8 (Decca 1957)
  • "Water, Water" / "A Handful of Songs" – UK No. 5 (Decca 1957) with lyrics partially based on The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  • "Shiralee" / "Grandad's Rock" – UK No. 11 (Decca 1957)
  • "Hey You!" / "Plant a Kiss" – UK No. 28 (Decca 1957)
  • "Happy Guitar" / "Princess" – UK No. 20 (Decca 1958)
  • "Nairobi" / "Neon Sign" – UK No. 3 (Decca 1958)
  • "The Only Man on the Island" / "I Puts the Lightie On" – UK No. 16 (Decca 1958)
  • Solo

  • "It's All Happening" / "What Do You Do?" – (Decca 1958 )
  • "Come On, Let's Go" / "Put a Ring on Her Finger" – UK No. 10 (Decca 1958)
  • "A Lovely Night" / "Marriage Type Love" – (Decca 1958)
  • "Hiawatha" / "The Trial" – (Decca 1959)
  • "Tallahassee Lassie" / "Give! Give! Give!" – UK No. 16 (Decca 1959)
  • "Give! Give! Give!" – UK No. 28 (Decca 1959)
  • "You Were Mine" / "Young Ideas" – (Decca 1959)
  • "Little White Bull" / "Singing Time" – UK No. 6 (Decca 1959)
  • "What a Mouth (What a North and South)" / "Kookaburra" – UK No. 5 (Decca 1960)
  • "Happy Go Lucky Blues" / "Girl with the Long Black Hair" – (Decca 1960)
  • "Must Be Santa" / "Boys and Girls" – UK No. 40 (Decca 1960)
  • "My Big Best Shoes" / "The Dit Dit Song" – (Decca 1961)
  • "The Writing on the Wall" / "Drunken Guitar" – UK No. 30 (Decca 1961)
  • "Hit Record" / "What a Little Darling" – (Decca 1962)
  • "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" / "Butter Wouldn’t Melt in Your Mouth" – (Decca 1963)
  • "He's Got Love" / "Green Eye" – (Decca 1963)
  • "Flash Bang Wallop" / "She's Too Far Above Me" – (Decca 1963)
  • "Egg and Chips" / "The Dream Maker" – (Columbia 1963)
  • "Half a Sixpence" / "If the Rain's Got to Fall" – (RCA 1965)
  • "Fortuosity" / "I’m a Brass Band" – (Vista 1967)
  • "King's New Clothes" / "Wonderful Copenhagen" – (Pye 1974)
  • "Half a Sixpence" / "If the Rain's Got to Fall" – (Safari 1984)
  • "Singing the Blues" / "Come On, Let's Go" – (Old Gold 1985)
  • Albums

  • Tommy Steele Stage Show – UK No. 5 (Decca 1957)
  • The Tommy Steele Story – UK No. 1 (Decca 1957)
  • The Duke Wore Jeans (Soundtrack) – UK No. 1 (Decca 1958)
  • Tommy Steele Everything's Coming Up BROADWAY – (Liberty 1965)
  • My Life, My Song - (Pye 1974)
  • Singin' in the Rain – Original London Cast 1984 (Cast Masters 1995)
  • Some Like It Hot – Original London Cast (First Night Records 1996)
  • Scrooge: The Musical – Original London Cast (BK Records)
  • Half a Sixpence – Original London Cast 1963 (Must Close Saturday 2006)
  • Cinderella – Original London Cast 1958 (Hallmark 2011)
  • Filmography

    Actor
    1979
    Quincy's Quest as
    Quincy
    1978
    The Yeomen of the Guard (TV Movie) as
    Jack Point
    1973
    Once Upon a Time (TV Series) as
    Buttons
    - Buttons (1973) - Buttons
    1970
    ITV Saturday Night Theatre (TV Series) as
    Feste
    - Twelfth Night (1970) - Feste
    1969
    Where's Jack? as
    Jack Sheppard
    1969
    Gentle Ben (TV Series) as
    Scott
    - Lifeline (1969) - Scott
    1968
    Finian's Rainbow as
    Og
    1967
    Half a Sixpence as
    Arthur Kipps
    1967
    The Happiest Millionaire as
    John Lawless
    1964
    Richard Whittington Esquire (TV Movie) as
    Richard Whittington
    1963
    The Dream Maker as
    Billy Bowles
    1962
    The Tommy Steele Show: Quincy's Quest (TV Movie) as
    Quincy
    1962
    Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium (TV Series)
    - Episode #7.16 (1962)
    1960
    Skywatch as
    Eric McCaffey (as Gunner Tommy Steele)
    1959
    Tommy the Toreador as
    Tommy Tomkins
    1958
    The Duke Wore Jeans as
    Tony Whitecliffe / Tommy Hudson
    1957
    Rock Around the World as
    Tommy Steele
    Writer
    1979
    Quincy's Quest (screenplay) / (story)
    1973
    A Special Tommy Steele (TV Movie) (deviser) / (screenplay)
    1971
    Tommy Steele in Search of Charlie Chaplin (TV Movie) (writer)
    1969
    Omnibus (TV Series documentary) (writer - 1 episode)
    - Tommy Steele and Things (1969) - (writer)
    1964
    Richard Whittington Esquire (TV Movie) (outline)
    1962
    The Tommy Steele Show: Quincy's Quest (TV Movie) (story)
    Music Department
    1979
    Quincy's Quest (incidental theme music - as Jimmy Bennett)
    1974
    Omnibus (TV Series documentary) (songs written and composed by - 1 episode)
    - Tommy Steele: My Life, My Song (1974) - (songs written and composed by)
    1957
    The Shiralee (the voice of)
    1957
    Rock Around the World (Tommy Steele's numbers written & composed by)
    Soundtrack
    2017
    Love, Lies and Records (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Episode #1.4 (2017) - (performer: "Come On, Let's Go" - uncredited)
    2017
    Crooked House (writer: "Elevator Rock")
    2016
    Who's Doing the Dishes? (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Ricky Groves (2016) - (performer: "Flash Bang Wallop" - uncredited)
    -
    Call the Midwife (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode, 2012) (writer - 1 episode, 2012)
    - Baby Snatcher (2012) - (performer: "Elevator Rock" - uncredited) / (writer: "Elevator Rock" - uncredited)
    2009
    The Boys (Documentary) (performer: "Fortuosity")
    2008
    The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "I'll Always Be Irish" - uncredited)
    1994
    The Flintstones (writer: "Rock with the Caveman")
    1978
    Blake's 7 (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Bounty (1978) - (performer: "Singing the Blues")
    1968
    Finian's Rainbow (performer: "Something Sort of Grandish" (1946), "When I'm Not Near The Girl I Love" (1946), "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?" (1946) - uncredited)
    1967
    Half a Sixpence (performer: "All in the Cause of Economy", "Half a Sixpence", "Money to Burn", "The Race", "She's Too Far Above Me", "Flash, Bang, Wallop", "If the Rain's Got to Fall", "I'm Not Talking to You", "This Is My World")
    1967
    The Happiest Millionaire (performer: "Fortuosity", "I'll Always Be Irish", "Let's Have a Drink On It", "Finale: Let's Have a Drink on It" - uncredited)
    -
    Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode, 1966) (writer - 1 episode, 1966)
    - Liza Minnelli, Tommy Steele, Burr Tillstrom (1966) - (performer: "Little White Bull", "I Got No Strings", "Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year", "Hey, Mr. Banjo", "Buskin' the Wind", "New Sun in the Sky") / (writer: "Little White Bull")
    1960
    Skywatch (performer: "Touch It Light")
    1959
    Tommy the Toreador (performer: "The Little White Bull", "Tommy the Toreador", "Take A Ride", "Singing Time", "Amanda", "Where's the Birdie") / (writer: "The Little White Bull", "Tommy the Toreador", "Take A Ride", "Singing Time", "Amanda", "Where's the Birdie" - as Jimmy Bennett)
    1958
    The Duke Wore Jeans (performer: "It's All Happening", "What Do You Do", "Princess", "Family Tree", "Happy Guitar", "Hair Down", "Photograph My Baby", "Thanks a Lot" - uncredited)
    1957
    The Shiralee (performer: "The Shiralee", "Grandad's Rock" - uncredited) / (writer: "The Shiralee", "Grandad's Rock" - uncredited)
    1957
    Rock Around the World (performer: "Singin' the Blues", "A Handful of Songs", "Butterfingers", "Take Me Back Baby", "I Like", "Water Water", "You Gotta Go", "Cannibal Pot", "Two Eyes", "Build Up", "Doomsday Rock", "Time to Kill", "Elevator Rock" - uncredited) / (writer: "Butterfingers", "Take Me Back Baby", "I Like", "Water Water", "You Gotta Go", "Cannibal Pot", "Will It Be You?", "Two Eyes", "Build Up", "Doomsday Rock", "Time to Kill", "Elevator Rock" - uncredited)
    1957
    Kill Me Tomorrow (performer: "Rock With The Caveman" (uncredited), "Rebel Rock") / (writer: "Rock With The Caveman" (uncredited), "Rebel Rock")
    Composer
    1964
    Richard Whittington Esquire (TV Movie) (music composed by)
    Miscellaneous
    1979
    Quincy's Quest (stager)
    Self
    2023
    The Album (Documentary) as
    Self
    2009
    The One Show (TV Series) as
    Self / Self - Performer
    - Episode dated 6 June 2018 (2018) - Self - Performer
    - Episode dated 17 August 2010 (2010) - Self
    - Episode dated 24 September 2009 (2009) - Self
    2018
    The London Palladium: The Greatest Stage on Earth (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2015
    Neil Sean Meets... (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Tommy Steele (2015) - Self
    2015
    Hippodromes, Empires and Palaces: Tales from the Golden Age of Variety (Video documentary short) as
    Self - Theatrical Legend (as Tommy Steele OBE)
    2012
    The Royal History of Pop (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2012
    The Story of Musicals (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Episode #1.1 (2012) - Self
    2010
    Bee Gees: In Our Own Time (TV Movie) as
    Self
    2007
    This Morning (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 17 September 2007 (2007) - Self
    2005
    Blue Peter (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Christmas Special (2005) - Self
    2005
    Children in Need (TV Series) as
    Self - Performer
    - Episode #1.26 (2005) - Self - Performer
    2004
    The Royal Variety Performance 2004 (TV Special) as
    Performer
    2000
    BingoLotto (TV Series) as
    Self - Musical Guest
    - Avsnitt 1 (2000) - Self - Musical Guest
    1994
    Des O'Connor Tonight (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #17.12 (1994) - Self
    1992
    Aspel & Company (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #9.6 (1992) - Self
    1958
    This Is Your Life (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Lionel Bart (1991) - Self
    - Tommy Steele (1958) - Self
    1988
    Super-Chancen (TV Series) as
    Singer
    - Bella Center, Copenhagen (1988) - Singer
    1987
    Test of Faith (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    1986
    Mr Parnes, Shillings & Pence (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    1985
    Favourite Things (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Phil Drabble (1985) - Self
    1984
    Jim'll Fix It (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #11.1 (1984) - Self
    1969
    Omnibus (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - The Old Vic (1983) - Self
    - Tommy Steele: My Life, My Song (1974) - Self
    - Tommy Steele and Things (1969) - Self
    1983
    Wogan (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #2.9 (1983) - Self
    1982
    The Don Lane Show (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 22 February 1982 (1982) - Self
    - Episode dated 8 February 1982 (1982) - Self
    1981
    Tommy Steele: A Handful of Songs (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    1980
    The Variety Club Awards for 1979 (TV Special documentary) as
    Self - Show Business Personality
    1979
    Multi-Coloured Swap Shop (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #4.4 (1979) - Self
    1979
    Parkinson (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Michael Parkinson Meets Tommy Steele (1979) - Self
    1978
    Grandstand (TV Series) as
    Self - Pro-Celebrity Squash
    - Episode dated 20 May 1978 (1978) - Self - Pro-Celebrity Squash
    1973
    The 27th Annual Tony Awards (TV Special) as
    Self - Presenter
    1973
    A Special Tommy Steele (TV Movie) as
    Self
    1971
    Tommy Steele in Search of Charlie Chaplin (TV Movie) as
    Self
    1971
    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 17 February 1971 (1971) - Self
    1969
    The David Frost Show (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #3.61 (1970) - Self
    - Episode #1.2 (1969) - Self
    1968
    The World Premiere of 'Finian's Rainbow' (Short) as
    Self
    1968
    The Joey Bishop Show (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #3.35 (1968) - Self
    - Episode #2.95 (1968) - Self
    1966
    The Merv Griffin Show (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Tommy Steele, Jackie Vernon, Shecky Greene, Marilyn Michaels (1968) - Self
    - James Brown, Soupy Sales, Connie Stevens, Eddie Fisher, Tommy Steele, Jack Haley (1968) - Self
    - Eli Wallach, Tommy Steele, Julius LaRosa, Richard Pryor, Edward Albee, John Mason Brown, Nipsey Russell, Vi Velasco (1966) - Self
    - Tommy Steele, Jack Carter, Bob Crane, Mike St. Shaw, Nick Darvas, Jimmy Cannon, Aliza Kashi (1966) - Self
    1968
    Royal Film Performance 1968: "Romeo and Juliet" by Franco Zeffirelli. London as
    Self
    1968
    Personal Choice (TV Series) as
    Self - Interviewee
    - Tommy Steele (1968) - Self - Interviewee
    1967
    Release (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Half a Sixpence (1967) - Self
    1967
    Cinema (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Tommy Steele (1967) - Self
    1967
    The Heart of Show Business (TV Special) as
    Self - Performer
    1967
    Come and Get your Money (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    1966
    The Royal Variety Performance 1966 (TV Special) as
    Self
    1966
    Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Liza Minnelli, Tommy Steele, Burr Tillstrom (1966) - Self
    1966
    Gene Kelly in New York, New York (TV Special) as
    Self
    1965
    The Ed Sullivan Show (TV Series) as
    Self - Singer
    - Herman's Hermits, Tommy Steele, Trini Lopez, Roberta Peters, John Byner, Georgie Kaye, Stiller & Meara, Mr. Cox, The Malmo Girls (1965) - Self - Singer
    1965
    The Mike Douglas Show (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #4.134 (1965) - Self
    1963
    The Royal Variety Performance 1963 (TV Special) as
    Arthur Kipps
    1957
    Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium (TV Series) as
    Self / Self - Top Of The Bill
    - Episode #9.1 (1963) - Self
    - Episode #6.36 (1961) - Self - Top Of The Bill
    - Episode #3.16 (1958) - Self
    - Episode #2.20 (1957) - Self
    1963
    Talking Sport (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #1.1 (1963) - Self
    1963
    Farewell to the Vic (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    1963
    Musik der Welt (TV Movie) as
    Self - Musician
    1962
    Thank Your Lucky Stars (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #2.42 (1962) - Self
    1957
    Saturday Spectacular (TV Series) as
    Self
    - The Tommy Steele Show (1959) - Self
    - Episode dated 28 June 1958 (1958) - Self
    - Episode dated 4 May 1957 (1957) - Self
    1959
    The 1959 Show (TV Special) as
    Self
    1958
    Oh Boy! (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #1.8 (1958) - Self
    1957
    The Saturday Show (TV Series) as
    Self
    - The Golden Year (1957) - Self
    1957
    Cool for Cats (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #1.9 (1957) - Self
    1957
    Kill Me Tomorrow as
    Self
    1957
    Six-Five Special (TV Series) as
    Self - and His Steelmen / Self - and His Steelemen
    - Episode #1.7 (1957) - Self - and His Steelmen
    - Episode #1.6 (1957) - Self - and His Steelmen
    - Episode #1.5 (1957) - Self - and His Steelmen
    - Episode #1.4 (1957) - Self - and His Steelmen
    - Episode #1.3 (1957) - Self - and His Steelemen
    1957
    Show Band Parade (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #1.2 (1957) - Self
    1956
    Off the Record (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #2.7 (1956) - Self
    - Episode #2.2 (1956) - Self
    Archive Footage
    2022
    Tommy Steele: The Great Entertainer (TV Special documentary) as
    Self
    2002
    Heroes of Comedy (TV Series documentary)
    - Sidney James (2002)
    2002
    The Kid Stays in the Picture (Documentary) as
    Self (uncredited)
    1996
    The Very Best of Sid James (Video documentary)
    1991
    Alma Cogan: The Girl with the Giggle in Her Voice (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    1991
    Omnibus (TV Series documentary) as
    Eric McGaffey
    - Benny Hill: Clown Imperial (1991) - Eric McGaffey (uncredited)
    1985
    The Walt Disney Comedy and Magic Revue (Video short) as
    John Lawless
    1985
    The Rock 'n' Roll Years (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - 1957 (1985) - Self
    1981
    Years of Lightning (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - 1958: Now Dig This (1981) - Self
    1980
    Blue Suede Shoes (Documentary) as
    Self
    1977
    All You Need Is Love (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Hail! Hail! Rock'n'Roll!: Rock and Roll (1977) - Self
    1973
    Sju minuter nostalgi (TV Special documentary) as
    Self
    1964
    Highlight: The Singing Cinema
    1959
    Words and Music (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #3.3 (1959) - Self
    1957
    Six-Five Special (TV Series) as
    Excerpt from The Tommy Steele Story / Excerpt from Kill Me Tomorrow
    - Episode #1.55 (1958) - Excerpt from The Tommy Steele Story
    - Episode #1.17 (1957) - Excerpt from Kill Me Tomorrow

    References

    Tommy Steele Wikipedia


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