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The Entertainers: Tommy Steele

The Entertainers: Tommy Steele

  • TV documentary
  • Channel 5
  • 2022
  • 1 episode

A personal and revealing portrait of Tommy Steele, one of the country's greatest entertainers. Also features Michael Grade, Bradley Walsh, Marty Wilde, Marti Webb and Bill Kenwright

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Key details

Genre
Documentary
Broadcast
2022
Channel
Channel 5
Episodes
1
Features
Michael Grade, Bradley Walsh, Marty Wilde, Marti Webb, Bill Kenwright and Tommy Steele
Directors
Lucy Kenwright
Producers
Lucy Kenwright and Julia Harrington
Company

This 90-minute documentary tells the incredible story of how Tommy Steele went from East End boy to Britain's first rock'n'roll idol, before reinventing himself as a star of stage and screen, appearing in Hollywood films and television specials, and on Broadway and in the West End.

Rare archive material and interviews with those who know him best, including Michael Grade, Bradley Walsh, Marty Wilde, Marti Webb and Bill Kenwright, give an insight into this most private of stars, a man who left school at age 15 to join the merchant navy with no dreams of showbusiness and yet went on to be knighted by the Queen.

Catch-up

Additional details

Also known as
  • Tommy Steele: The Great Entertainer
  • Tommy Steele: In His Own Words (Originally billed title)
Picture
Colour

Broadcast details

First broadcast
Saturday 15th October 2022 at 8:30pm on Channel 5
Episode length
90 minutes
All previous repeats
  • Friday 5th April 2024 at 10:00pm on C5
  • Friday 27th January 2023 at 10:00pm on C5

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