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Melvyn Hayes
Melvyn Hayes (né Hyams; born 11 January 1935) is an English actor and voice-over performer with a career spanning more than seven and a half decades. Performing in films, television shows and on stage, Hayes frequently portrayed camp-styled characters.
Hayes' professional career began on stage before transitioning to film and television in the late 1950s. He was a recurring actor in films starring pop musician Cliff Richard such as The Young Ones (1961), Summer Holiday (1963) and Wonderful Life (1964). He had a recurring role in the film series The Magnificent Six and 1/2 in the late 60s and its subsequent series, the short lived sitcom Here Come the Double Deckers! in 1971.
Hayes' appeared as the camp character Gunner (later Bombardier) "Gloria" Beaumont in the television comedy It Ain't Half Hot Mum, from 1974 to 1981. After the show ended, he moved to voice acting, and had a role in the children's animated show SuperTed as the villain Skeleton from 1983 to 1986, and in its short reboot show, The Further Adventures of SuperTed in 1989.
Hayes has more recently appeared as himself in entertainment shows such as The Alan Titchmarsh Show and Would I Lie to You?, and has made occasional performances as a one-off character in shows Benidorm and Not Going Out.
He is the father to actress Charlie Hayes, who was born while Hayes was married to actress Wendy Padbury.
Born on 11 January 1935 in Wandsworth, South London as Melvyn Hyams, he was the third of four children to Jewish parents Isaac and Queenie Hyams, of Dutch and Polish ancestry. His father worked at a fairground before opening a suit shop in Wandsworth, which the family lived above. His mother was a housewife who sang in working men's clubs. As Antisemitism was common at the time, his parents went under the names Peter and Sarah.
When he was four, he was evacuated to Dawlish, Devon during the Second World War with two of his brothers. They lived with many other children in a house owned by a woman called Mrs. Cobham; during Hayes' stay at the house, one boy died of Pneumonia and another was beaten for wetting the bed. Eventually, their mother came and took the boys and moved back to London. They lived in Devon until 1944, when they moved to Clapham, where they remained until the war ended.[citation needed] In the winter of 1944, Hayes' brother Colin was wounded by a explosion near their Clapham flat.
His first experience with acting came in primary school when he played the Gingerbread Man in a school play. After passing his 11 plus exam, Hayes attended Sir Walter St John's Grammar School For Boys, in Battersea, where he was bullied because of his height and his Jewish background. While there, he was in the schools Chess and Boxing clubs.[citation needed]
Melvyn Hayes
Melvyn Hayes (né Hyams; born 11 January 1935) is an English actor and voice-over performer with a career spanning more than seven and a half decades. Performing in films, television shows and on stage, Hayes frequently portrayed camp-styled characters.
Hayes' professional career began on stage before transitioning to film and television in the late 1950s. He was a recurring actor in films starring pop musician Cliff Richard such as The Young Ones (1961), Summer Holiday (1963) and Wonderful Life (1964). He had a recurring role in the film series The Magnificent Six and 1/2 in the late 60s and its subsequent series, the short lived sitcom Here Come the Double Deckers! in 1971.
Hayes' appeared as the camp character Gunner (later Bombardier) "Gloria" Beaumont in the television comedy It Ain't Half Hot Mum, from 1974 to 1981. After the show ended, he moved to voice acting, and had a role in the children's animated show SuperTed as the villain Skeleton from 1983 to 1986, and in its short reboot show, The Further Adventures of SuperTed in 1989.
Hayes has more recently appeared as himself in entertainment shows such as The Alan Titchmarsh Show and Would I Lie to You?, and has made occasional performances as a one-off character in shows Benidorm and Not Going Out.
He is the father to actress Charlie Hayes, who was born while Hayes was married to actress Wendy Padbury.
Born on 11 January 1935 in Wandsworth, South London as Melvyn Hyams, he was the third of four children to Jewish parents Isaac and Queenie Hyams, of Dutch and Polish ancestry. His father worked at a fairground before opening a suit shop in Wandsworth, which the family lived above. His mother was a housewife who sang in working men's clubs. As Antisemitism was common at the time, his parents went under the names Peter and Sarah.
When he was four, he was evacuated to Dawlish, Devon during the Second World War with two of his brothers. They lived with many other children in a house owned by a woman called Mrs. Cobham; during Hayes' stay at the house, one boy died of Pneumonia and another was beaten for wetting the bed. Eventually, their mother came and took the boys and moved back to London. They lived in Devon until 1944, when they moved to Clapham, where they remained until the war ended.[citation needed] In the winter of 1944, Hayes' brother Colin was wounded by a explosion near their Clapham flat.
His first experience with acting came in primary school when he played the Gingerbread Man in a school play. After passing his 11 plus exam, Hayes attended Sir Walter St John's Grammar School For Boys, in Battersea, where he was bullied because of his height and his Jewish background. While there, he was in the schools Chess and Boxing clubs.[citation needed]