Melvyn hayes biography
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Melvyn Hayes
English actor (born 1935)
For the American footballer, see Melvin Hayes.
Melvyn Hayes (néHyams) is an English actor and voice-over performer. He is best known for playing the effeminate Gunner (later Bombardier) "Gloria" Beaumont in the 1970s BBC sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum, for appearing in the Cliff Richard musical films The Young Ones, Summer Holiday and Wonderful Life as well as Here Come the Double Deckers (1970–1971).
Professional career
[edit]Early life and stage roles
[edit]Born in Wandsworth, South London,[1] Hayes attended Sir Walter St John's Grammar School For Boys, Battersea. As a youth he worked in Fleet Street, carrying advertising print blocks between newspapers. In 1950 he saw an advertisement seeking an assistant for the conjurer The Great Massoni.[2] He got the job and was soon "disappearing twice daily for £4 per week" performing the Indian rope trick in Maskelyne's Mysteries at The Comedy Theatre in
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After spending the next ten years working constantly in films, theatre and television drama, his first big break came in 1960, when he signed a seven-year spelfilm contract with Associated British Picture Corporation and starred in No Trees in The Street, Crooks in Cloisters and the Cliff Richard movies, The ung Ones, Summer Holiday and Wonderful Life.
Early work for the B.B.C. included the title role in the award winning drama documentary The Unloved, The Artful Dodger in Oliver Twist and Edik in The Silver Sword.
In the mid 60’s he played over a thousand performances of Bill Naughton’s Spring and Port Wine in London’s West End.
Another lucky break came in the 70’s – Bombardier ‘Gloria’ Beaumont in television’s It Ain’t Half Hot Mum.
Melvyn has more than fifty films, (including The Curse of Frankenstein, Operat
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Melvyn Hayes
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Melvyn started in show business at the Comedy Theatre London in 1950 disappearing twice daily for �4.00 per week in Maskelyne's Mysteries, performing The Indian Rope Trick.
After spending the next ten years working constantly in films, theatre and television drama, his first big break came in 1960, when he signed a seven-year film contract with Associated British Picture Corporation and starred in No Trees in The Street, Crooks in Cloisters and the Cliff Richard movies, The Young Ones, Summer Holiday and Wonderful Life.
Early work for the B.B.C. included the title role in the award winning drama documentary The Unloved, The Artful Dodger in Oliver Twist and Edik in The Silver Sword.
In the mid 60's he played over a thousand performances
of Bill Naughton's Spring and Port Wine in London's West End.
Another lucky break came in the 70's - Bombardier "Gloria" Beaumont in television's It Ain't Half Hot Mum.
Melvyn has more than fifty films,