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Professional sports hall of fame in Canton, Ohio
Pro Football Hall of Fame
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Established
1963
Location
2121 George Halas Dr NW, Canton, Ohio
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40°49′16″N 81°23′52″W / 40.82111°N 81.39778°W / 40.82111; -81.39778Coordinates: 40°49′16″N 81°23′52″W / 40.82111°N 81.39778°W / 40.82111; -81.39778
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President
C. David Baker
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The Pro Football Hall of Fame is the hall of fame for professional American football, located in Canton, Ohio. Opened in 1963, the Hall of Fame enshrines exceptional figures in the sport of professional football, including players, coaches, franchise owners, and front-office personnel, almost all of whom made their primary contributions to the game in the National Football League (NFL); the Hall inducts between four and eight new enshrinees each year. The Hall of Fame's Mission is to "Honor the Heroes of the Game, Preserve its History, Promote its Values & Celebrate Excellence EVERYWHERE."
With the election of the Class of 2018[2] – Bobby Beathard, Robert Brazile, Brian Dawkins, Jerry Kramer, Ray Lewis, Randy Moss, Terrell Owens and Brian Urlacher – there are a total of 318 members of the Hall of Fame.[3]
Contents
1 History
1.1 Executive Directors/Presidents of Hall of Fame
2 Inductees
2.1 Selection process
2.1.1 Selection Committee
2.1.2 Voting procedure
2.2 Enshrinement ceremony
3 Hall of Fame Game
4 Criticism
5 See also
6 References
7 External links
History[edit]
Old entrance to The Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio
The community of Canton, Ohio successfully lobbied the NFL to have the Hall of Fame built in their city for two reasons: first, the NFL was founded in Canton in 1920 (at that time it was known as the American Professional Football Association); second, the now-defunct Canton Bulldogs were a successful NFL team based in Canton during the first few years of the league. Groundbreaking for the building was held on August 11, 1962. The original building contained just two rooms, and 19,000 square feet (1,800 m2) of interior space.[4]
In April 1970, ground was broken for the first of many expansions. This first expansion cost $620,000, and was completed in May 1971. The size was increased to 34,000 square feet (3,200 m2) by adding another room. The pro shop opened with this expansion. This was also an important milestone for the Pro Football Hall of Fame, as yearly attendance passed the 200,000 mark for the first time. This was at least in some part due to the increase in popularity of professional football caused by the advent of the American Football League and its success in the final two AFL-NFL World Championship games.[4]
Inside the original structure in 2008.
In November 1977, work began on another expansion project, costing US$1,200,000. It was completed in November 1978, enlarging the gift shop and research library, while doubling the size of the theater. The total size of the hall was now 50,500 square feet (4,690 m2), more than 2.5 times the original size.[4]
The building remained largely unchanged until July 1993. The Hall then announced yet another expansion, costing US$9,200,000, and adding a fifth room. This expansion was completed in October 1995. The building's size was increased to 82,307 square feet (7,647 m2). The most notable addition was the GameDay Stadium, which shows an NFL Films production on a 20-foot (6.1 m) by 42-foot (13 m) Cinemascope screen.[4]
In 2013, the Hall of Fame completed its largest expansion and renovation today. Currently, the Hall of Fame consists of 118,000 square feet.
An $800 million expansion project, Johnson Controls Hall of Fame Village, is underway and will be completed to coincide with the NFL's Centennial in 2020.[5]
Executive Directors/Presidents of Hall of Fame[edit]
Dick McCann (April 4, 1962 – November 1967)
Dick Gallagher (April 1968 – December 31, 1975)
Pete Elliott (February 1979 – October 31, 1996)
John Bankert (November 1, 1996 – December 31, 2005)
Steve Perry (April 24, 2006 – January 2014)
David Baker (January 6, 2014 – present)[6]
Inductees[edit]
The Hall is made up of several sections, at heart is the display of inductees.
Main article: List of Pro Football Hall of Fame inductees
Through 2018, all inductees except one, played some part of their professional career in the NFL (the lone exception is Buffalo Bills guard Billy Shaw, who played his entire career in the American Football League (AFL) prior to the 1970 AFL–NFL merger). Though several Hall of Famers have had AFL, Canadian Football League, World Football League, United States Football League, Arena Football League and/or Indoor Football League experience, and there is a division of the Hall devoted to alternative leagues such as this, to this point no players have made the Hall without having made significant contributions to either the NFL, AFL or All-America Football Conference. For CFL stars, there is a parallel Canadian Football Hall of Fame; only one player (Warren Moon) and one coach (Bud Grant) are in both halls.
The Chicago Bears have the most Hall of Famers among the league's franchises with either 34 or 28 enshrinees depending on whether you count players that only played a small portion of their careers with the team .[7]
Selection process[edit]
Selection Committee[edit]
Enshrinees are selected by a 48-person committee, largely made up of media members, officially known as the Selection Committee.[8]
Each city that has a current NFL team sends one representative from the local media to the committee. A city with more than one franchise sends a representative for each franchise.
There are also 15 at-large delegates including one representative from the Pro Football Writers Association. Except for the PFWA representative, who is appointed to a two-year term, all other appointments are open-ended and terminated only by death, incapacitation, retirement, or resignation.[8]
Voting procedure[edit]
Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium with the Hall of Fame in lower right
To be eligible for the nominating process, a player or coach must have been retired for at least five years. Any other contributor such as a team owner or executive can be voted in at any time.[9]
Fans may nominate any player, coach or contributor by simply writing to the Pro Football Hall of Fame via letter or email. The Selection Committee is then polled three times by mail to eventually narrow the list to 25 semifinalists: once in March, once in September, and once in October. In November, the committee then selects 15 finalists by mail balloting. A Seniors and Contributors Committee, subcommittees of the overall Selection Committee, nominate Seniors (those players who completed their careers more than 25 years ago) and Contributors (individuals who made contributions to the game in areas other than playing or coaching). The Seniors Committee and Contributors Committee add two or one finalist(s) on alternating years which makes a final ballot of 18 finalists under consideration by the full committee each year.[9] Committee members are instructed to only consider a candidate's professional football contributions and to disregard all other factors.[10]
The Selection Committee then meets on "Selection Saturday," the day before each Super Bowl game to elect a new class. To be elected, a finalist must receive at least 80 percent support from the Board, with at least four, but no more than eight, candidates being elected annually. Once a contributor is inducted into the Hall, they cannot be banished and remain an inductee forever.[10]
Enshrinement ceremony[edit]
A football signed by the 1974 Pro Football Hall of Fame enshrinement class
The enshrinement ceremony is usually held during the first full weekend in August. An enshrinement celebration is held throughout the week in Canton surrounding the enshrinement ceremony.[11]
Enshrinees do not go into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a member of a certain team. Rather, all of an enshrinee's affiliations are listed equally.[9] While the Baseball Hall of Fame plaques generally depict each of their inductees wearing a particular club's cap (with a few exceptions, such as Catfish Hunter and Greg Maddux), the bust sculptures of each Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee make no reference to any specific team. In addition to the bust that goes on permanent display at the Hall of Fame, inductees receive a distinctive Gold Jacket and previous inductees nearly always wear theirs when participating at new inductee ceremonies.
Previous induction ceremonies were held during the next day (Sunday from 1999–2005, Saturday in 2006), situated on the steps of the Hall of Fame building. Starting in 2002, the ceremony was moved to Fawcett Stadium (now Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium), where it was held from 1963 to 1965. Since 2007, the enshrinement ceremony has been held on the Saturday night.[12]
Hall of Fame Game[edit]
Main article: Pro Football Hall of Fame Game
The Hall of Fame Game, the annual NFL preseason opener, is played in Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton, Ohio. In 2017, the Hall of Fame Game was held for the first time on Thursday night. The preseason classic kicks off Enshrinement Week Powered by Johnson Controls and officially kicks off the NFL preseason.
Criticism[edit]
The "Other Leagues" display includes the USFL; inductee Jim Kelly's jersey is in the foreground.
The Pro Football Hall of Fame uses only media representatives to select inductees. This, along with its policy of inducting only a maximum of seven players a year (six in certain years past), with a current maximum of two "senior" candidates and five "non-seniors," has been criticized by sports columnists, former players, and football fans.[11] Such critics would like to see solutions such as expanding the number of selectors, rotating panel members on and off the selection committee, and allowing former players to participate in the voting.[13] The small number of candidates elected each year has helped foster what some perceive as an inequality of representation at certain positions or in certain categories of player, with defensive players in general and defensive backs and outside linebackers in particular, special teams players, wide receivers, deserving players who primarily played on bad teams, and those from the "seniors" category, being slighted. This has included a 2009 New York Times article which criticized the Hall for not including punter Ray Guy on its ballot, also noting that the Hall did not have an inductee at the time representing the position.[13] (At least two inductees, Sammy Baugh and Yale Lary, punted in addition to playing other positions.) Guy was eventually inducted as part of the 2014 class for the Hall of Fame. There has also been criticism that certain players get overlooked because their team underproduced during their careers.[14]
The Pro Football Hall of Fame is unique among North American major league sports halls of fame in that officials have generally been excluded from the Hall; only one, 1966 inductee Hugh "Shorty" Ray, has been enshrined. The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and Hockey Hall of Fame have each inducted game officials as members. In part to rectify the lack of officials and other off-field contributors, the Hall of Fame added a “Contributors” committee beginning with the class of 2015, which will nominate officials, general managers, owners and other positions that have historically been overlooked by the committee at large.[15]
Another prominent absence from the Hall is sports-journalist Howard Cosell, who has yet to be awarded the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award despite his well-known association with Monday Night Football. An August 2010 Sports Illustrated article hints that Cosell may have even been "blacklisted" by the NFL.[16][17]
As the late 2010s approached, a number of controversial and polarizing figures began to reach eligibility for the Hall. Terrell Owens's exclusion from the Hall in his first two years of eligibility despite his strong individual statistics was a subject of public debate.[18] Owens was elected to the Hall of Fame in 2018 but refused to attend the enshrinement ceremony.
Pro Football Hall of Fame (old entrance).
See also[edit]
Touchdown Club Charities Hall of Fame
Canadian Football Hall of Fame
Arena Football Hall of Fame
Dick McCann Memorial Award—sometimes referred to as the "writer's wing" of the Pro Football Hall of Fame
Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "History of the Pro Football Hall of Fame". Pro Football Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on February 6, 2012. Retrieved February 6, 2012.
Jump up ^ "Class of 2018 | Pro Football Hall of Fame Official Site". www.profootballhof.com. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
Jump up ^ "List of Hall of Fame members". Archived from the original on February 6, 2012. Retrieved February 6, 2012.
^ Jump up to: a b c d "The Pro Football Hall of Fame: Then and Now". Pro Football Hall of Fame. January 1, 2005. Archived from the original on February 6, 2012. Retrieved February 6, 2011.
Jump up ^ Tendler, Alexandra. "$800 million 'Disneyland' for football will open in 2020, NFL Hall of Fame pres. says". FoxBusiness.com. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
Jump up ^ "History of the Pro Football Hall of Fame". Pro Football Hall of Fame. Retrieved February 16, 2018.
Jump up ^ "Chicago Bears: Team History". Pro Football Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on February 6, 2012. Retrieved February 6, 2011.
^ Jump up to: a b "Selection Process". Pro Football Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on February 6, 2012. Retrieved February 6, 2012.
^ Jump up to: a b c "Selection Process FAQ". Pro Football Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on February 6, 2012. Retrieved February 6, 2012.
^ Jump up to: a b "Canton welcome mat still out for O.J. Simpson". ESPN.com. July 21, 2017. Retrieved July 22, 2017.
^ Jump up to: a b "2012 Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Festival Schedule". Pro Football Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on February 6, 2012. Retrieved February 6, 2012.
Jump up ^ "Class of 2007 Presenters". Pro Football Hall of Fame. July 2, 2007. Archived from the original on February 6, 2012. Retrieved February 6, 2012.
^ Jump up to: a b Joyner, K C (January 25, 2009). "A Case for Ray Guy Belonging in Pro Football Hall of Fame". The New York Times.
Jump up ^ Barall, Andy (February 16, 2012). "How to Fix Football's Hall of Fame Voting System". The New York Times.
Jump up ^ King, Peter (October 21, 2014). Behind the HOF’s New Contributor Committee. SI.com. Retrieved October 21, 2014.
Jump up ^ Billson, Marky (August 4, 2010). "As strange as it sounds, Howard Cosell has never won Rozelle award". Sports Illustrated. Archived from the original on October 6, 2010. Retrieved August 6, 2017.
Jump up ^ Researcher, NFL (February 4, 2013). "Cronyism on the part of the NFL and the Pro Football Hall of Fame?". NFL Sports Blog.
Jump up ^ "One Hall of Fame voter sheds light on why Terrell Owens didn't make it in".
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Bruce Forsyth
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Sir
Bruce Forsyth
CBE
Forsyth in 2006
Born
Bruce Joseph Forsyth-Johnson
(1928-02-22)22 February 1928
Edmonton, Middlesex, England
Died
18 August 2017(2017-08-18) (aged 89)
Wentworth Estate, Virginia Water, Surrey, England
Other names
Bruce Johnson, Boy Bruce, the Mighty Atom, Brucey, Sir Brucey
Occupation
Presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer, screenwriter
Years active
1939–2015
Spouse(s)
Penny Calvert
(m. 1953; div. 1973)
Anthea Redfern
(m. 1973; div. 1979)
Lady Wilnelia Merced
(m. 1983)
Children
6
Relatives
Joseph Forsyth Johnson
(great-grandfather)
William Forsyth
(4x great-grandfather)
Military career
Allegiance
United Kingdom
Service/branch
Royal Air Force
Years of service
1947–1949
Rank
Pilot
Unit
Film Unit
Battles/wars
Second World War
Sir Bruce Joseph Forsyth-Johnson CBE (22 February 1928 – 18 August 2017) was a British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer, and screenwriter whose career spanned more than 75 years. In 2012, Guinness World Records recognised Forsyth as having the longest television career for a male entertainer.[1] Forsyth came to national attention from the mid-1950s through the ITV series Sunday Night at the London Palladium. He went on to host several game shows, including The Generation Game, Play Your Cards Right, The Price Is Right and You Bet!. He co-presented Strictly Come Dancing from 2004 to 2013.[2]
Contents
[hide]
1 Early life
2 Career
2.1 Boy Bruce, the Mighty Atom
2.2 Post-war work
2.3 Game show host
2.4 Career revival
3 Tributes and honours
4 Personal life
5 Illness and death
6 Filmography
6.1 Film and television
6.2 Stage
7 Discography
7.1 Singles
7.2 Albums
8 Footnotes
9 References
10 External links
Early life[edit]
Forsyth was born on Victoria Road in Edmonton, Middlesex (today part of the London Borough of Enfield) on 22 February 1928,[3] the son of Florence Ada (née Pocknell) and John Thomas Forsyth-Johnson.[4] His family owned a car repair garage, and as members of the Salvation Army, his parents played brass instruments and his mother was a singer.[5] His great-grandfather Joseph Forsyth Johnson (1840–1906) was a landscape architect who worked in multiple countries,[6] and great-great-great-great-grandfather William Forsyth (1737–1804) was a founder of the Royal Horticultural Society and the namesake of the plant genus Forsythia.[7] During World War II, his older brother John, a pilot in the Royal Air Force, was killed in 1943 during a training exercise at RAF Turnberry.[8][9] Forsyth attended the Latymer School. After watching Fred Astaire in films at age eight, he trained in dance in Tottenham and then Brixton.[5]
Career[edit]
Boy Bruce, the Mighty Atom[edit]
Forsyth started his live public performances aged 14, with a song, dance and accordion act called "Boy Bruce, the Mighty Atom".[10] His first appearance was at the Theatre Royal in Bilston, with The Great Marzo at the top of the bill.[5] He had made his television debut in 1939 as a child, singing and dancing on BBC talent show Come and Be Televised, broadcast from Radiolympia, and introduced by Jasmine Bligh.[10][11]
Post-war work[edit]
After the war, with the goal of joining Moss Empires theatres, he spent years on stage with little success and travelled the UK working seven days a week, doing summer seasons, pantomimes and circuses, where he became renowned for his strong-man act.[12] His act was interrupted by call-up papers for National Service when he was drafted into the Royal Air Force.[13]
In 1958, an appearance with the comedian Dickie Henderson led to his being offered the job of compère of Val Parnell's weekly TV variety show, Sunday Night at the London Palladium.[14] He hosted the show for two years, followed by a year's break, then returned for another year.[15] His schedule of stage performances, which continued throughout the 1960s, forced him to give up the job of host.
Forsyth on front of "Every Night at the Palladium" souvenir brochure, 1962
Forsyth appeared in the London production of Little Me, along with Avril Angers in 1964.[16] In the musical film Star! (1968), a biopic of stage actress Gertrude Lawrence, he played alongside lead performer Julie Andrews as Lawrence's father.[17]
In January 1968 Pye Records issued as a single "I'm Backing Britain", supporting the campaign of the same name, written by Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent, and sung by Forsyth.[18] The chorus included "The feeling is growing, so let's keep it going, the good times are blowing our way". All involved in making the single took cuts in their fees or royalties so that the single sold for 5s. instead of the going rate of 7s. 4½d. Forsyth happily endorsed the campaign, saying "The country has always done its best when it is up against the wall. If everyone realises what we are up against we can get out of trouble easily."[19] The song did not make the charts,[20] selling only 7,319 copies.[21]
On 7 October 1968, he was top of the bill on the opening night of the Golden Garter nightclub, Wythenshawe.[22] Two years later, he played Swinburne in the Disney fantasy film Bedknobs and Broomsticks.[23] In 1976, he appeared on The Muppet Show, where he took on the famous duo of Statler and Waldorf.[24]
Game show host[edit]
During his spell of hosting Sunday Night at the London Palladium as part of the show he hosted the 15-minute game show Beat the Clock.[25] Forsyth's next success was The Generation Game (BBC1, 1971–1977, 1990–1994), which proved popular and attracted huge Saturday evening audiences.[26] It was on this show that Forsyth introduced his "The Thinker" pose, emulating Rodin's sculpture, appearing in silhouette each week after the opening titles. This pose is reminiscent of the circus strong-man attitude.[10] He also wrote and sang the theme for the show "Life is the Name of the Game."[27] Millions of viewers became familiar with the rasp of Forsyth's north London accented voice and his "distinctively pointy" chin that he emphasised in poses such as the "human question mark", with chin over raised knee.[5] He was replaced on The Generation Game by Larry Grayson.[28]
In 1977 he announced that he was leaving television to take the star role in a new musical, The Travelling Music Show, based on the songs of Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse.[29] The show did reasonably well in provincial theatre, but got bad reviews when it moved to London and closed after four months in July 1978.
London Weekend Television persuaded him to return to the screen later that year to present Bruce Forsyth's Big Night, a two-hour Saturday-night show on ITV encompassing a variety of different entertainment formats (later reduced to 90 minutes). However, the show was not a success and lasted for just one series.[30] Forsyth remained with ITV, hosting the game show Play Your Cards Right, which was the UK version of the US original Card Sharks, from 1980 to 1987, 1994 to 1999,[31] and a brief period from 2002 to 2003, before the show was cancelled mid-run due to low ratings.[32]
In 1986, he went to the United States to host a game show on ABC, Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak, which ran for 65 episodes from January to April that year.[10] Forsyth starred in the Thames Television sitcom Slinger's Day in 1986 and 1987, a sequel to Tripper's Day which had starred Leonard Rossiter, whom Forsyth replaced in the new show.[23] He was the original host of You Bet! (1988 to 1990), before the show reached mainstream success under the stewardship of Matthew Kelly.[33]
Forsyth fronted the third version of The Price Is Right (1995 to 2001).[31] His unsuccessful gameshows include Takeover Bid (1990 to 1991),[34] Hollywood Or Bust (1984),[35] and Didn't They Do Well! (2004).[36] During the 1970s Forsyth featured in the Stork margarine adverts on television,[37] and then during the 1980s and 1990s he appeared in an advertising campaign for the furniture retailer Courts, in which he dressed as a judge.[38]
Forsyth celebrated his 70th birthday in 1998 and appeared in a week-long run of his one-man show at the London Palladium.[23] In 2000, Forsyth hosted a revived series called Tonight at the London Palladium.[39]
Career revival[edit]
In 2003, and again in 2010, Forsyth was a guest presenter on the news and satire quiz show Have I Got News for You. Forsyth had called Paul Merton, one of the team captains on the show, to suggest himself as a guest presenter.[40] During the first of these appearances, he presented a parody of his Play Your Cards Right format entitled Play Your Iraqi Cards Right.[41] He co-presented Strictly Come Dancing from 2004 to 2013, formally stepping down from hosting the regular live show in April 2014. This decision was made to reduce his workload and for the preparation of pre-recorded specials.[42]
On 7 April 2010, Forsyth became one of the first three celebrities to be subjected to the British version of the American institution of a comedy roast, on Channel 4's A Comedy Roast.[43] Forsyth was the subject of the BBC genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are?, broadcast on 19 July 2010.[44] On 20 March 2010, Forsyth appeared on the autobiography-interview programme Piers Morgan's Life Stories, which was broadcast on ITV.[45]
In 2011, Forsyth released a collection of songs on CD called These Are My Favourites. He chose the songs for their personal and musical importance, including a duet with his granddaughter, Sophie Purdie. These Are My Favourites also includes a recording of "Paper Moon" with Nat King Cole.[46]
Tributes and honours[edit]
Forsyth opening The Sir Bruce Forsyth Auditorium at the Millfield Theatre, Enfield, in October 2009
Forsyth's showbiz awards include Variety Club Show Business Personality of the Year in 1975; TV Times Male TV Personality of the Year, in 1975, 1976, 1977 and 1978; and BBC TV Personality of the Year in 1991.[47][48]
On 7 June 1959 Forsyth was inducted into the elite entertainers' fraternity, the Grand Order of Water Rats, Water Rat number 566.[49]
In 1987, a fan club was created – the Great Bruce Forsyth Social Club.[50] They would later go on to assist Forsyth in singing his opening number, "It's Never Too Late", at his Audience With show.[50] He repaid this favour by adding the society to his busy schedule in June 1997 and appeared at their 10th AGM in Plymouth.[51]
Forsyth was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1998 Birthday Honours,[52] and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2006 New Year Honours.[53]
On 27 February 2005, the BBC screened A BAFTA Tribute to Bruce Forsyth to mark the entertainer's 60 years in show business.[54] He had a bronze bust of himself unveiled at the London Palladium in May 2005. The sculpture was created by his son-in-law and is on display in the theatre's Cinderella Bar.[54]
In 2008, Forsyth received the BAFTA Fellowship.[55] In 2009, he was awarded the Theatre Performer's Award at the annual Carl Alan Awards. Hosted by the International Dance Teachers' Association, the awards are voted for by the leading dance organisations in the United Kingdom and recognise those who have made an exceptional contribution to the world of dance and theatre.[56]
Forsyth received a Royal Television Society Lifetime Achievement Award on 17 March 2009.[57] On 26 January 2011 he received the National Television Awards special recognition award.[58]
Forsyth was made a Knight Bachelor in the 2011 Birthday Honours for services to entertainment and charity.[59] This followed a years-long public campaign to award him a knighthood. His investiture, by the Queen, took place on 12 October 2011 and he became Sir Bruce Forsyth CBE.[60]
In July 2012, Forsyth was given the honour of carrying the Olympic flame through London, as it finally reached the city on the penultimate day of the London 2012 Torch Relay.[61]
Forsyth earned a place in the 2013 Guinness Book of World Records as the male TV entertainer having had the longest career, calling it a "wonderful surprise".[62][63] He also appeared at the 2013 Glastonbury Festival on the Avalon stage, becoming the oldest performer to ever play at the festival.[64]. In 2018 the NTA's honoured the memory of Sir Bruce by naming an NTA award after him.
Personal life[edit]
Forsyth was married to Penny Calvert from 1953 until their divorce in 1973, with whom he had three daughters named Debbie, Julie, and Laura.[65] In 1973, he married Anthea Redfern, the hostess on The Generation Game. They had two daughters, Charlotte and Louisa, before divorcing in 1979. Asked to judge the 1980 Miss World competition, Forsyth met Puerto Rican beauty queen Wilnelia Merced, who was a fellow judge.[66] They were married from 1983[65] until his death in 2017. They had one son together, Jonathan Joseph, better known as "JJ".[67] By his six children, Forsyth had nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.[68]
Forsyth was a supporter and ambassador for the children's charity Caudwell Children,[69] regularly appearing at many of their fundraising events.[70]
In August 2014, Forsyth was one of 200 public figures who signed a letter to The Guardian expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September's referendum on that issue.[71]
Forsyth lived at the exclusive Wentworth Estate in Surrey.[72][73] Until 2000, he also occupied a flat in Nell Gwynn House, Sloane Avenue, Chelsea.[74]
Illness and death[edit]
Towards the end of his life, Forsyth suffered from ill health, which reduced his appearances in public. On 8 October 2015, he was admitted to hospital for cuts and minor concussion after falling at his home, caused by his tripping over a rug and hitting his head as a result.[75] A month later, he made his last full TV appearance on Strictly Children in Need Special,[33] with filming for this taking place prior to him undergoing surgery for an abdominal aortic aneurysm on 12 November.[76] As a result of his surgery, Forsyth was unable to host that year's Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special as planned, but a spokesman representing him later stated he would play a part in the production, recording a special video message for it.[77]
After 2015, Forsyth made no further public appearances, as his health began to decline, with his wife commenting that he struggled to move easily following his surgery.[78] On 26 February 2017, he was again admitted to hospital with a severe chest infection and spent five days in intensive care, before returning home on 3 March 2017.[79]
On 18 August 2017, Forsyth died of bronchial pneumonia at his Wentworth Estate home in Virginia Water, aged 89.[80][81] Several celebrities paid tribute to Forsyth following his death, including his former Strictly Come Dancing co-host Tess Daly; his friends Michael Parkinson, Jimmy Tarbuck, and Des O'Connor, the BBC director general Tony Hall and Prime Minister Theresa May.[82] BBC One aired Sir Bruce Forsyth – Mr Entertainment, in place of the scheduled The One Show, in tribute.[83] Forsyth was laid to rest on 5 September 2017 in a private ceremony attended only by close family and friends. A few days later, on 9 September 2017, when that year's series of Strictly Come Dancing began, it paid tribute to Forsyth with a special ballroom dance routine from their professional dancers.[84] On 14 December 2017, BBC announced that it would produce a tribute show to Forsyth at the London Palladium on 21 February 2018.[85] Hosted by Tess Daly, Sir Bruce: A Celebration was broadcast on BBC One on 11 March 2018.[86]
Filmography[edit]
Film and television[edit]
Year
Title
Role
Notes
1958–1964 Sunday Night at the London Palladium[87] Host TV
1960 The Royal Variety Performance'[87] Host TV
1961 The Royal Variety Performance[87] Host TV
1965–1969, 1973 The Bruce Forsyth Show[87] Host TV
1966
1975 Frankie and Bruce[87] Co-star TV
1968 Star![87] Arthur Lawrence Film
1969 Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? Uncle Limelight Film
1969 Red Peppers[87] George Pepper TV
1971 Bedknobs and Broomsticks[87] Swinburne, Bookman's henchman Film
1971 The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins[87] Clayton (segment "Avarice") Film
1971–1977
1990–1994 The Generation Game[87] Host TV
1971 The Royal Variety Performance[87] Host TV
1973 The Good Old Days[87] Guest star TV
1974 Bruce Forsyth Meets Lulu[88] Host TV
1976 The Mating Season[87] Bruce Gillespie TV
1976 The Muppet Show[24] Guest star TV
1978 Bruce Forsyth's Big Night[87] Host TV
1980 Sammy and Bruce[87] Co-star TV
1980–1987
1994–1999
2002–2003 Play Your Cards Right[87] Host TV
1983 Anna Pavlova[87] Alfred Batt Film
1984 Hollywood or Bust[87] Host TV
1986 Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak[87] Host TV
1986 Magnum, P.I. – Episode: "A Little Bit of Luck...A Little Bit of Grief" Lottery Host TV
1986–1987 Slinger's Day[87] Slinger TV
1988 The Royal Variety Performance[87] Co-host with Ronnie Corbett TV
1988 Bruce and Ronnie[87] Co-star TV
1988–1990 You Bet![87] Host TV
1990–1991 Takeover Bid[87] Host TV
1992–1993 Bruce's Guest Night[87] Host TV
1992 Fiddly Foodle Bird[87] Narrator TV
1995–2001 Bruce's Price Is Right[87] Host TV
1997 An Audience with Bruce Forsyth[87] Host TV
2000 House![87] Bruce Forsyth Film
2000 Tonight at the London Palladium[87] Host TV
2003/2010 Have I Got News for You [41] Guest Host TV
2004 Didn't They Do Well[87] Host TV
2004–2013, 2014, 2015 Strictly Come Dancing[footnotes 1][87] Co-host with Tess Daly TV
2010 Who Do You Think You Are?[44] Guest Host TV
2011 The Rob Brydon Show[89] Guest TV
2012 National Television Awards[87] Guest (With Ant & Dec) TV
2013 Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway[90] (Little Ant & Dec segment) Guest TV
2013 When Miranda Met Bruce[87] Guest star TV
2014 Perspectives: Bruce Forsyth on Sammy Davis Jr[91] Host TV
2014 Bruce's Hall of Fame[87] Host TV
Stage[edit]
Year
Title
Role
Notes
1958 – 2004 One-man show which had various titles Himself Intermittently toured UK[92][93]
1962 Every Night at the Palladium[94] Himself Starred with Morecambe and Wise in a season at the London Palladium
1964 Little Me[95] Various Characters A 334 performance season at the Cambridge Theatre
1978 The Traveling Music Show[95] Fred Limelight A four-month season at Her Majesty's Theatre, before touring the UK
1979 Bruce Forsyth on Broadway[95] Himself A five performance season of his one-man show at the Winter Garden Theatre from 12–17 June
2012–2015 Bruce Forsyth Entertains[96] Himself Toured the UK
Discography[edit]
Singles[edit]
1959, "Excerpts from The Desert Song (No.2)", with June Bronhill, Edmund Hockridge, Inia Te Wiata, The Williams Singers, Michael Collins and His Orchestra, (7", EP, Mono), His Master's Voice: 7EG 8676[97]
1960, "I'm A Good Boy", Parlophone , (2 versions)[97]
1960, "I'm In Charge", (7"), Parlophone: 45-R 4535[97]
1962, "The Oh-Be-Joyfuls, (7"), Piccadilly: 7N.35086[97]
1964, "Real Live Girl", (7", Single), Pye Records: 7N.15744[97]
1964, "Saturday Sunshine", (7"), Piccadilly: 7N.35169[97]
1964, "The Mysterious People", (7", Single), Piccadilly: 1189[97]
1965, "Real Live Girl", (7", Single), Blue Cat: BC 105[97]
1968, "I'm Backing Britain" / "There's Not Enough Love in the World", Pye Records (2 versions) [97]
1973, "Didn't He Do Well?" (7", Single, Lar), Phillips: 6006 285[97]
1978, "Love Medley", with Valerie Walsh, (7", Single, Promo), CBS: S CBS 6469[97]
Albums[edit]
Title
Album details
Peak chart positions
UK
The Musical Side Of Bruce
Released: 1973
Label: Pye Records: NSPL 18405
—
Both Sides of Bruce (Live)
Released: 1977
Label: Warner Bros. Records
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Come Get It!
Released: 1979
Label: Pye Records
—
Mr. Entertainment
Released: 19 March 2007
Label: EMI Records
—
These Are My Favourites[46]
Released: 7 November 2011
Label: EMI Records
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Footnotes[edit]
Jump up ^ He was guest host for three specials after 2013 - the Children in Need specials in 2014 and 2015, and the 2014 Christmas Special. He made a guest appearance for the 2015 Christmas Special via Video Message.
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Media related to Bruce Forsyth at Wikimedia Commons
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