Hughie Green
| Hughie Green | |
|---|---|
Green presenting the first episode of
Double Your Money, 1955 |
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| Born |
Hugh Hughes Green 2 February 1920 Marylebone, London, England |
| Died | 3 May 1997 (aged 77) Chelsea, London, England |
| Cause of death | Lung cancer |
| Resting place | Golders Green Crematorium, London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Arnold House School |
| Occupation | Television presenter, game show host |
| Known for | Double Your Money Opportunity Knocks |
| Spouse(s) | Claire Wilson (m. 1942; div. 1975) |
| Children | Christopher Green Linda Plentl Paula Yates and Barry Hands |
| Parent(s) | Hugh Aitchison Green Violet Elenore Price |
Hugh Hughes Green (2 February 1920 – 3 May 1997) was an English television presenter.
Green was born in Marylebone, London, to a Scottish father, Hugh Aitchison Green, a former British Army officer from Glasgow who made his fortune supplying tinned fish to the Allied forces in the First World War, and an English mother, Violet Elenore (née Price), from Surrey, the daughter of an Irish gardener. The family had a home in Meopham, Kent, where the children lived with their mother, who took frequent lovers, while their father did business from the Savoy Hotel, and often stayed there. Green attended Arnold House School, a boys' prep school.
After the family business went bankrupt, Green's father encouraged his stage-obsessed son into performance, and by the age of 14 Hughie Green had his own BBC radio show and created and toured with his own all-children cast concert party called "Hughie Green and his Gang". After an extensive tour of Canada, in 1935 Green appeared in his first film, Midshipman Easy, then went to Hollywood where he appeared in the film Tom Brown's School Days and at the Cocoanut Grove with his cabaret act.
Having already fathered his first illegitimate child with Vera Hands, a Birmingham usherette at the age of 17, and having been caught in North America on the declaration of war, during the Second World War Green served as a pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force, ferrying aircraft across the Atlantic with RAF Ferry Command. In 1942, he married Montreal society beauty Claire Wilson, and went on to work in the aircraft industry as a ferry transport pilot and stunt pilot. From 1947, when he returned to London, he was involved in business activities that included selling aircraft.
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