Engelbert Humperdinck

Overview

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Acting
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Birthday
May 02, 1936 (89 years old)

Engelbert Humperdinck

Known For

Die Helene Fischer Show 2019
Movie 2019

Die Helene Fischer Show 2019

Spektakulär und schräg - Best of Eurovision Song
0h 45m
Movie 2018

Spektakulär und schräg - Best of Eurovision Song

Over the past 20 years, Eurovision has become bigger, more eccentric, and more international. We've compiled the great moments, tears, sadness, and embarrassing moments of the past 20 years. Here are our top ten!

The Joy of Easy Listening
1h 30m
Movie 2011

The Joy of Easy Listening

In-depth documentary about the story of easy listening, a popular music that is often said to be made to be heard but not listened to. The film looks at easy listening's architects and practitioners, its dangers and delights, and the mark it has left on modern life, from its emergence in the 1950s until its revival in the 1990s.

Engelbert Humperdinck: King of Romance
0h 48m
Movie 1998

Engelbert Humperdinck: King of Romance

Carried on the lush string arrangement of his signature song, we are transported across the miles to Leicester, the English city in which Engelbert Humperdinck grew up. The story emerges of any entertainer who, through every kind of adversity including a six month, near death battle with tuberculosis, nights spent sleeping in public washrooms and long periods of going without food from lack of money, persevered until his extraordinary talent as a singer and entertainer gained him recognition around the world.

Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady
3h 0m
Movie 1991

Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady

Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson get involved with Balkan terrorists to save Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria from an assassination at the opera house and prevent World War I.

Even Angels Fall
1h 32m
Movie 1991

Even Angels Fall

Engelbert Humperdinck and Morgan Fairchild are the unlikely star duo in Even Angels Fall. Humperdinck plays an author, specializing in Harlequin-type romances. His first of several mistakes is to move into an apartment where the previous tenant died mysteriously. Who will be next?

Separate Bedrooms
1h 33m
Movie 1989

Separate Bedrooms

Martin and Gert lead a very quiet life, until the day when their path crosses that of Marie and Francis. Martin, the shy one, lets himself be seduced by Marie. Gert wasted no time in understanding and dropped into Francis' arms.

Glory Years
2h 30m
Movie 1987

Glory Years

A group of former high-school buddies have a reunion in Las Vegas. Thinking to increase their alumni fund, they proceed to use it to gamble at the casinos. Of course, they lose it all. They then get together and try to figure out a way to win it all back.

Biography

Arnold George Dorsey MBE (born 2 May 1936), known professionally as Engelbert Humperdinck, is a British pop singer who has been described as "one of the finest middle-of-the-road balladeers around". He achieved international prominence in 1967 with his recording of "Release Me". Starting as a performer in the late 1950s under the name "Gerry Dorsey", he later adopted the name of German composer Engelbert Humperdinck as a stage name and found success after he partnered with manager Gordon Mills in 1965. His recordings of the ballads "Release Me" and "The Last Waltz" both topped the UK Singles Chart in 1967, selling more than a million copies each. Humperdinck scored further major hits in rapid succession, including "There Goes My Everything" (1967), "Am I That Easy to Forget" (1968) and "A Man Without Love" (1968). In the process, he attained a large following, with some of his most devoted fans calling themselves "Humperdinckers". Two of his singles were among the best-selling of the 1960s in the UK. During the 1970s, Humperdinck had significant North American chart successes with "After the Lovin'" (1976) and "This Moment in Time" (1979). Having garnered a reputation as a prolific concert performer, he received renewed attention during the 1990s lounge revival with his recordings of "Lesbian Seagull" for the soundtrack of Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996), and a dance album (1998). The new millennium brought a range of musical projects for the singer, including the Grammy-nominated gospel album Always Hear the Harmony: The Gospel Sessions (2003) and a double album of duets, Engelbert Calling (2014). In 2012, Humperdinck represented the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest in Baku with the song "Love Will Set You Free", and placed 25th out of 26. After marking more than 50 years as a successful singer, Humperdinck continues to record and tour, having sold more than 140 million records worldwide. Arnold George Dorsey was born in Madras, British India (now Chennai, India) in 1936, one of 10 children born to British Army NCO Mervyn Dorsey, who was of Welsh descent, and his wife Olive who, according to the singer, was of German descent. Various sources also say that he has Anglo-Indian heritage. His family moved to Leicester, England, when he was ten years old. He later showed an interest in music and began learning the saxophone. By the early 1950s, he was playing saxophone in nightclubs, but he is believed not to have begun singing until he was in his late teens. His impression of Jerry Lewis prompted friends to begin calling him "Gerry Dorsey", a name that he worked under for almost a decade. ... Source: Article "Engelbert Humperdinck (singer)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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