- Val Parnell
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birth_name = Valentine Charles Parnell
birth_date = birth date|1892|02|14
birth_place =London ,England
death_date = death date and age|1972|09|22|1892|02|14
death_place =France
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footnotes =Valentine Charles Parnell (
14 February 1892 –22 September 1972 ), best known simply as Val Parnell, was a British television producer and theatricalimpresario .Life and career
Parnell was born in
London onValentine's Day in 1892. He began his theatrical career at age 13 by working as an office boy for a music-hall circuit. By 1945 he had become Managing Director of the Moss Empire music hall circuit, in charge of some of London's most prestigious theatres.He auditioned and signed a twelve-year-old
Julie Andrews for her first professional performance and introduced her to her manager, Charles Tucker, aka Uncle Charlie Tucker [Windeler, Robert: "Julie Andrews: A Biography", pg 24, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1970] .In 1956 he was appointed Managing Director of
Associated TeleVision . He took a personal interest in the station's output and presented the weekly musical variety show, "Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium", until 1965.He resigned his position at ATV in 1962 to make way for
Lew Grade and retired in 1966.Later life
He died in
France in 1972.References
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NAME = Parnell, Val
ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Parnell, Valentine Charles
SHORT DESCRIPTION = Impresario
DATE OF BIRTH =1892-02-14
PLACE OF BIRTH =London ,England
DATE OF DEATH =1972-09-22
PLACE OF DEATH =France
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