He was evacuated to Northampton during the Second World War, where he worked in a shoe factory and was a schoolboy and reserves player with Northampton Town. He had a brother, William, and a sister, Patricia, one year his junior. In his childhood, he had rickets and was later badly injured in a hit-and-run car accident which meant he had to be in an iron lung for six months. His father was of Irish Catholic descent and his mother was Jewish, and he joked that he was the first O’Connor to have a bar mitzvah.
Early life ĭesmond Bernard O'Connor was born on 12 January 1932 in Stepney, East London, to Maude ( née Bassett), a cleaner, and Harry O'Connor, a dustman. Well known for his friendship with comedians Morecambe and Wise, his singing ability was often light-heartedly mocked on their show, with O'Connor taking part in the sketches. O'Connor recorded 36 albums and had four top-ten UK singles, including a number-one hit with " I Pretend", with global sales of more than sixteen million records. television game shows, including Take Your Pick! from 1992 to 1999, and the long-running Channel 4 game show Countdown for two years between 20. He was a long-time TV chat-show host, beginning with The Des O'Connor Show in 1963, which ran for ten years. Desmond Bernard O'Connor CBE (12 January 1932 – 14 November 2020) was an English comedian, singer and television presenter.
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