John Hanson (singer)
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates John Hanson (31 August 1922 – 4 December 1998)<ref name="AMG">Template:Cite web</ref> was a Canadian-born English tenor and actor, who starred in several West End musicals during the 1960s and 1970s.<ref name="Larkin50">Template:Cite book</ref>
Born John Stanley Watts<ref name="AMG"/> in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, of English parents, who moved back across the Atlantic three years later.<ref name="Larkin50"/> He was educated at Dumfries Academy in Dumfries, Scotland.<ref name="Larkin50"/> His headmaster recognized his talent as a boy soprano, and recommended him to the BBC in Scotland. It was there that he made his debut, at the age of 12.<ref name="Larkin50"/>
His 1960 album, The Student Prince / The Vagabond King peaked at Number 9 in the UK Albums Chart.<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums">Template:Cite book</ref> Hanson was most famous for his role as the "Red Shadow", the hero of the musical The Desert Song,<ref name="Larkin50"/> which enjoyed a record-breaking revival at the Palace Theatre in 1967.
He also appeared in the 1973 Christmas Special of the BBC's Morecambe and Wise Show in which he sang "Stout-Hearted Men". He also appeared on BBC TV's long running variety show, The Good Old Days.
Hanson died in December 1998, at the age of 76, in Shepperton, Surrey, England.<ref name="AMG"/>
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- 1922 births
- 1998 deaths
- 20th-century English male actors
- 20th-century English male singers
- 20th-century English singers
- Canadian emigrants to England
- English male musical theatre actors
- English male television actors
- English tenors
- Male actors from Oshawa
- Musicians from Oshawa
- People educated at Dumfries Academy