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Lionel Bart
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British writer and composer of pop music and musicals
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 16
Top works
- אוליבר טוויסט
- Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be
- Oliver
- Oliver
- Oliver!
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Film & TV
Stepney, London, England, UK
Lionel Bart (1 August 1930 – 3 April 1999) was a British writer and composer of pop music and musicals. He wrote Tommy Steele's "Rock with the Caveman", which became the first British pop song to break into the American Top 40, and was the sole creator of the musical Oliver! (1960). With Oliver! and his work alongside theatre director Joan Littlewood at Theatre Royal, Stratford East, he played an…
Known for
- The Story of Musicals — Self (archive footage)2012
- The Brian Epstein Story — Self1998
- An Audience with... — Self1978
- One Pair Of Eyes - Who Are The Cockneys Now? — Self1968
- Vive Torbay — Self1968
- One Pair of Eyes1967
- The Merv Griffin Show — Self1962
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1930
- Active to
- 1999
Discography
Member of
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 10,417
- Total plays
- 63,137
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Bart was born Lionel Begleiter the youngest of seven surviving children in East London to Galician Jews, and grew up in Stepney. His father worked as a tailor in a garden shed in London E1. The family had escaped the pogroms in Galicia which was then part of the Austrian Empire. Lionel later changed his name to Bart derived from the name of the silk screen printing firm he and John Gorman[1] created ("G & B Arts", for Gorman and Begleiter) after he had completed his National Service with the Ro
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Lionel
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Stepney
- Place of death
- Hammersmith
- Occupation
- songwriter
- Educated at
- Saint Martin's School of Art
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Record label
- Deram
- Military branch
- Royal Air Force
- Image
- Lionel Bart Allan Warren.jpg
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- Commons category
- Lionel Bart
- date of birth
- 1930-08-01
- date of death
- 1999-04-03
- nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Musical
- cause of death
- liver cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- start of work period
- 1952-00-00
- pseudonym
- Lionel Bart
- birth name
- Lionel Begleiter
- ethnic group
- Jewish people
- place of burial
- Golders Green Crematorium
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