Chris Howland
Chris Howland | |
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Born | John Christopher Howland 30 July 1928 London, England |
Died | 29 November 2013 Rösrath, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany | (aged 85)
Occupation(s) | Radio and TV presenter, actor, singer, author |
Chris Howland (30 July 1928 – 29 November 2013) was a British radio and television presenter,
Life and career
John Christopher Howland was born in London on 30 July 1928;
Radio and singing
In 1948, Howland began to work for the
He made his debut as a singer, in German, arguing that many pop singers were successful without a professional singing voice, and he could do the same. He landed two hits, one of them the
Later in his career, he worked as a radio moderator,[6] including the series Spielereien mit Schallplatten for WDR 4,[4] and continued till three days before his death.[2]
Television
Howland had a show called Peoples and Places on British television from 1959[1] but he was not as popular as in Germany where the audiences loved his British accent. Two years later he returned to Germany, where he got a show called Musik aus Studio B , which featured pop stars in a new, often humorous way.[1][2][7] The show was broadcast more than sixty times in eight years,[7] and achieved cult status. Howland's next coup was a version of Candid Camera for German television, Versteckte Kamera, first presented in 1961. It was stopped in 1963 for concerns about privacy of the people pictured,[3] but was later revived with other moderators.[2] In the 1980s Howland presented Souvenirs, Souvenirs for ARD.[4]
Like the Dutch TV entertainer Rudi Carrell and American musician Bill Ramsey, who also appeared as guest in Howland's show "Studio B",[7] Howland made his accent his trademark.[6]
Cinema
From 1954, Howland acted in more than twenty films, including Witwer mit fünf Töchtern (
Personal life
Until his death, Howland lived in outside Cologne. In 2009 he published his memoirs Yes, Sir.[7] The book was well received.[6]
Howland died in Rösrath near Cologne on 29 November 2013, at age 85.[2][4] Tom Buhrow called him a legend and said that Germans of the 1950s became familiar with new international hits through him, he made them laugh and dance, writing WDR history, with his personal accent, his British humour and his exquisite music selection.[4]
Films
Films with Howland include:[8]
- Ball of Nations (1954), as Dr. Johnson
- The Major and the Bulls (1955), as Sergeant Bobby
- Engagement at Wolfgangsee (1956), as James Milroy
- Widower with Five Daughters (1957), as Mr. Printice
- The Blue Sea and You (1959), as Christopher Greenwood
- A Thousand Stars Aglitter (1959), as Freddy
- I Learned That in Paris (1960), as Fred Miller
- The White Spider (1963), as Gideon
- The Black Panther of Ratana (1964), as Charly
- Mission to Hell (1964), as Smokie
- The Shoot(1964), as Archibald
- Fanny Hill (1964), as Mr. Norbert
- Legacy of the Incas (1965), as Don Parmesan
- Halløj i himmelsengen (1965), as Franz Joseph
- Wild Kurdistan (1965), as Archibald
- Kingdom of the Silver Lion (1965), as Archibald
- Agent 505: Death Trap in Beirut (1966), as Robert O'Toole
- Blood at Sundown (1966), as Doodle Kramer
- Red Lips (Sadisterotica) (1969). as Francis McClune
- Kiss Me Monster (1969), as Francis McClune
- Who's Crazy, Doc? (1982), as Mr. Anderson
- Neues vom Wixxer (2007), as Hudson
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Bartetzko, Dieter (2 December 2023). "Chris Howland gestorben : Mister Pumpernickel". FAZ (in German). Retrieved 2 December 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "Chris Howland: Mr. Pumpernickel brachte "Musik aus Studio B"" (in German). NDR. 29 November 2023. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
- ^ a b c d e Möller, Barbara (2 December 2023). "Warum wurde Chris Howland beim NDR gehasst?". Die Welt (in German). Retrieved 2 December 2023.
- ^ a b c d e "Chris Howland: Mr. Pumpernickel brachte "Musik aus Studio B"" (in German). Deutschlandfunk. 2 December 2023. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
- ^ Gerwin, Hanno (2011). "Interview with Chris Howland" (in German). Archived from the original on 19 July 2011.
- ^ a b c d e Miersch, Michael (29 July 2008). "Kabarett: Chris Howland war der erste Gastarbeiter". Die Welt (in German).
- ^ a b c d Spenst, Tanja (4 January 2010). "Eine Homage an den Künstler Chris Howland". suite101.de (in German). Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 27 January 2011.
- ^ "Chris Howland". filmportal.de (in German). 2023. Retrieved 2 December 2023.