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Celebrating television's This Is Your Life
Alan MINTER (1951-2020)
THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Alan Minter, boxer, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews during a charity fundraising event for the St George's Club in the Great Rooms of the Grosvenor House Hotel on Park Lane in London.
Alan, who was born in Penge, Bromley and first began boxing at school, joined the Crawley Amateur Boxing Club at the age of 12. As an amateur boxer he had 145 fights, and won a bronze medal at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich in the light-middleweight classification before turning professional later that year.
Nicknamed Boom Boom Minty, Alan won the British Middleweight title in 1975 and the European Middleweight title in 1977. In March 1980 he became the World Middleweight Champion defeating Italian-American Vito Antuofermo at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas - the first British boxer to win a world title in the US in 63 years.
"Oh dear, oh dear!"
programme details...
- Edition No: 543
- Subject No: 540
- Broadcast date: Wed 23 Apr 1980
- Broadcast time: 7.00-7.30pm
- Recorded: Wed 23 Apr 1980
- Venue: New London Theatre
- Series: 20
- Edition: 22
- Code name: Dawn
on the guest list...
- Lorraine - wife
- Doug Bidwell - father-in-law
- Vera - mother-in-law
- Kim - sister-in-law
- Keith - brother-in-law
- Bob Edgeworth
- Bobby Neill
- Sid - father
- Anne - mother
- Micky - brother
- Maizie Williams
- Marcia Barrett
- Chris Carmen
- Kevin Aides
- Glynn Hallam James
- David Thornbeck
- Terence Thornbeck
- Steve Connor
- David Connor
- Graham Moughton
- Maurice O'Sullivan
- Billy Taylor
- Neville Cole
- Billy Knight
- Ralph Evans
- George Turpin
- Henry Cooper
- Kerry - daughter
- Ross - son
- Dieter Kottysch Filmed tributes:
- Sylvester Stallone
- Joan Collins
- pupils of Chailey Heritage School for Physically Handicapped Children
- Tom Caphilly
related appearance...
- Douglas Bader - Mar 1982
- Jack Berg - Jan 1987
- Barry McGuigan - Dec 1988
- Harry Carpenter - Mar 1991
- The Night of 1000 Lives - Jan 2000
production team...
- Researchers: John Graham, Vivien Lind
- Writers: Tom Brennand, Roy Bottomley
- Directors: Paul Stewart Laing, Terry Yarwood
- Producer: Jack Crawshaw
- names above in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life
from flyweight to heavyweight
a celebration of a thousand editions
Screenshots of Alan Minter This Is Your Life
Series 20 subjects
Pat Seed | Fred Trueman | Noel Barber | Charles Aznavour | Eric Sykes | Andrew Sachs | Gerald Harper | Terry GriffithsPaddie O'Neil | George Martin | Geoff Capes | Roy Kinnear | Nyree Dawn Porter | Emlyn Hughes | Stewart Granger
Clare Francis | Jilly Cooper | Robin Cousins | Brian Bevan | Bill Beaumont | Mike Tetley
Alan Minter | Nat Jackley | Cathleen Nesbitt | Michael Aspel | Clive Lloyd