Researching Marcel Stellman
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The name Marcel means "Form of MARC. Warlike" and is of Latin origin.
Records of Marcel Stellman on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Marcel Stellman and the Stellman Family Tree
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Investigate the Ellis Island Database for information on Marcel Stellman. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Marcel Stellman
Marcel Stellman
Marcel Leopold Stellman (15 February 1925 – 2 May 2021) was a Belgian born British record producer and lyricist.Among the many artists who recorded Stellman’s songs: Cilla Black, Petula Clark, Charles Aznavour, The Shadows and Tony Bennett. In the UK he is best known as the man who brought the French show Des chiffres et des lettres to the UK as Countdown. His pseudonyms as a lyricist include Gene Martyn and Leo Johns.
Stellman was born in Antwerp, Belgium. His mother, Lily, was Scottish and his father, Willy Stellman, was Belgian. In 1938 his father took him to his Uncle Leopold’s jazz club, where he saw Louis Armstrong perform.
He was one of 11 children to Jewish parents, Lilly and Willy Stellman. His father died of natural causes when he was young and five of his siblings were killed in the Nazi death camps. However, his mother, who was Scottish, escaped the German invasion of Belgium in 1940 with the 14-year-old Marcel and settled in Glasgow. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/marcel-stellman-obituary-fw8v3fxp6
Stellman's long association with the BBC began in the 1940s and 50s when he presented schools and children's radio programming. In the 1960s he worked on a television series for children featuring Pinky and Perky, two singing puppet pigs. In the 1980s he stood in for Alan Dell, presenting 'Sounds Easy' on BBC Radio 2.
He died on 2 May 2021 at the age of 96. The episode of Countdown broadcast on 4 May 2021 was dedicated to him.
Stellman wrote the English lyrics to the songs Tulips from Amsterdam and Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht (Marble Breaks and Iron Bends).
Source: Marcel Stellman, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Stellman
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