- Born
- Died
- Birth nameDonald Rhys Hubert Peers
- Nickname
- The Cavalier of Song
- Donald Peers was born on July 10, 1908 in Ammanford, Dyfed, Wales, UK. He was an actor, known for Sing Along with Me (1952), The Balloon Goes Up (1942) and Club Night (1964). He was married to Gertrude Mary Thomson. He died on August 8, 1973 in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK.
- SpouseGertrude Mary Thomson(1930 - August 9, 1973) (his death, 1 child)
- Singer of light popular music whose signature song was 'By a Babbling Brook'.
- At the height of his fame he was receiving 3,000 fan letters a week. In the early 1960s Peers was given his own television programme, Donald Peers Presents, and, in that programme, he introduced Tom Jones and also scientist and writer Brian J. Ford, this time playing boogie piano.
- Donald travelled around the country working as a house painter and, for a time, went to sea as a mess steward on ships.
- His memorial tablet in the Garden of Remembrance is weather-beaten and reads, 'Donald Peers, August 1973, Loved by Kates, "In a Shady Nook by a Babbling Brook"'.
- Donald's family were hoping he would become a schoolteacher, but he had other ambitions and left home at the age of sixteen.
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