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Tommy Steele

(1936-), Singer and actor

Sitter in 12 portraits
Tommy Steele shot to fame as Britain's first rock and roll star with Number One hits such as Singing the Blues (1957. A slow-starting film and theatre career rapidly expanded in the late 1950s and reached its peak with Half A Sixpence (1963), film 1967).

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Tommy Steele

by Bob Collins
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1956
NPG x136588

Tommy Steele

by Bob Collins
bromide fibre print, 1956
NPG x35157

Tommy Steele

by Bob Collins
modern bromide fibre print from original negative, 1956
NPG x35158

Betty Hicks; Godfrey Herbert Winn; Tommy Steele

by George Douglas
vintage print, 1957
NPG x137784

Tommy Steele

by Harry Hammond
bromide fibre print, 1958
NPG x15548

Lionel Bart; Alma Cogan; Tommy Steele

by (Dezider) Dezo Hoffmann
gelatin silver print, 6 June 1960
NPG x198431

Tommy Steele

by Godfrey Argent
bromide print, 8 August 1968
NPG x87791

Tommy Steele

by Godfrey Argent
bromide print, 8 August 1968
NPG x87792

Tommy Steele

by James Jarché
bromide print
NPG x34572

Tommy Steele

by Bob Collins
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1956
NPG x136589

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Tommy Steele

by Bob Collins
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1956
NPG x136590

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Tommy Steele

by Bob Collins
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1956
NPG x136591

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Betty Hicks (mother)

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