He has spoken before about how his father, Ray Cameron, died when he was 17, but said less about how his parents’ marriage split up before that, with his mum – beautiful and much younger than her husband – cheating on a builder who was doing up the house when Cameron was working in the States. The builder, Steve, became his stepdad. Michael believed his father Ray Cameron had died of a heart attack when he was just 17 years old. Cameron, also a comedian, took his own life by shooting himself in his Hollywood apartment block at.
McIntyre’s upbringing may have been unglamorously middle-class but he was born into comedy. His Canadian father Ray Cameron was a scriptwriter who struck gold with the Kenny Everett Television Show. Oct 11, 2014 Farewell: Michael, aged 17, and Ray Cameron in London in 1993, six months before his father's suicide Now that myth had been shattered.
Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow). IMDB reports Going Live! was Michael McIntyre's first TV appearance in 1989. In 1984 he starred as E.T. (voice, uncredited) in his first movie Bloodbath at the House of Death.Birthday | February 21, 1976 |
Nationality | English |
Name in Passport | Michael Hazen James McIntyre |
Debut | Bloodbath at the House of Death(1984) |
Ethnicity | Scottish, Hungarian, (Read: 16 Surprising Celebrity Ethnicities) |
Ethnic category/Race(?) | White |
Sexuality - Gay or Nay | Straight |
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Bloodbath at the House of DeathCharacter: E.T. (voice, uncredited)| Date: 1984
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Birth Name: Michael Hazen James McIntyre
Place of Birth: Merton, Surrey, England, U.K.
Date of Birth: 21 February, 1976
Ethnicity:
*Scottish (father)
*Ashkenazi Jewish (maternal grandfather, who converted to Catholicism)
*Hungarian (maternal grandmother)
*Scottish (father)
*Ashkenazi Jewish (maternal grandfather, who converted to Catholicism)
*Hungarian (maternal grandmother)
Michael McIntyre is an English comedian, actor, and presenter. He was the host of the BBC show Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow.
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Michael is the son of Kathleen M. “Kati” (Namenyi-Katz) and Ray Cameron (born Thomas Cameron McIntyre), a comedian and television producer. He is married to Kitty McIntyre (born Kitty Teresa Ward), the sister of actress Sophie Ward.
Michael’s paternal grandparents’ surnames were “McIntyre” and “Cameron”. Michael’s father was born in Montréal, Canada, to Scottish parents.
Michael’s maternal grandfather was Laszlo Namenyi-Katz. Laszlo, a scientist, was a Hungarian Jew who converted to Catholicism, and left Hungary when the Nazis came to power in Germany. Michael did not find out about his Jewish ancestry until he was 20 years old.
Michael’s maternal grandmother, whose maiden name was “Meszaros”, was born in Budapest, of Hungarian (non-Jewish) descent.
In his book Life and Laughing: My Story (2010), Michael wrote:
Why do I look foreign? Let’s examine my heritage. My parents are not English people. My father is from Montreal in Canada, and both my mother’s parents were from Hungary. I am therefore a ‘Canary’. I consider myself British. I have only visited Hungary and Canada once.
Michael’s eyes are often portrayed as an Asian trait in the media, and are sometimes jokingly described as a Chinese or Japanese. He often uses his looks for comic purposes, having said that when smiling, he looks like a fat Chinese man, and that he is often mistaken for being Chinese. In Life and Laughing: My Story, he wrote:
Not only was I a big baby, I was also remarkably oriental in appearance. Nobody really knows why I looked like Mr Miyagi from The Karate Kid and, let’s be honest, my appearance has been the source of quite a lot of material for me. A midwife asked my mother if my father was Chinese or Japanese. My grandparents thought my parents took home the wrong baby. Questions were asked about my mother’s fidelity. My father beat up our local dry cleaner, Mr Wu.
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And about visiting his friend while in university, and encountering his roommate:
I reached the door and knocked. Within moments, I was being viewed through the peep-hole, as I heard a Scottish voice from the other side of the door holler, ‘It’s Hugh Grant, but he’s all Chinesey.’
Sources:Life and Laughing: My Story, by Michael McIntyre
Birth certificate of Michael McIntyre – https://familysearch.org
Obituary of Michael’s father, Thomas McIntyre – https://familysearch.org
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