Patricia Bredin Husband: Meet Ivor Emmanuel

Patricia Bredin was previously married to Ivor Emmanuel. He was a Welsh musical theatre and television singer and actor. He is probably best remembered however, for his appearance as “Private Owen” in the 1964 film, Zulu, in which his character rallies outnumbered British soldiers by leading them in the stirring Welsh battle hymn, Men of Harlech to counter the Zulu war chants.

During the late 1950s, he participated in the Welsh language singing television programme Dewch i Mewn, and from 1958 to 1964 was the lead singer on the TWW show, Gwlad y Gan (land of Song), among other TV shows.

He also featured on the box set, The Greatest Musicals of the 20th Century, on the 1966 RCA Victrola recording of The Pirates of Penzance, and in a solo album, The Best of Ivor Emmanuel.

Emmanuel retired to a quiet life in Benalmadena, a village near Malaga on Spain’s Costa del Sol, in 1984 with his wife. He died of a stroke in Malaga, aged 79.