Noel Harrison

Noel John Christopher Harrison was an English singer, actor, and Olympic skier. He was the son of the actor Rex Harrison.

He was born in Kensington in London in 1934. His mother, Collette Thomas, was the first of Rex Harrisons six wives they divorced in 1942. He lived with his mothers parents in Bude, North Cornwall, during World War II. At age fifteen she took him out of school at Radley to live in the Swiss Alps. He never returned to school and began skiracing. He joined the Ipswich repertory theatre group and taught himself guitar, but his main interest and most of his spare time was spent skiing. At an early age he was a member of the British ski team, becoming its first giantslalom champion in 1953, and representing Great Britain at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway, and at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina dAmpezzo, Italy.

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