Name given to frontline staff at Butlins holiday camps in the UK
Redcoats
Occupation
Occupation type
Employment, performing arts
Activity sectors
Entertainment, event management
Description
Competencies
Singing, dancing, acting
Fields of employment
Holiday camp
Redcoat is the name given to frontline staff at Butlin's holiday camps in the UK. A Redcoat has duties ranging from adult entertainer or children's entertainer to stewarding.
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and the Butlin's atmosphere was born. After that, entertainment was the heart of Butlins, and Bradford became the first of Butlin'sRedcoats. That night...
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career path from acting to television. Grant has also worked as a Redcoat at Butlin's Holiday Camps. Grant first appeared on television talking about astrology...
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School in England before running away aged 15 to join a revue company at Butlin's. She was a dancer at Murray's Cabaret Club with Mandy Rice-Davies at the...
Jeffries and Robert Shaw. He spent his holiday period working as a Redcoat in Butlin's Holiday Camps. Initially working in repertory and West End musicals...
was 11 years old.[citation needed] The family spent their holidays at Butlin's Minehead in Somerset, where Mulhern began performing in public. He became...
air corridor. Ball began his entertainment career by working as a Butlin'sRedcoat, and was an entertainer in northern clubs and cabaret. He was nicknamed...
1966 working as a Red Coat in Butlins Holiday camp at Mosney, County Meath. He spent the following two summers at the Butlins Holiday Camp in Clacton, Essex...
attended Worcester Grammar School for Girls. Diamond worked at a Butlins holiday camp as a redcoat and chalet-maid. She then began her career as a journalist...
Irish mother, Margaret. Barrymore spent his early career working as a Redcoat at Butlins holiday camps and then in the West End theatre shows of London, where...
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caretaker. During this period he worked a summer in Clacton-on-Sea as a ButlinsRedcoat, and after finishing his apprenticeship served his National Service...
Charles Edward Springall (19 June 1925 – 23 December 2006), known professionally as Charlie Drake, was an English comedian, actor, writer and singer. With...
joined the Whitehall Theatre Company. With Bill Maynard he appeared at Butlin's Holiday Camp in Skegness, Lincolnshire and partnered him in the TV series...
part of a comedy cabaret trio when he was 17. He also worked as a Butlin'sredcoat for a season. He later went solo and auditioned for BBC's talent show...
appearance as a pantomime dancer in Bath, and a year later, became a Butlin'sRedcoat. She then became part of a London ballet troupe which travelled Sweden...