Jack Wild on Engelbert Humperdinck (1970)

[@firenze5555]

Jack Wild was so insanely talented - impeccable timing and a natural performer and dancer!

[@NewsHistorian]

Jack is carrying this whole production.

[@birdsfan57]

Watching this makes me so sad to realize that society, the world, and entertainment can NEVER be this great again! These were certainly some of the best of times, and I'm so very happy to have witnessed them first hand (I was 13 when this first aired) and remembered when both Englebert (my late Mom just adored him) and Tom Jones had their own weekly variety shows.

[@scottmiller6495]

You're absolutely right but today's young people 35 and under Don't care about this or anything else from the past or entertainment from the 1960s through the 1980s when people and times were much much better than Now!!!!!

[@Godschild-ws8il]

Me too😢

[@pixiepqueen]

This guy was more talented than people realise

[@cindybriden372]

I agree!! He was so underrated. It's too bad that he had the issues he had with alcoholism smoking which robbed him of his life way to early.

[@scottmiller6495]

He should have won Best Supporting Actor in 1968 for Oliver! Jack Albertson was a great actor who got the award that year, but Jack Wild stole the movie in many people's opinion!!!!!

[@katherine9109]

he was SO short! he's 18 in this vid !!! but you're right - he was great in 'Oliver!'.

[@LanceABoyle]

He needed to stand on the corner on a box.

[@juliemiller2523]

I HAD SUCH A CRUSH ON HIM GROWING UP.. IM 64 NOW.. OWN OLIVER AND HR PUFINSTUFF

[@lauracrane1465]

Me too. I saw most of his movies and TV shows and specials. I am 58. Jack died on my birthday.

[@KFG721]

Me too! I made my grandparents buy me his album ❤

[@broella6493]

My crush too! I loved him more than you did! Lol! I was sure he and I would be together someday!

[@desiguy55]

ard to believe but jack was 17 when he did HR puffenstuf.

[@sarahkorver2439]

Me too ! I had a massive crush on him 😍 xx

[@caroleann_2142]

Jack was such a Hearthrob, my wall was covered as a tween. Belonged to his fanclub too.🥰💙🌺

[@gypsymom0819]

Mine too CaroleAnn. Posters were such a part of a girl's life in the 60s and 70s.

[@PhoenixLyon]

Jack was why I loved "Oliver!". Gods...where would we girls have been without 16, Teen, Tiger Beat etc.? LOL ✌😸

[@julieannsheridan6438]

He was my first crush as a little girl in the mid seventies

[@birdsfan57]

@@PhoenixLyon Yep! And Fave and Flip...the late 60's through early-mid 70's were a pre-teen and teen girl's dream come true, with so many "idols" to crush on...The Monkees, The Cowsills (esp. John and Barry), Len Whiting (of Romeo and Juliet fame), Dino, Desi and Billy, Bobby Sherman, David Cassidy, The Osmond Brothers...

[@ROBYNMARKOW]

My dad bought his album for me & my best friend & I played it until it skipped. We thought he was such a cutie w/his Brit accent 💕

[@suzannemarie8783]

He had such a sad end to his life … RIP Jack

[@caroleann_2142]

He was actually happy before his death, which makes me happy. 💙💯

[@harrietgate]

Jack has huge charisma and outshines the rest.

[@scottmiller6495]

You'll never ever see again anything like this ever again Ever PERIOD!!!!!

[@treblazelaznog]

H.R. Pufnstuf WAS MY favorite every day after school program! Very talented performer in singing and funny fun to watch. I miss those day's!

[@stephenrafter1022]

Jack was definitely an old soul.

[@purplefoxgirl3799]

NOOO!!

[@catherinehooper9039]

Perfect! RIP Jack!

[@truthteller8459]

I had a crush on him too as well.

[@syedraza9927]

Rest In Peace Jack Wild ✌️

[@chazarcola7639]

After the Krofft Brothers live show at the Hollywood Bowl during the early 1970s, Marty Krofft tried to persuade Jack Wild to remain in Hollywood and audition for other roles. But the young boy decided to go back to the U.K. and focus working on more prestigious British series. A great pity. Jack would have been a welcome guest performer on American variety shows like Donny and Marie, Sonny and Cher, Van Dyke and Company, even Shields and Yarnell. I myself am surprised that he didn't guest star on The Carol Burnett Show and The Julie Andrews Hour.

[@kobrakitsch877]

Just imagine The Artful Dodger interacting with Mary Poppins or Eliza Dolittle on The Julie Andrews Hour.

[@scottmiller6495]

​@@kobrakitsch877It would've been Fantastic!!!!!

[@kobrakitsch877]

@@scottmiller6495 Yes indeed. It would have been fantastic. Think about Jack Wild also guest starring on popular hit TV shows of the 1970s like The Love Boat, Fantasy Island or Happy Days. Jack and Suzy Quatro who played Leather Tuscadero on HD were going to star in a TV musical about Bonnie and Clyde. But it didn't materialize. Heavy sigh.

[@oddbobproductions781]

I would've married the Artful Gypsy Dodger any day

[@lesleysheppard2737]

Me to he was my 1st crush

[@ColtDee]

Jack what a lovely act brilliantly performed.

[@nikidocious6433]

"Now shake hands and come out crooning" - the Gypsy Mickey Rooney 😄👍

[@scottmiller6495]

He was the English Mickey Rooney!!!!!

[@Godschild-ws8il]

Way beyond his age… so talented… he had so much and left us too soon… so sad… I grew up with him even had a crush on him as a young girl… RIP Jack😢

[@caroleann_2142]

Jack had given up Booze 16 yrs & Smokes 10 yrs Before his Death, He was with his wife 10 years prior, and just happened to Get married a year before he passed away. Read her Book!

[@corneliapopescu52]

MAGNIFIQUE VIDEO !!! LOVE YOU FOREVER, RESPECT, TENDRESSE. NELLY, BELGIQUE.

[@nanettenn9734]

Engel truly fits the part he really does look like a gorgeous Gypsy King,they use to call me Gypsy when I was young I guess because of my long black hair and my fancy gypsy earrings and brackets that I wore.Great video ,just loved it.Thanks for posting this

[@energybrown]

Fabulous!

[@gloriahull8539]

Wonderful 😊.

[@oddbobproductions781]

I am verry confused, though. I thought Jack's character was supposedly in love with the gypsy girl and now he's moderating a duel and congratulating the 70s chad who won?

[@gloriahull8539]

Beautiful 🥰 I love it.

[@billboth6572]

Wow, only 18 in this show

[@wordsofcheresie936]

I just now looked up his height and he was 5'8". All of the women tower over him.

[@chrisjenkins9978]

@@wordsofcheresie936 - Nah, he’s under 5’2”. Engelbert is 6’1”.

[@isabelazar3332]

According to his autobiography he was 4'10''.

[@pinkfreud62]

And divorced at 14. 😄

[@solstice0141]

@@chrisjenkins9978 Nope he was 5'4'. Anne Moses, then Editor of Tiger Beat Magazine specifically stated that she is 5'2' and that Jack is "taller than me by a couple of inches".

[@joanwood9480]

Jack was having a good time

[@gloriahull8539]

Great 👌 comedy,

[@Chicharrera.]

Cockney lad. I'm from Australia and grew up learning about our convict past.

[@kobrakitsch877]

Wasn't there an Australian children's television series entitled THE ESCAPE OF THE ARTFUL DODGER ???

[@BAFFLED-u4o]

I love You.

[@purplefoxgirl3799]

Wuh??

[@villalospimientos9411]

Uploading the lirics "That's the way it was in Vaudeille.

[@purplefoxgirl3799]

Its Disapointing in The Old Days The parents Choose who their Children would Marry !!Luckily!! Its Not Like That Anymore! :D

[@Lyldntss]

Eterno Dodger

[@leannkaattari1647]

12 yr old me would have swooned

[@littlediver63]

Jack should’ve been an ongoing actor. I don’t understand why more shows didn’t pick him up. Wasted talent 😢

[@paulhiggins1577]

Jesus, TV was crap then like it is today

[@jacklowe3429]

It's a shame that a guy as honestly talented as Jack Wild was ruined his career and ended his life through substance abuse. God rest his soul.

[@LUISACAIN-db5vn]

Yeah ihad a crush on him as well lol

[@pardyhardly]

Zero Mostel has died.

[@VinnieRattolle]

Breaking news! 45 years ago, that is.

[@beaumontwoolrich8791]

The bald man is not Zero Mostel, but is Jack E. Leonard, prettu close resemblance, Zero usually had a comb over en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_E._Leonard

[@Resenbrink]

Astonishing choreography 🙄

[@nsbd90now]

Well, that didn't age well. lol!

[@purplefoxgirl3799]

I Found IT Funny, That, "Its Okay My Divorce Came through Yesterday" IT Rimes!!! Well, Atleast for Me Like if You Agree! (See what i Mean 😂)

[@paisleybabee]

Cringe worthy on the Roma slurs but Jack 💗

[@nene3857]

Such a corny show😂