Name: | Peter Oakley |
Occupation: | YouTubers |
Gender: | Male |
Birth Day: | August 20, 1927 |
Death Date: | Mar 23, 2014 (age 86) |
Age: | Aged 86 |
Country: | England |
Zodiac Sign: | Leo |
Peter Oakley
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As per our current Database, Peter Oakley died on Mar 23, 2014 (age 86).
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Before Fame
During the World War II years, he was a radar technician for the British Army. In the post-war period, he worked in Leicester, England’s public health sector.
Biography
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Oakley’s YouTube success inspired other older people, particularly men with life experiences to share, to begin posting vlogs on it. Jonathan King credits him for starting his YouTube videos in 2006. Oakley influenced World War II veteran Martin H. Slobodkin (1920–2006), who, under the name MHarris1920, started to post his own blogs. Martin died in October 2006, and received an outpouring of tributes from other YouTube users after his wife, Teresa, posted a video announcing his death. His widow temporarily took over his blogs, but later closed this account. Another older person is Bernhard von Schwerin, who appears under the name bernie1927. He too was a World War II veteran, but on the German side. He was encouraged by Oakley, and has talked about his youth and his many travels, and his emigration to the U.S. in 1951.
On 17 August 2006, Oakley uploaded “Telling it all 7”, in which he made a statement about how much attention he had received from the media over the previous days. He mentioned that this was not what he sought or wanted. He also stated that any web sites using his username (geriatric1927) were in no way affiliated with him. In “Telling it all 7”, he stated that he had received many messages from advertising companies, telephone companies, and newspaper companies that wanted to interview him, but he preferred to speak only to his fellow YouTubers, whom he considered his friends.
On 16 February 2007, Oakley made his first television appearance, on a special episode of the BBC’s The Money Programme called “Coming to Your Screen: DIY TV”. The program was taped in the autumn of 2006. He also featured in a radio interview for the BBC World Service. In March 2007, Oakley announced that he was working on some television programmes about silver surfing.
Oakley was part of a BBC documentary in which he was recruited as one of The Zimmers, a group of pensioners whom the documentary maker Tim Samuels brought together to sing The Who’s classic “My Generation” to highlight the plight of pensioners in modern Britain. The single was released in May 2007 to raise money for the charity Age Concern. As part of The Zimmers, Oakley recorded a version of the Alan Parsons Project’s song “Old and Wise”. His work with the band took him to Washington, D.C. in September 2007, as a guest of the AARP.
In early 2010, entertainer Al Chantrey—a friend of Oakley’s and a fellow YouTube user—wrote and recorded a song for him which Oakley featured in several videos. The song, entitled ‘Telling It All’ (based on Oakley’s video series) talks about Oakley’s life. On 5 March 2014 Chantrey posted the song on his own channel on YouTube, accompanied by video footage of Peter as a tribute following the announcement of his illness.
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Currently, Peter Oakley is 95 years, 7 months and 3 days old. Peter Oakley will celebrate 96th birthday on a Sunday 20th of August 2023.
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