Who Am I?

Today we bring you another Who Am I puzzle. As usual we give you ten clues from which you have to work out the name of our mystery celebrity.

01 I was born in London in 1936.
02 I was widely regarded as Britain's first teen idol.
03 My real name is Thomas William Hicks.
04 I am a musician,singer and actor.
05 For a brief spell I was a merchant seaman.
06 I played the title roll in 'Hans Christian Andersen' in the West End.
07 I play guitar and banjo.
08 I wrote a novel in the early 1980's called 'The Final Run'.
09 My autobiography was entitled 'Bermondsey Boy'.
10 I married Ann O'Donoghue in 1960.

Any ideas who this mystery celebrity might be?