Tony Hancock
Birthday
1924/05/12
Day of death
1968/06/25 (44 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Also know as
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Biography
High-profile during the 1950s and early 1960s, he had a major success with his BBC series Hancock's Half Hour, first broadcast on radio from 1954, then on television from 1956, in which he soon formed a strong professional and personal bond with comic actor Sid James. Although Hancock's decision to cease working with James when it became known in early 1960 disappointed many at the time, his last BBC series in 1961 contains some of his best remembered work ("The Blood Donor"). After breaking with his scriptwriters Ray Galton and Alan Simpson later that year, his career took a downward course.
Acting
(1965) Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
as Harry Popperwell
(1954) Orders Are Orders
as Lt. Wilfred Cartroad
(1961) The Rebel
as Anthony Hancock
(1963) The Punch and Judy Man
as Walter Pinner
(1972) Hancock Down Under
as Tony Hancock
(1966) Hancock at the Royal Festival Hall
as Self
(1960) Face to Face: Tony Hancock
as Self
(1958) The Government Inspector
as ---
(2023) Hancock: Very Nearly an Armful
as Self (Archival Footage)
(1966) The Wrong Box
as Detective
(1957) Hancock's Half Hour: Volume 1
as ---
(1977) To See Such Fun
as ---
(1985) Tony Hancock: From East Cheam to Earls Court
as Self (Archive)
(1956) Hancock's Half Hour
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(1985) The Glass Box
as Self (archival footage)
(1958) Christmas Night with the Stars
as ---