Tony Hancock

Birthday:: 05/12/1924
Place of birth:: Hall Green, Birmingham, England, UK:
Biography:: Anthony John Hancock was an English comedian and actor. 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.

Credits

	Hancock: Very Nearly an Armful (2023) as Self (Archival Footage)
	Tony Hancock: From East Cheam to Earls Court (1985) as Self (Archive)
	To See Such Fun (1977)
	Hancock Down Under (1972) as Tony Hancock
	Hancock at the Royal Festival Hall (1966) as Self
	The Wrong Box (1966) as Detective
	Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes (1965) as Harry Popperwell
	The Punch and Judy Man (1963) as Walter Pinner
	The Rebel (1961) as Anthony Hancock
	Face to Face: Tony Hancock (1960) as Self
	The Government Inspector (1958) as Hlestakov
	Hancock's Half Hour: Volume 1 (1957) as Tony Aloysius Hancock
	Orders Are Orders (1954) as Lt. Wilfred Cartroad

	Hancock at the Royal Festival Hall Writer
	The Punch and Judy Man Screenplay