Tony Hancock
Tony Hancock was born in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom on May 12th, 1924 and is the Comedian. At the age of 44, Tony Hancock biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Anthony John Hancock (1924 – 25 June 1968) was an English comedian and actor who rose to fame in the 1950s and early 1960s with his BBC drama Hancock's Half Hour, first broadcast on radio from 1954 and then on television from 1956, where he soon established a strong commercial and personal connection with comic actor Sid James.
Despite Hancock's decision not to work with James, when it became known in early 1960, many at the time, his last BBC series in 1961 contained some of his best remembered work (including "The Blood Donor" and "The Radio Ham")).
His career declined after breaking with his scriptwriters Ray Galton and Alan Simpson later this year.
Personal life
After a brief courtship in June 1950, Hancock married Cicely Romanis, a Lanvin model.
Freddie Ross began as a publicist in 1954 and became more involved in his own life, eventually becoming his mistress. In 1965, he divorced Cicely and married Ross in December of that year. This second marriage was short-lived. During these years Hancock was also involved with Joan Le Mesurier (née Malin), the current wife of actor John Le Mesurier, Hancock's new best friend and a regular supporting actor from his television series. Joan was later to discuss the marriage in her book Lady Don't Fall Backwards, which included the suggestion that her husband willingly forgave the affair; she is quoted as saying that if it had been anyone else, he would not have understood it, but with Tony Hancock it made sense. Freddie died after suffering an overdose in July 1966 but recovered. Hancock, who was in Blackpool to record a version of his variety collection, was approached by journalists curious about his wife's attempted suicide. The final dissolution of the marriage took place a few days before Hancock's suicide.
Cicely's heroin use began in 1969, the year after her ex husband's death. Freddie Hancock survived her broken marriage and resumed her work as a leading publicist and agent in the film and television industry. She has worked in New York City for many years as the East Coast chapter of BAFTA, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, headquartered in New York City.
Early life and career
Hancock was born in Southam Road, Birmingham (then in Warwickshire), but he was born in Bournemouth (then in Hampshire), where his father, John Hancock, worked as a comedian and entertainer from the age of three.
Hancock and his siblings lived in a small hotel called Durlston Court in Bournemouth, following their father's death in 1934. He attended Durlston Court Preparatory School, a part of Durlston's boarding school near Swanage (the name of which his parents adopted for their hotel) and Bradfield College in Reading, Berkshire, but he left school at the age of fifteen.
Hancock served with the Royal Army in 1942 during the Second World War. He appeared on "Wings" after a failed audition for the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA). He returned to the stage and eventually served as resident comedian at the Windmill Theatre, a venue that helped to launch many comedians at the time. In July 1948, the Windmill's work was highlighted in a positive newspaper review. "But a note must be made regarding a new young comedian, who performs with a piano partner, gives some excellent thumbnail sketches of a "dud" concert performance." He appeared on radio shows such as Workers' Playtime and Variety Bandbox. He was lauded in July 1949 for his participation in "Flotsam's Follies" at the Esplanade Concert Hall, Bognor Regis. In the Cinderella pantomime at the Royal Artillery, Woolwich, 1949, he appeared as "Buttons" in the Cinderella pantomime. He launched the "Ocean Revue" at the Ocean, Clacton Pier, in June 1950, which lasted for three months. Hancock appeared in the "Red Riding Hood" pantomime at the Theatre Royal Nottingham in 1950, playing Jolly Jenkins, the Baron's page.
Hancock played the tutor (or foil) to the nominal star, a ventriloquist's dummy from 1951-52 on one series beginning on August 3, 1951. His appearance in this radio show brought him national recognition, as well as a catchphrase: "Flippin' Kids" was a word he used often in the show. "British parlance became very popular." He began to make regular appearances on BBC Television's light entertainment program Kaleidoscope, and he almost appeared in his own series authored by Larry Stephens, Hancock's best man at his first wedding. Hancock's Half Hour, a eponymous BBC radio show, was given to him in 1954.