Anthony Newley
Biography
Anthony Newley was born in Hackney, London, England, to Frances Grace Newley and George Kirby, a shipping clerk. He was attracted to acting, after seeing an ad for a child actor in a Fleet Street window. He attended the Italia Conti Stage School from the age of 14 and, two years later, played the Artful Dodger in David Lean's film, Oliver Twist (1948). Newley was called up to the Army for his National Service and, by the late 1950s, had a hit song Idol on Parade (1959), while in the movie of the same name. He married his first wife, Tiller Girl Ann Lynn in 1956 but it was a rocky marriage and they divorced in 1963. He was in the pop charts seven times in 1960, twice at Number One with "Why?" and "Do You Mind?" written by Lionel Bart. In 1961, he collaborated with Leslie Bricusse on the hit stage show, Stop the World: I Want to Get Off (1966). After long runs in London and on Broadway, it was made into a film, starring Millicent Martin, with the hit song "What Kind of Fool Am I?".
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Full filmography
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) as Self
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) as Self - Guest
- Murder, She Wrote (1984) as Insp. Frost
- The Mike Douglas Show (1961) as Self
- The Mike Douglas Show (1961) as Self - Co-Host
- Magnum, P.I. (1980) as Peter Riddley-Smythe
- The Merv Griffin Show (1962) as Self
- Simon & Simon (1981)
- Hart to Hart (1979)
- The Dick Cavett Show (1968) as Self - Guest
- What's My Line? (1950) as Self - Mystery Guest
- The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985) as Phil Halloran
- The Carol Burnett Show (1967) as Self - Guest / Various Characters
- The Carol Burnett Show (1967) as Self
- The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) as Self
- Fame (1982)
- Pebble Mill (1991) as Self
- Style Challenge (1996)
- The Upper Hand (1990) as Nick
- The Upper Hand (1990) as Nick Murray
- Legends (2006) as Self (archive footage)
- The Hollywood Palace (1964) as Self - Host
- Madame's Place (1982) as Self
- The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987) as Captain Manzini