Tony Hendra
Biography
Tony Hendra (10 July 1941 – 4 March 2021) was an English satirist, actor and writer who worked mostly in the United States. Educated at St Albans School (where he was a classmate of Stephen Hawking) and at St John's College, Cambridge, he was a member of the Cambridge University Footlights revue in 1962, alongside John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Tim Brooke-Taylor.
Hendra was probably best known for being the head writer and co-producer in 1984 of the first six shows of the long-running British satirical television series Spitting Image, and for starring in the film This Is Spinal Tap as the band's manager Ian Faith.
Hendra died on 4 March 2021 of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
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Full filmography
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001) as Book Publisher
- Miami Vice (1984) as Gordon Wiggins
- The Mike Douglas Show (1961) as Self
- The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) as Self
- Kraft Music Hall (1958) as Self
- This Is Spinal Tap (1984) as Ian Faith
- The Cosby Mysteries (1994)
- Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986) as Hunter
- Life with Mikey (1993) as Cookie Commercial Director
- Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead (2015) as Self
- Belushi (2020) as Self (archive footage)
- Suits (1999) as George Parkyn
- Spinal Tap: The Final Tour (1981) as Ian Faith
- Whatever Happened to Spitting Image? (2010) as Self (archive footage)