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Anthony John Hancock (12 May 192424 June 1968) was a major figure in British television and radio comedy in the 1950s and 1960s, known as Tony Hancock.  (Read full article from Wikipedia...)

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The weekend's TV highlights
The Guardian
Hancock & Joan 11pm, BBC4 Ken Stott puts in a compelling performance as Tony Hancock in this repeat of the biopic about the British comedian whose talent ...


Recollections of Steptoe and Hancock
Ealing Gazette
... father and son rag and bone merchants from Shepherd's Bush, also told people about his work with Tony Hancock on Hancock's Half Hour during the 1950s. ...


The Guardian

Simon Amstell, Larry David and the rise of the 'sim-com'
The Guardian
Desperate to break into movies, Tony Hancock was cast as "Anthony Hancock", again, in The Rebel. He did get to be "Wally Pinner" in The Punch and Judy Man, ...

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Gavin & Stacey star thrilled to play Hattie
WalesOnline
... Man Again in the late 1940s and was later to appear in other hugely popular shows such as Hancock's Half Hour, with Tony Hancock, and Educating Archie. ...

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Burnham's attack on party 'elite' reignites Labour leadership race
Independent
Why can't labour elect a white, (non-Jock) Anglo-Saxon,"with perhaps just a dash of Viking" (Tony Hancock) C of E leader, or is that too much to ask? ...

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Daily Mail

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Does anyone else get the feeling that fugitive tycoon Asil ...
Daily Mail
Born in Cheam, Surrey - the fictional locale of legendary radio comic Tony Hancock - the thrusting BBC presenter Jeremy Vine, 45, recalls that Richard ...

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Telegraph.co.uk

The Libertines: unfinished business
Telegraph.co.uk
As well as producing one of the Noughties' finest albums, Up the Bracket, the Libertines — through their references to Romantic poets, Tony Hancock and the ...

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The Sun

Interview Alfred Molina actor
Scotsman
It's been a long time since the Eighties when he played such quintessential Brits as Joe Orton's lover Kenneth Halliwell or Tony Hancock. ...
A nasty turnThe Northern Echo

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Telegraph.co.uk

Doc Brown: rapper to comedian
Telegraph.co.uk
He played me records of people like Tony Hancock, Woody Allen and Richard Prior and I thought they were gods.” Does he mind that everything written about ...

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HoldTheFrontPage.co.uk

Journalist marks 60 years working for same paper
HoldTheFrontPage.co.uk
His love of entertainment writing led to him introducing a new column to the newspaper and over the years, he interviewed stars including Tony Hancock, ...

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Home Cinema @ The Digital Fix - The Tony Hancock Collection
DVD Times
We love film - there's no doubt about it. The Digital Fix has TWO dedicated film sections for all of your cinema and DVD/Blu-ray news and reviews needs. Comprehensive news, reviews AND features written by film lovers and experts.

Accountant jokes and fun: Tony Hancock - The income tax demand
Accountant jokes and fun
Here's a link to a sound file of the half hour radio episode first aired over fifty years ago on 4 November 1956. Tony Hancock receives a tax demand for £14 12s 3d re ten years' back tax. He refuses to pay as that represents 50% of his ...

Liberal England: Tracey Emin and Tony Hancock
Liberal England
Tuesday, October 06, 2009. Tracey Emin and Tony Hancock. What should we make of the news that Tracey Emin is threatening to go into exile in France as a protest against the new 50p tax rate? Sometimes these cases are clear. ...

'Mauve world, green me': Tony Hancock's "The Poetry Society" full ...
David Morley
'Mauve world, green me': Tony Hancock's "The Poetry Society" full script. Episode Synopsis. A poetry evening with a group of Hancock's new avant-garde fiends produces gems of abstract poetry, not only from the group but from Bill and ...

A Hancock In Paris: Tony Hancock's The Rebel
A Hancock In Paris
I suppose it's a question one gets asked a once in their career of fascination. For me, my turn onto Tony Hancock began with The Rebel. I can't tell you how much the film became a source of inspiration to me over the years. ...

Tony Hancock - more than a Half Hour in Winton
Untitled
Tony Hancock - the tragic funny man. Tony Hancock Winton was the first home in Bournemouth of a man who came to be a great comic genius of the 1950's and 60's - and whose name still lives on for the way he captured a very specific kind ...

Tony Hancock: The Definitive Biography | Noise to Signal
Noise to Signal -
Does the world really need another book about Tony Hancock? Hasn't every detail of the lad himself's life been dredged up already? Yes and no, respectively. Although the subject of many biographies since his death in 1968, ...

Tony Hancock Collection, The (8 Disc Box Set) @ EzyDVD
EzyDVD: Today's New Releases
Order Tony Hancock Collection, The (8 Disc Box Set) on DVD online from EzyDVD.

Tony Hancock by drawgood | Famous People Cartoon | TOONPOOL
Newest Cartoons
TOONPOOL Cartoons - Tony Hancock by drawgood, tagged tony, hancock, comedian, caricature - Category Famous People - rated 3.21 / 5.00.

Tony Hancock's The Radio Ham
Southgate Amateur Radio News RSS Feed
Many of us will be familiar with the 1960 BBC TV comedy series 'Hancock's Half Hour' starring Tony Hancock - and in particular, the infamous bungling radio ham segment containing those now classic lines 'It is are not raining in Tokyo' ...

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