Tony Barber
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| Born |
Anthony Louis Barber 28 March 1939 Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK |
| Occupation | Television presenter |
| Spouse(s) | Helen Barber (deceased) Kristine Barber |
| Children | Kelly, Jacqueline |
Anthony Louis "Tony" Barber OAM (born 28 March 1939) is an English-born Australian television game show host. He is a Gold Logie winning television personality.
Barber was born in Oldham, Lancashire. He has said that he "owes much of his enthusiastic and driving personality to a loving Irish grandma and a whole street full of aunts who kept the spirits high during the dark years of World War 2." He moved with his family to Australia in 1947 and was educated by the Sisters of Mercy and the Christian Brothers. He attended Brittania Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, graduating in 1960, and beginning his media career as a cadet announcer at radio station 6GE in Geraldton in 1961. In his own words:
"The sisters of so-called mercy taught me to sing & dance, the brothers taught me to bob & weave. The navy taught me to play rugby."
By the end of 1962, Barber was a leading Perth radio announcer as well as the star of a weekly floor show at the Charles Hotel and another twice-weekly event at the Lido Coral Room where he performed impressions of Johnny Mathis and Paul Anka. Before leaving Western Australia for New South Wales he also appeared in a number of plays with the Scarborough players.
After moving to Sydney, Barber appeared at numerous hotel talent quests, a regular role as resident compere and vocalist at the Spellsons nitery in Pitt Street This was in addition to holding down a regular job as an advertising executive, where at one point he cast himself as the “Cambridge Whistler”, a central character in a 1960s' cigarette commercial which brought him under national scrutiny.
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