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Tony Britton

Tony Britton
Tony Britton Allan Warren.jpg
portrait taken by Allan Warren
Born Anthony Edward Lowry Britton
(1924-06-09) 9 June 1924 (age 92)
Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
Years active 1952-present
Spouse(s) Ruth Hawkins (1948 - ?) (divorced)
Eva Castle Britton (1962 - present)
Children Fern Britton
Jasper Britton
Cherry (Hawkins) Britton
Awards Broadcasting Press Guild Award for Best Actor
1975 The Nearly Man

Anthony Edward Lowry "Tony" Britton (born 9 June 1924) is an English actor. He is the father of presenter Fern Britton, scriptwriter Cherry Britton and actor Jasper Britton.

Britton was born in a room above the Trocadero public house in Temple Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire, the son of Doris Marguerite (née Jones) and Edward Leslie Britton. He attended Edgbaston Collegiate School, Birmingham and Thornbury Grammar School, Gloucestershire. During the Second World War he served in the Army and he also worked for an estate agents and in an aircraft factory. He joined an amateur dramatics group in Weston-super-Mare and then turned professional, appearing on stage at the Old Vic and with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

He has appeared in numerous British films from the 1950s onwards, including such classics as Operation Amsterdam (1959), Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) and The Day of the Jackal (1973). Britton won the Broadcasting Press Guild Award for Best Actor in 1975 for The Nearly Man.

From 1983 to 1990, he starred with Nigel Havers and Dinah Sheridan in the BBC sitcom, Don't Wait Up. His other sitcoms appearances include ...And Mother Makes Five and Robin's Nest.


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