Anthony Newley
Acting
Born 1931-09-24
Died 1999-04-14
London, England, UK
95 credits
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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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Acting
53 credits
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Mike Douglas Show
Murder, She Wrote
Magnum, P.I.
The Merv Griffin Show
The Dick Cavett Show
The Carol Burnett Show
What's My Line?
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Ed Sullivan Show
Pebble Mill
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
The Upper Hand
Legends
Madame's Place
The Hollywood Palace
The Lakes
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
Oliver Twist
Cher
Alice in Wonderland
Doctor Dolittle
The Don Knotts Show
The Battle of the River Plate
The Garbage Pail Kids Movie
Anna Lee
Tonight at 8.30
Vice Versa
Fire Down Below
Gone to Seed
Stagecoach
X: The Unknown
CBS Library
Outrage!
The Strange World of Gurney Slade
Henry V
Sweet November
Above Us the Waves
The Cockleshell Heroes
The Guinea Pig
Idol on Parade
The Weak and the Wicked
The Old Curiosity Shop
Port Afrique
Malibu
This Is Joan Collins
Tank Force!
The Man Inside
Boris and Natasha
Polly: Comin' Home!
Killers of Kilimanjaro
The Good Companions
The Heart of a Man
Other credits
7 credits
Hart to Hart
Simon & Simon
Fame
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Style Challenge
Stryker of the Yard
Peter Pan
Writing
2 credits
Directing
1 credit
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