Tony Walters
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Antony Walters is an Australian actor, film director, and cocreator of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation television series Double the Fist.[1]
Walters met his collaborator Craig Anderson when they were performing absurdist theatre at the University of Western Sydney in the mid-1990s. Bryan Moses, the third member of their team was there at the same time making films. They teamed up on the short film Life in a Datsun, which won best comedy at the 1999 Tropfest film festival, where they met Doug Bayne, another entrant who created casual computer effects. The foursome created Dare TV, a consciously tasteless mock reality show that they sold to Special Broadcasting Service.[2]
They then created material for Fly TV, ABC's digital youth channel, before piloting Double the Fist.[3]
He has also had a strong managerial tie with Sydney's Hard Rock Cafe. Walters rides a hybrid motorcycle and lives in Surry Hills, New South Wales.
[edit] References
- ^ Tony Walters at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ Greg Hassall, 'Fistful of hollers', Sydney Morning Herald (May 20 2004). Retrieved 7 September 2006.
- ^ Greg Hassall, 'Fistful of hollers', Sydney Morning Herald (May 20 2004). Retrieved 7 September 2006.