Tony Britton
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| Born | Anthony Edward Lowry Britton June 9, 1924 Birmingham, England |
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Anthony Edward Lowry Britton (born June 9, 1924 in Birmingham), is a veteran English film and television actor known as Tony Britton. He is the father of presenter Fern Britton and actor Jasper Britton.
He attended Edgbaston Collegiate School, Birmingham and Thornbury Grammar School, Gloucestershire. During World War II he served in the Army and he also worked for an estate agents and in an aircraft factory. He joined an amateur dramatic Group in Weston-super-Mare and then turned professional, appearing at The Old Vic and with the Royal Shakespeare Company on stage.
He has appeared in numerous British films from the 1950s onwards, including such classics as 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.[1]
From 1983 to 1990, he starred with Nigel Havers and Dinah Sheridan in the popular BBC sitcom, Don't Wait Up. His other sitcoms appearances include ...And Mother Makes Five and Robin's Nest.
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- ^ Broadcasting Press Guild official site, retrieved May 5, 2008
