Tony Bilbow

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Tony Bilbow
Born Anthony Bilbow
(1932-04-17) 17 April 1932
Burnham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Occupation television presenter and screenwriter
Nationality British
Genres Television

Tony Bilbow, (born 17 April 1932) is a British television interviewer, film expert and writer.[1] He was a presenter of BBC Television's Late Night Line-Up discussion programme which was broadcast on BBC 2 between 1964 and 1972.

His father was an architect, he was educated at the City of London School, Blackfriars and began writing short stories for the BBC, he was then the anchorman for Day By Day on Southern Television. He was a screenwriter for the 1970s situation comedy; Please Sir! and the spin-off series The Fenn Street Gang and in 1986 was a writer for the BBC soap opera EastEnders. From 1970-1973 he presented the film programme Film Night. Notable people from the film world he interviewed include David Niven and Alfred Hitchcock.

Bibliography

  • Bilbow, Tony (1995). Lights, Camera, Action!: A Century of the Cinema. London: Little Brown. ISBN 0-316-87595-3. 

References

  1. Who's Who on Television Independent Television Publications Ltd (1970)

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