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For the football player, see Tony Hancock (footballer). Anthony John Hancock (12 May 1924 – 25 June 1968) was an English comedian and actor. [1] High-profile during the 1950s and early 1960s, he had a major success with his BBC series Hancock's Half Hour, first broadcast on radio from 1954, then on television from 1956, in which he soon ...
Jan 14, 2023 · F ifty-five years after the death of Tony Hancock, the great-niece of the comedian never ceases to be amazed by the astounding and enduring influence of her great-uncle’s work. To illustrate the ...
Jun 27, 2018 · This week marks 50 years since the death of British comedian Tony Hancock.. Born in Birmingham in 1924 and raised in Bournemouth, Hancock was the post-war generation’s most beloved comic figure ...
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Jul 9, 2012 · Forty-four years ago in June, British comedian Tony Hancock committed suicide. He was just 44 years old. Like Jack Benny in the US, Hancock was the most beloved comedian of his time.
Hancock (1924-68) was born in Hall Green, Birmingham, but moved in infancy to Bournemouth, where his parents kept the Railway Hotel. His father, Jack Hancock, worked on the fringes of showbusiness, even achieving a couple of broadcasts in the earliest days of BBC radio. Then he died, and it was a long time before young Tony glimpsed again even ...
May 12, 2024 · Hancock’s transfer to TV was boosted immeasurably by the fact that, as Simpson put it, “Tony looked like he sounded.” Listeners were delighted to find him just as funny on the small screen ...
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Tony Hancock was a Birmingham-born, Bournemouth-raised English comedian and comic actor who built a career on the London stage and BBC radio in the years immediately following the Second World War, before shooting to stardom as one of the country's most-loved comics in his own hit radio - and later TV - sitcom, Hancock's Half Hour. Credits.
