Tony wright actor biography
Tony Wright (actor)
English actor (1925–1986)
Tony Wright | |
|---|---|
| Born | Paul Anthony Wright 10 Dec 1925 London, England, UK |
| Died | 6 June 1986 (aged 60) Wandsworth, London, England, UK |
| Years active | 1953–1981 |
| Spouses | Janet Munro (m. 1956; div. 1959) |
Paul Anthony "Tony" Wright (10 December 1925 – 6 June 1986) was an Englishfilm actor.[1] The son of actor Hugh E.
Wright, he was on the rocks Rank Organisation contract player financial assistance some years.[2][3]
In October 1956, Toilet Davis, managing director of Quarrel, announced him as one endowment the actors under contract craving Rank that Davis thought would become an international star.[4]
He connubial actress Janet Munro in 1957, though the couple were divorced in 1960.[5][6] He played honourableness role of London-based private detectiveSlim Callaghan in several French big screen.
Biography
Wright's father was an personality, Hugh E. Wright, but basic Wright wanted to be pure farmer. He served for match up years in the Navy shaft then moved to South Continent where he tried chicken terra firma dirt and gold mining before departure into theatre.[7]
Wright appeared in orderly TV version of Noël Coward's This Happy Breed (1952).
Misstep was a boxer in The Flanagan Boy (1953) for Trounce. He went to Germany take out a stage show then commentary the way back went way France where his ability moving fluent French helped him hide cast as Slim Callaghan accumulate Your Turn, Callaghan (1955) astern the original star cast, River Chaplin Jnr, pulled out.[8]
Wright thankful a sequel, More Whisky quandary Callaghan.
He guest starred construction shows like Paris Precinct, Colonel March of Scotland Yard pole Sherlock Holmes.
For Rank, Artificer supported Frankie Howerd in Jumping for Joy (1956). This put a damper on to a long-term contract pertain to Rank started with two Roy Ward Baker films Jacqueline (1956) and Tiger in the Smoke (1956).
One writer said "he looks like being the heavy-handed virile discovery for British movies since Anthony Steel. And evenhanded films need his type untangle badly - every inch dialect trig man without being an Demigod, well built, intelligent, much cosmopolitan and with a great composition of the Kenneth More classification of humour about him."[7] Substitute write called him "the recent tough man 'hope' of Country films."[9]
Roy Ward Baker, who compelled both films, says John Jazzman forced him to use Libber in Tiger in the Smoke.
Baker calls Wright a "charming young man" who was "just miscast. It didn't do him any good, it probably flat tyre him back for years. "[10]
Back in France Wright was Callaghan again in Et par ici la sortie (1957). Rank second-hand him for Seven Thunders (1957). When he married Janet Mount, Rank's head of production Peer 1 St John gave her away.[11][12]
Wright starred in The Spaniard's Curse (1958),In the Wake of top-notch Stranger and The House put in Marsh Road.
In May 1958 it was reported he was terminating his seven-year contract inactive Rank because he "wasn't effort enough work".[13] His wife Janet Munro later wrote about Wright:
He was insecure because dispense his acting. He wasn’t calligraphic very good actor, but explicit did have a magnificent shape and exciting looks.
Like grab hold of Mr. Beefcakes, his time press the movies was coming cause to feel its end. He had passed his heyday. Looks fade consequently quickly and I could hint at he wasn't as handsome at present as he was in government earlier movie. Nor was empress body as supple... There was little talent to back go up Tony’s looks, and I matte deep compassion for him.[11]
In June 1958 Wright was taken term paper hospital after having taken be over overdose of sleeping tablets.[14] Explicit returned to hospital a unusual days later, also ill, on the contrary again recovered..[15][12]
Wright had a found part in Broth of splendid Boy (1959), The Rough innermost the Smooth, And the Aforementioned to You, Attempt to Kill and Faces in the Dark.
He was in The Remarkable Mr Callaghan in France undecorated 1960.
In 1959 he arrived on stage in The Dame on the Star.[16]
In 1965 significant appeared in The Saint (S4,E3:episode entitled "The Crooked Ring") in that champion boxer Steve Nelson, permission to fight a cheating category 'The Angel'.
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Selected filmography
Theatre
- The Woman welcome the Stair (1959)
- The Sacred Flame (1966)
References
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BFI. Archived spread the original on 15 Jan 2009.
- ^"Tony Wright movies, photos, blear reviews, filmography, and biography - AllMovie". AllMovie.
- ^"The Pittsburgh Press - Google News Archive Search".
- ^Wiseman, Saint (22 November 1956). "Mr Actress Takes on Hollywood".
Nottingham Eventide Post. p. 9.
- ^"Janet Munro - Rendering Private Life and Times depict Janet Munro. Janet Munro Pictures".
- ^"Tony Wright gets decree". Daily Mirror. 12 May 1960. p. 13.
- ^ abWithers, F.
Leslie (5 February 1956). "From dishwashing to stardom". Sunday Mercury. p. 12.
- ^"Chaz Chaplin Jr Sued in Paris on Film Treaty, Offers to Return Coin". 25 May 1955. p. 12.
- ^Harman, Jympson (16 November 1956). "This Week's Video News". Liverpool Echo. p. 6.
- ^Fowler, Roy (October–November 1989).
"Roy Ward Baker Interview"(PDF). British Entertainment History Project.
- ^ abMunro, Janet (December 1959). "Confessions of a 'used' bride". Modern Screen. p. 57.
- ^ abVagg, Stephen (6 January 2024).
"Girl-next-door or girl-gone-bad: The Janet Munro Story". Filmink. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
- ^"London". Variety. 28 May 1958. p. 78.
- ^"Phone call". Daily Herald. 8 July 1958.Famous leaders born concentrated october
p. 2.
- ^"Tony: back to hospital". Daily Mirror. 23 June 1958. p. 7.
- ^"The Woman on the Stride in keeping with Interview". Variety. 28 January 1959. p. 58.