Anthony Newley

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1931-09-24 (68 years old)

Deathday

1999-04-14

Place of Birth

London, England, UK

Anthony Newley

Biography

Anthony Newley was born in Hackney, London, England, to Frances Grace Newley and George Kirby, a shipping clerk. He was attracted to acting, after seeing an ad for a child actor in a Fleet Street window. He attended the Italia Conti Stage School from the age of 14 and, two years later, played the Artful Dodger in David Lean's film, Oliver Twist (1948). Newley was called up to the Army for his National Service and, by the late 1950s, had a hit song Idol on Parade (1959), while in the movie of the same name. He married his first wife, Tiller Girl Ann Lynn in 1956 but it was a rocky marriage and they divorced in 1963. He was in the pop charts se...

Acting

1948

Oliver Twist

as Artful Dodger

1956

X: The Unknown

as LCpl. 'Spider' Webb

1987

The Garbage Pail Kids Movie

as Captain Manzini

1967

Doctor Dolittle

as Matthew Mugg

1955

The Cockleshell Heroes

as Marine Clarke

2012

1963

The Small World of Sammy Lee

as Sammy 'Lee' Leeman

1968

Sweet November

as Charlie Blake

1958

The Man Inside

as Ernesto

1960

Jazz Boat

as Bert Harris

1959

The Bandit Of Zhobe

as Cpl. Stokes

1959

1959

Idol on Parade

as Jeep Jackson

1958

Tank Force!

as Private "Tiger" Noakes

1975

The Old Curiosity Shop

as Daniel Quilp

1953

1990

Polly: Comin' Home!

as Dabney Mayhew

1956

Port Afrique

as Pedro

1959

1949

A Boy, a Girl and a Bike

as Charlie Ritchie

1957

1948

Vice Versa

as Dick Bultitude

2022

This Is Joan Collins

as archive footage

1990

Coins in the Fountain

as Alfred Bancroft

1985

1960

In the Nick

as Dr Newcombe

1955

The Blue Peter

as Fred Starling

1957

High Flight

as Roger Endicott

1960

Let's Get Married

as Dickie Bird

1949

Don't Ever Leave Me

as Jimmy Knowles

1956

The Battle of the River Plate

as Radio Operator, Tairoa, Prisoner on Admiral Graf Spee

1954

1986

Stagecoach

as Trevor Peacock

1957

The Good Companions

as Maurice Milbrau

1966

Lucy in London

as Anthony Armstrong Fitz-Faversham

1956

The Last Man to Hang

as Cyril Gaskin

1948

The Guinea Pig

as Miles Minor

1949

1983

Malibu

as Wilson Mahoney

1986

Outrage!

as Victor Coles

1954

1955

Above Us the Waves

as Engineer, X2

1944

Henry V

as Boy in English Camp (uncredited)

1980

1950

Highly Dangerous

as Operator (uncredited)

1992

Boris and Natasha

as Sal Manelli

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Emmett Kelly Jr.'s Circus

as The Ringmaster

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