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
Also known As
Antony Newley
Anthony George Newley
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
as Artful Dodger
1956
as LCpl. 'Spider' Webb
1987
as Captain Manzini
1967
as Matthew Mugg
1955
as Marine Clarke
2012
as Self (archive footage)
1977
as Self
1963
as Sammy 'Lee' Leeman
1968
as Charlie Blake
1957
as Edward
1969
as Heironymous Merkin
1958
as Ernesto
1975
as Sweeney
1960
as Bert Harris
1959
as Cpl. Stokes
1959
as Hooky Hook
1959
as Jeep Jackson
1958
as Private "Tiger" Noakes
1975
as Daniel Quilp
1947
as Dusty Bates
1953
as Bob Twigg
1990
as Dabney Mayhew
1956
as Pedro
1959
as Johnnie
1949
as Charlie Ritchie
1957
as Miguel
1948
as Dick Bultitude
2022
as archive footage
1990
as Alfred Bancroft
1985
as Tommy T
1960
as Dr Newcombe
1955
as Fred Starling
1959
as Freddy
1957
as Roger Endicott
1953
1960
as Dickie Bird
1949
as Jimmy Knowles
1956
as Radio Operator, Tairoa, Prisoner on Admiral Graf Spee
1954
as Tommy
1986
as Trevor Peacock
1957
as Maurice Milbrau
1966
as Anthony Armstrong Fitz-Faversham
1956
as Cyril Gaskin
1948
as Miles Minor
1949
as Dudley
1983
as Wilson Mahoney
1986
as Victor Coles
1954
as Bob Baden
1955
as Engineer, X2
1944
as Boy in English Camp (uncredited)
1980
as Himself
1950
as Operator (uncredited)
1992
as Sal Manelli
-
as The Ringmaster
Production
1966
as Writer
1976
as Songs
1976
as Music
1971
as Director
1971
as Lyricist
1966
1971
1966
as Lyricist
1978
as Original Music Composer
1978
as Writer
1969
as Original Music Composer
1976
as Original Music Composer
1971
as Writer
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