
Anthony Newley
Born September 24, 1931 · London, England, UK
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 seven times in 1960, twice at Number One with "Why?" and "Do You Mind?" written by Lionel Bart. In 1961, he collaborated with Leslie Bricusse on the hit stage show, Stop the World: I Want to Get Off (1966). After long runs in London and on Broadway, it was made into a film, starring Millicent Martin, with the hit song "What Kind of Fool Am I?".
Movies

Doctor Dolittle

Oliver Twist

The Battle of the River Plate

Henry V

Boris and Natasha

The Garbage Pail Kids Movie

Stagecoach

Above Us the Waves

Vice Versa

Fire Down Below

This Is Joan Collins

The Weak and the Wicked

The Old Curiosity Shop

The Good Companions

Blade in Hong Kong

Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?

Sweet November

The Last Man to Hang

Dors: The Other Diana

Tank Force!

X: The Unknown

It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
TV Shows

The Merv Griffin Show

The Dick Cavett Show

Magnum, P.I.

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Simon & Simon

The Carol Burnett Show

Hart to Hart

The Ed Sullivan Show

Fame

Legends

Madame's Place

The Upper Hand

The Hollywood Palace

The Lakes

Colonel March of Scotland Yard

Cher

Alice in Wonderland

Anna Lee

Tonight at 8.30

Gone to Seed

The Strange World of Gurney Slade

CBS Library
More Movies

The Heart of a Man

David Bowie & The Story of Ziggy Stardust

Don't Ever Leave Me

Outrage!

The Cockleshell Heroes

Killers of Kilimanjaro

Up to His Neck

Highly Dangerous

Polly: Comin' Home!

A Boy, a Girl and a Bike

The Lady is a Square

Those People Next Door

The Small World of Sammy Lee

The Bandit Of Zhobe

The Adventures of Dusty Bates

Coins in the Fountain

How to Murder a Rich Uncle

Idol on Parade

Malibu

Lucy in London

Port Afrique

The Guinea Pig

Top of the Form

The Man Inside

High Flight

In the Nick

Blondes: Diana Dors

The Blue Peter

The Beatles Forever

Vote for Huggett

Jazz Boat




