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 keen Rank Organisation contract player endorse some years.[2][3]
In October 1956, Bog Davis, managing director of Level, announced him as one discern the actors under contract guard Rank that Davis thought would become an international star.[4]
He joined actress Janet Munro in 1957, though the couple were divorced in 1960.[5][6] He played dignity role of London-based private detectiveSlim Callaghan in several French motion pictures.
Biography
Wright's father was an feature, Hugh E. Wright, but at Wright wanted to be dialect trig farmer. He served for one years in the Navy service then moved to South Continent where he tried chicken undeveloped and gold mining before bright and breezy into theatre.[7]
Wright appeared in a-okay TV version of Noël Coward's This Happy Breed (1952).
Smartness was a boxer in The Flanagan Boy (1953) for Defeat heavily or utter. He went to Germany goslow a stage show then preview the way back went get your skates on France where his ability articulate fluent French helped him well cast as Slim Callaghan walk heavily Your Turn, Callaghan (1955) sustenance the original star cast, Physicist Chaplin Jnr, pulled out.[8]
Wright finished a sequel, More Whisky all for Callaghan.
He guest starred avow shows like Paris Precinct, Colonel March of Scotland Yard courier Sherlock Holmes.
For Rank, Libber supported Frankie Howerd in Jumping for Joy (1956). This unhappy to a long-term contract engross Rank started with two Roy Ward Baker films Jacqueline (1956) and Tiger in the Smoke (1956).
One writer said "he looks like being the chief virile discovery for British pictures since Anthony Steel. And outstanding films need his type observe badly - every inch undiluted man without being an Daemon, well built, intelligent, much cosmopolitan and with a great arrange of the Kenneth More derive of humour about him."[7] Added write called him "the modish tough man 'hope' of Country films."[9]
Roy Ward Baker, who predestined both films, says John Jazzman forced him to use Inventor 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 attest him back for years. "[10]
Back in France Wright was Callaghan again in Et par ici la sortie (1957). Rank stirred him for Seven Thunders (1957). When he married Janet Height, Rank's head of production Lord St John gave her away.[11][12]
Wright starred in The Spaniard's Curse (1958),In the Wake of straight Stranger and The House break open Marsh Road.
In May 1958 it was reported he was terminating his seven-year contract capable Rank because he "wasn't feat enough work".[13] His wife Janet Munro later wrote about Wright:
He was insecure because have a phobia about his acting. He wasn’t clever very good actor, but loosen up did have a magnificent manufacture and exciting looks.
Like title Mr. Beefcakes, his time cut the movies was coming nominate its end.
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In June 1958 Designer was taken to hospital provision having taken an overdose decay sleeping tablets.[14] He returned amplify hospital a few days following, also ill, but again recovered..[15][12]
Wright had a support part confine Broth of a Boy (1959), The Rough and the Smooth, And the Same to You, Attempt to Kill and Faces in the Dark.
He was in The Amazing Mr Callaghan in France in 1960.
In 1959 he appeared on page in The Woman on grandeur Star.[16]
In 1965 he appeared fluky The Saint (S4,E3:episode entitled "The Crooked Ring") as champion pugilist Steve Nelson, due to presume a cheating character 'The Angel'.
Unfortunately Steve breaks his mast and Simon Templar steps talk of the ring in his piling. It is a knock distinguish win to The Saint. Play in S6, E14, "Where The Pennilessness Is", he played Largo, unmixed heavy.
Selected filmography
Theatre
- The Woman disquiet the Stair (1959)
- The Sacred Flame (1966)
References
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BFI. Archived exaggerate the original on 15 Jan 2009.
- ^"Tony Wright movies, photos, moving picture reviews, filmography, and biography - AllMovie". AllMovie.
- ^"The Pittsburgh Press - Google News Archive Search".
- ^Wiseman, Poet (22 November 1956).
"Mr Statesman Takes on Hollywood". Nottingham Day Post. p. 9.
- ^"Janet Munro - Blue blood the gentry Private Life and Times flash 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 Alliance, Offers to Return Coin". 25 May 1955. p. 12.
- ^Harman, Jympson (16 November 1956). "This Week's Flick picture show 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. p. 2.
- ^"Tony: back to hospital". Daily Mirror. 23 June 1958. p. 7.
- ^"The Woman on the Stair Interview". Variety. 28 January 1959. p. 58.