Tony Hendra - Movies, Bio & Filmography

Meet Tony Hendra

★ Acting🎥 7 films📺 6 TV shows📅 1948–2020🔥 1

Born in Hertfordshire, England, UK

1941-07-10 (age 79 at death)

Died 2021-03-04

Tony Hendra (10 July 1941 – 4 March 2021) was an English satirist, actor and writer who worked mostly in the United States. Educated at St Albans School (where he was a classmate of Stephen Hawking) and at St John's College, Cambridge, he was a member of the Cambridge University Footlights revue in 1962, alongside John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Tim Brooke-Taylor.

Hendra was probably best known for being the head writer and co-producer in 1984 of the first six shows of the long-running British satirical television series Spitting Image, and for starring in the film This Is Spinal Tap as the band's manager Ian Faith.

Hendra died on 4 March 2021 of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

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