Cast & creator
Tony Hancock
Best known for Hancock's Half Hour, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes, Christmas Night with the Stars
Anthony John Hancock was an English comedian and actor. High-profile during the 1950s and early 1960s, he had a major success with his BBC series Hancock's Half Hour, first broadcast on radio from 1954, then on television from 1956, in which he soon formed a strong professional and personal bond with comic actor Sid James. Although Hancock's decision to cease working with James when it became known in early 1960 disappointed many at the time, his last BBC series in 1961 contains some of his best remembered work ("The Blood Donor"). After breaking with his scriptwriters Ray Galton and Alan Simpson later that year, his career took a downward course.
15
film credits
3
television credits
16
1954–2023 · acting roles
7.7
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (18)
Showing 18 of 18 credits
Hancock's Half Hour
1956
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
Harry Popperwell
1965
Christmas Night with the Stars
1958
The Wrong Box
Detective
1966
The Punch and Judy Man
Walter Pinner
1963The Punch and Judy Man
Screenplay
1963
To See Such Fun
1977
Hancock: Very Nearly an Armful
Self (Archival Footage)
2023
Tony Hancock: From East Cheam to Earls Court
Self (Archive)
1985
The Rebel
Anthony Hancock
1961The Glass Box
Self (archival footage)
1985
Hancock's Half Hour: Volume 1
Tony Aloysius Hancock
1957
Hancock at the Royal Festival Hall
Self
1966Hancock at the Royal Festival Hall
Writer
1966
Orders Are Orders
Lt. Wilfred Cartroad
1954
Face to Face: Tony Hancock
Self
1960
The Government Inspector
Hlestakov
1958
Hancock Down Under
Tony Hancock
1972