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Anthony John "Tony" Hancock (12 May 1924 – 25 June 1968) was an English comedian and actor.
Popular during the 1950s and early 1960s, he had a major success with his BBC series Hancock's Half Hour, first 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 around 1960 disappointed many of his fans 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 because of his alcoholism.
Hancock was born in Southam Road, Hall Green, Birmingham, Warwickshire, but from the age of three was brought up in Bournemouth, Hampshire, where his father, John Hancock, who ran the Railway Hotel in Holdenhurst Road, worked as a comedian and entertainer.
After his father's death in 1934, Hancock and his brothers lived with their mother and stepfather Robert Gordon Walker at a small hotel called Durlston Court, in Gervis Road, Bournemouth. He attended Durlston Court Preparatory School, a boarding school at Durlston in Swanage (which name his parents adopted for their hotel) and Bradfield College in Reading, Berkshire, but left school at the age of fifteen.
I got this content for Youtube, its very rare and I felt it needed to be shared with the world that loves Tony Hancock. I hope you enjoy it as its Tony Hancocks last works of comedy and so its very special to me. This rare 3 episodes rolled into one is Hancock In Australia. A comical genius that gave laughter to others and inside himself sadness and depression. One of the best that ever lived. So Tony Hancock said: "Things just seemed to go too wrong too many times" Hancock committed suicide, by overdose, in Sydney, on 25 June 1968. He was found dead in his Bellevue Hill flat with an empty vodka bottle and a scattering of amylo-barbitone tablets. In one of his suicide notes he wrote: "Things just seemed to go too wrong too many times".His ashes were brought back to the UK by satirist...
A London department store has had a window broken, so an assistant is told to move out stock in case people try to make off with it. Hancock, passing by, is shocked to see what appears to be a woman undressing in full view of the public. Of course she is only removing an expensive garment from a mannequin. He goes to cover it with his jacket and, not realising there is no glass there, falls through. He takes the dummy into the shop and complains to the manager ( Patrick Cargill ) about the poor service. The manager challenges Tony to work there for one week without managing to lose his temper...
The Wild Man of The Woods by Tony Hancock from the album Greatest Comedy Moments Released 2013-01-11 on One Day Music Download on iTunes: https://geo.itunes.apple.com/album/id-1?uo=6&app;=itunes&at;=10ldAw&ct;=YTAT5060255181881 Download on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=Tony+Hancock+Greatest+Comedy+Moments&c;=music&PAffiliateID;=100l3VM Almost 2 hours of comedy featuring Hancock's funniest episodes including the 'Blood Donor'. © 2012 Not Now Music Ltd ℗ 2012 One Day Music
Interesting documentary sequence which traces the decline and eventual suicide of the comedy legend. Ends with a short tribute.
The Blood Donor by Tony Hancock from the album Greatest Comedy Moments Released 2013-01-11 on One Day Music Download on iTunes: https://geo.itunes.apple.com/album/id-1?uo=6&app;=itunes&at;=10ldAw&ct;=YTAT5060255181881 Download on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=Tony+Hancock+Greatest+Comedy+Moments&c;=music&PAffiliateID;=100l3VM Almost 2 hours of comedy featuring Hancock's funniest episodes including the 'Blood Donor'. © 2012 Not Now Music Ltd ℗ 2012 One Day Music
Sunday Afternoon at Home by Tony Hancock from the album Greatest Comedy Moments Released 2013-01-11 on One Day Music Download on iTunes: https://geo.itunes.apple.com/album/id-1?uo=6&app;=itunes&at;=10ldAw&ct;=YTAT5060255181881 Download on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=Tony+Hancock+Greatest+Comedy+Moments&c;=music&PAffiliateID;=100l3VM Almost 2 hours of comedy featuring Hancock's funniest episodes including the 'Blood Donor'. © 2012 Not Now Music Ltd ℗ 2012 One Day Music
First Broadcast - June 1960. Hancock appears on the BBC's Face to Face, a half-hour in-depth interview programme conducted by John Freeman. Freeman asks Hancock many searching questions about his life and work.
The Radio Ham by Tony Hancock from the album Greatest Comedy Moments Released 2013-01-11 on One Day Music Download on iTunes: https://geo.itunes.apple.com/album/id-1?uo=6&app;=itunes&at;=10ldAw&ct;=YTAT5060255181881 Download on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=Tony+Hancock+Greatest+Comedy+Moments&c;=music&PAffiliateID;=100l3VM Almost 2 hours of comedy featuring Hancock's funniest episodes including the 'Blood Donor'. © 2012 Not Now Music Ltd ℗ 2012 One Day Music
Here's the brilliant Alfred Molina giving his superb portrayal of the Great Tony Hancock a flawed comedy genius who's great talent fell foul of Deppression and alcoholism whocommitted suicide in 1968 Alfred Molina (born Alfredo Molina; 24 May 1953) is an actor known for his roles in Raiders of the Lost Ark, Prick Up Your Ears, Boogie Nights, The Man Who Knew Too Little, Spider-Man 2, Maverick, Species, Not Without My Daughter, Chocolat, Frida, Steamboy, The Hoax, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, The Da Vinci Code, The Little Traitor, An Education, The Sorcerer's Apprentice and Rango. He starred as DDA / Detective Ricardo Morales on the NBC police/courtroom drama Law & Order: LA and as Roger opposite Dawn French in the BBC television sitcom Roger & Val Have Just Got In. The last eig...
John Freeman interviews Tony Hancock in this intimate interview conducted at the beginning of 1960 for the BBC. The camera is so in the face you can see even the smallest facial tick, and the occasional water coming to his eyes. Incredible.
I got this content for Youtube, its very rare and I felt it needed to be shared with the world that loves Tony Hancock. I hope you enjoy it as its Tony Hancocks last works of comedy and so its very special to me. This rare 3 episodes rolled into one is Hancock In Australia. A comical genius that gave laughter to others and inside himself sadness and depression. One of the best that ever lived. So Tony Hancock said: "Things just seemed to go too wrong too many times" Hancock committed suicide, by overdose, in Sydney, on 25 June 1968. He was found dead in his Bellevue Hill flat with an empty vodka bottle and a scattering of amylo-barbitone tablets. In one of his suicide notes he wrote: "Things just seemed to go too wrong too many times".His ashes were brought back to the UK by satirist...
A London department store has had a window broken, so an assistant is told to move out stock in case people try to make off with it. Hancock, passing by, is shocked to see what appears to be a woman undressing in full view of the public. Of course she is only removing an expensive garment from a mannequin. He goes to cover it with his jacket and, not realising there is no glass there, falls through. He takes the dummy into the shop and complains to the manager ( Patrick Cargill ) about the poor service. The manager challenges Tony to work there for one week without managing to lose his temper...
The Wild Man of The Woods by Tony Hancock from the album Greatest Comedy Moments Released 2013-01-11 on One Day Music Download on iTunes: https://geo.itunes.apple.com/album/id-1?uo=6&app;=itunes&at;=10ldAw&ct;=YTAT5060255181881 Download on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=Tony+Hancock+Greatest+Comedy+Moments&c;=music&PAffiliateID;=100l3VM Almost 2 hours of comedy featuring Hancock's funniest episodes including the 'Blood Donor'. © 2012 Not Now Music Ltd ℗ 2012 One Day Music
Interesting documentary sequence which traces the decline and eventual suicide of the comedy legend. Ends with a short tribute.
The Blood Donor by Tony Hancock from the album Greatest Comedy Moments Released 2013-01-11 on One Day Music Download on iTunes: https://geo.itunes.apple.com/album/id-1?uo=6&app;=itunes&at;=10ldAw&ct;=YTAT5060255181881 Download on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=Tony+Hancock+Greatest+Comedy+Moments&c;=music&PAffiliateID;=100l3VM Almost 2 hours of comedy featuring Hancock's funniest episodes including the 'Blood Donor'. © 2012 Not Now Music Ltd ℗ 2012 One Day Music
Sunday Afternoon at Home by Tony Hancock from the album Greatest Comedy Moments Released 2013-01-11 on One Day Music Download on iTunes: https://geo.itunes.apple.com/album/id-1?uo=6&app;=itunes&at;=10ldAw&ct;=YTAT5060255181881 Download on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=Tony+Hancock+Greatest+Comedy+Moments&c;=music&PAffiliateID;=100l3VM Almost 2 hours of comedy featuring Hancock's funniest episodes including the 'Blood Donor'. © 2012 Not Now Music Ltd ℗ 2012 One Day Music
First Broadcast - June 1960. Hancock appears on the BBC's Face to Face, a half-hour in-depth interview programme conducted by John Freeman. Freeman asks Hancock many searching questions about his life and work.
The Radio Ham by Tony Hancock from the album Greatest Comedy Moments Released 2013-01-11 on One Day Music Download on iTunes: https://geo.itunes.apple.com/album/id-1?uo=6&app;=itunes&at;=10ldAw&ct;=YTAT5060255181881 Download on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=Tony+Hancock+Greatest+Comedy+Moments&c;=music&PAffiliateID;=100l3VM Almost 2 hours of comedy featuring Hancock's funniest episodes including the 'Blood Donor'. © 2012 Not Now Music Ltd ℗ 2012 One Day Music
Here's the brilliant Alfred Molina giving his superb portrayal of the Great Tony Hancock a flawed comedy genius who's great talent fell foul of Deppression and alcoholism whocommitted suicide in 1968 Alfred Molina (born Alfredo Molina; 24 May 1953) is an actor known for his roles in Raiders of the Lost Ark, Prick Up Your Ears, Boogie Nights, The Man Who Knew Too Little, Spider-Man 2, Maverick, Species, Not Without My Daughter, Chocolat, Frida, Steamboy, The Hoax, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, The Da Vinci Code, The Little Traitor, An Education, The Sorcerer's Apprentice and Rango. He starred as DDA / Detective Ricardo Morales on the NBC police/courtroom drama Law & Order: LA and as Roger opposite Dawn French in the BBC television sitcom Roger & Val Have Just Got In. The last eig...
John Freeman interviews Tony Hancock in this intimate interview conducted at the beginning of 1960 for the BBC. The camera is so in the face you can see even the smallest facial tick, and the occasional water coming to his eyes. Incredible.
I got this content for Youtube, its very rare and I felt it needed to be shared with the world that loves Tony Hancock. I hope you enjoy it as its Tony Hancocks last works of comedy and so its very special to me. This rare 3 episodes rolled into one is Hancock In Australia. A comical genius that gave laughter to others and inside himself sadness and depression. One of the best that ever lived. So Tony Hancock said: "Things just seemed to go too wrong too many times" Hancock committed suicide, by overdose, in Sydney, on 25 June 1968. He was found dead in his Bellevue Hill flat with an empty vodka bottle and a scattering of amylo-barbitone tablets. In one of his suicide notes he wrote: "Things just seemed to go too wrong too many times".His ashes were brought back to the UK by satirist...
A London department store has had a window broken, so an assistant is told to move out stock in case people try to make off with it. Hancock, passing by, is shocked to see what appears to be a woman undressing in full view of the public. Of course she is only removing an expensive garment from a mannequin. He goes to cover it with his jacket and, not realising there is no glass there, falls through. He takes the dummy into the shop and complains to the manager ( Patrick Cargill ) about the poor service. The manager challenges Tony to work there for one week without managing to lose his temper...
The Wild Man of The Woods by Tony Hancock from the album Greatest Comedy Moments Released 2013-01-11 on One Day Music Download on iTunes: https://geo.itunes.apple.com/album/id-1?uo=6&app;=itunes&at;=10ldAw&ct;=YTAT5060255181881 Download on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=Tony+Hancock+Greatest+Comedy+Moments&c;=music&PAffiliateID;=100l3VM Almost 2 hours of comedy featuring Hancock's funniest episodes including the 'Blood Donor'. © 2012 Not Now Music Ltd ℗ 2012 One Day Music
Interesting documentary sequence which traces the decline and eventual suicide of the comedy legend. Ends with a short tribute.
The Blood Donor by Tony Hancock from the album Greatest Comedy Moments Released 2013-01-11 on One Day Music Download on iTunes: https://geo.itunes.apple.com/album/id-1?uo=6&app;=itunes&at;=10ldAw&ct;=YTAT5060255181881 Download on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=Tony+Hancock+Greatest+Comedy+Moments&c;=music&PAffiliateID;=100l3VM Almost 2 hours of comedy featuring Hancock's funniest episodes including the 'Blood Donor'. © 2012 Not Now Music Ltd ℗ 2012 One Day Music
Sunday Afternoon at Home by Tony Hancock from the album Greatest Comedy Moments Released 2013-01-11 on One Day Music Download on iTunes: https://geo.itunes.apple.com/album/id-1?uo=6&app;=itunes&at;=10ldAw&ct;=YTAT5060255181881 Download on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=Tony+Hancock+Greatest+Comedy+Moments&c;=music&PAffiliateID;=100l3VM Almost 2 hours of comedy featuring Hancock's funniest episodes including the 'Blood Donor'. © 2012 Not Now Music Ltd ℗ 2012 One Day Music
First Broadcast - June 1960. Hancock appears on the BBC's Face to Face, a half-hour in-depth interview programme conducted by John Freeman. Freeman asks Hancock many searching questions about his life and work.
The Radio Ham by Tony Hancock from the album Greatest Comedy Moments Released 2013-01-11 on One Day Music Download on iTunes: https://geo.itunes.apple.com/album/id-1?uo=6&app;=itunes&at;=10ldAw&ct;=YTAT5060255181881 Download on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=Tony+Hancock+Greatest+Comedy+Moments&c;=music&PAffiliateID;=100l3VM Almost 2 hours of comedy featuring Hancock's funniest episodes including the 'Blood Donor'. © 2012 Not Now Music Ltd ℗ 2012 One Day Music
Here's the brilliant Alfred Molina giving his superb portrayal of the Great Tony Hancock a flawed comedy genius who's great talent fell foul of Deppression and alcoholism whocommitted suicide in 1968 Alfred Molina (born Alfredo Molina; 24 May 1953) is an actor known for his roles in Raiders of the Lost Ark, Prick Up Your Ears, Boogie Nights, The Man Who Knew Too Little, Spider-Man 2, Maverick, Species, Not Without My Daughter, Chocolat, Frida, Steamboy, The Hoax, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, The Da Vinci Code, The Little Traitor, An Education, The Sorcerer's Apprentice and Rango. He starred as DDA / Detective Ricardo Morales on the NBC police/courtroom drama Law & Order: LA and as Roger opposite Dawn French in the BBC television sitcom Roger & Val Have Just Got In. The last eig...
John Freeman interviews Tony Hancock in this intimate interview conducted at the beginning of 1960 for the BBC. The camera is so in the face you can see even the smallest facial tick, and the occasional water coming to his eyes. Incredible.
After a heavy night's drinking, Hancock wakes up in a hotel suite with a crowd of strangers as his guests.
Vintage radio comedy, from an age almost forgotten and so old that copyright law can't possibly apply to it any longer
First Broadcast - June 1960. Hancock appears on the BBC's Face to Face, a half-hour in-depth interview programme conducted by John Freeman. Freeman asks Hancock many searching questions about his life and work.
First Broadcast - June 1960. Hancock appears on the BBC's Face to Face, a half-hour in-depth interview programme conducted by John Freeman. Freeman asks Hancock many searching questions about his life and work.
Hancock was clearly drunk when he gave this interview on 'Late Night Line Up' in October 1965. He does however provide an interesting analysis of his own career and gives us his views on the nature of comedy.
....Tony Hancock talks about his break-up with Galton and Simpson....
Part two of Hancock's 'Late Night Line Up Interview' from October 1965.
Only three full episodes of this series, made for Australian television in 1968, were completed. Hancock killed himself halfway through filming. This is a scene in Hancock's flat, as he tries to get to grips with his new surroundings
Here's the brilliant & Beautiful Joan Bakewell giving her excellent introduction to a repeat of the legendary "Face To Face" interview with the late Great Tony Hancock. I have connfined this clip to the intro by Joan Bakewell and the title seqiuence of this Face to Face edition which featured the artist Felix Topolski's fascinating sketches of Hancock.Topolski did sketches in the same memorable style for all the subjects of this wonderful interview series The full Face to Face interview by John Freeman is already up on youtube and available in one of the best ever DVD boxset releases of the complete series which I highly recommend if watching the art of the definitive television interview is your thing. Here's the BBC Genome entry about the programme. First of ten programmes introduced b...