Tony Hancock
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Tony Hancock was a comedian, actor, film actor, and television actor who worked in the English language as a citizen of the United Kingdom.
He was born in Birmingham on 12 May 1924 and was educated at Durlston Court School and then at Bradfield College. Those years of schooling preceded a career that spanned comedy, film, and television performance.
Hancock died in Sydney in June 1968, at the age of forty-four. The Library of Congress records him under the authorized label "Hancock, Tony, 1924-1968."
Quotes by Tony Hancock
It’s red hot, mate. I hate to think of this sort of book getting in the wrong hands. As soon as I’ve finished this, I shall recommend they ban it.
It’s both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.
Nobody will ever know I existed. Nothing to leave behind me. Nothing to pass on. Nobody to mourn me. That’s the bitterest blow of all.
Nobody will ever know I existed. Nothing to leave behind me. Nothing to pass on. Nobody to mourn me. That's the bitterest blow of all.
He ended up on his own. I thought, he's got rid of everybody else, he's going to get rid of himself and he did." "Things just seemed to go too wrong too many times.
So I turned these sort of deficiencies into a, a workable thing if you understand what I mean.
