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style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Tony Hancock</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Tony-hancock.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1f/Tony-hancock.jpg/220px-Tony-hancock.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="286" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1f/Tony-hancock.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="246" data-file-height="320" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Hancock c. 1963</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Anthony John Hancock</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1924-05-12</span>)</span>12 May 1924<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Hall_Green" title="Hall Green">Hall Green</a>, <a href="/wiki/Birmingham" title="Birmingham">Birmingham</a>, England</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">25 June 1968<span style="display:none">(1968-06-25)</span> (aged 44)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Bellevue_Hill,_New_South_Wales" title="Bellevue Hill, New South Wales">Bellevue Hill</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sydney" title="Sydney">Sydney</a>, Australia</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupations</th><td class="infobox-data role"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl 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scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years active</th><td class="infobox-data">1942–1968</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouses</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Cicely J. E. Romanis</div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1950; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> 1965)<wbr /></div></li><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1151524712"> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Freddie_Ross_Hancock" title="Freddie Ross Hancock">Freda "Freddie" Ross</a></div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1965⁠–⁠1968)<wbr /></div></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Anthony John Hancock</b> (12 May 1924 – 25 June 1968) was an English comedian and actor.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>High-profile during the 1950s and early 1960s, he had a major success with his BBC series <i><a href="/wiki/Hancock%27s_Half_Hour" title="Hancock's Half Hour">Hancock's Half Hour</a></i>, 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 <a href="/wiki/Sid_James" title="Sid James">Sid James</a>. Although Hancock's decision to cease working with James, when it became known in early 1960,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> disappointed many at the time, his last BBC series in 1961 contains some of his best-remembered work (including <a href="/wiki/The_Blood_Donor" title="The Blood Donor">The Blood Donor</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_Radio_Ham" title="The Radio Ham">The Radio Ham</a>). After breaking with his scriptwriters <a href="/wiki/Galton_and_Simpson" title="Galton and Simpson">Ray Galton and Alan Simpson</a> later that year, his career declined. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_career">Early life and career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tony_Hancock&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Hancock was born in Southam Road, <a href="/wiki/Hall_Green" title="Hall Green">Hall Green</a>, <a href="/wiki/Birmingham" title="Birmingham">Birmingham</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but, from the age of three, he was brought up in <a href="/wiki/Bournemouth" title="Bournemouth">Bournemouth</a> (then in <a href="/wiki/Hampshire" title="Hampshire">Hampshire</a>), where his father, John Hancock, moved to in an effort to improve his health, and subsequently ran the Railway Hotel in Holdenhurst Road. John Hancock also worked as a comedian and entertainer.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Hancock's parents later bought the Durlston Court Hotel in Gervis Road and, after his father's death in 1934, Hancock and his brothers<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> lived there with their mother and stepfather Robert Gordon Walker<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He attended Durlston Court Preparatory School, part of Durlston boarding school near <a href="/wiki/Swanage" title="Swanage">Swanage</a> (the name of which his parents adopted for their hotel) and <a href="/wiki/Bradfield_College" title="Bradfield College">Bradfield College</a> in <a href="/wiki/Reading,_Berkshire" title="Reading, Berkshire">Reading, Berkshire</a>, but left school at the age of fifteen.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In 1942, during the <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a>, Hancock joined the <a href="/wiki/RAF_Regiment" title="RAF Regiment">RAF Regiment</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following failed auditions for the <a href="/wiki/Entertainments_National_Service_Association" title="Entertainments National Service Association">Entertainments National Service Association</a> (ENSA), he joined the Gang Shows, travelling around Europe entertaining troops. After the war, he joined the <i><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Reader" title="Ralph Reader">Ralph Reader</a> <a href="/wiki/Gang_Show" title="Gang Show">Gang Show</a></i> touring production of "Wings".<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He later worked in a double act with musician Derek Scott at the <a href="/wiki/Windmill_Theatre" title="Windmill Theatre">Windmill Theatre</a>, a venue which helped to launch the careers of many comedians at the time. A favourable press review of his work at the Windmill was seen in July 1948. "But mention must made of a new young comedian…who with a piano partner, gives some brilliant thumbnail impressions of a “dud” concert party."<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He took part in radio shows such as <i><a href="/wiki/Workers%27_Playtime_(radio_programme)" title="Workers' Playtime (radio programme)">Workers' Playtime</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i><a href="/wiki/Variety_Bandbox" title="Variety Bandbox">Variety Bandbox</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In July 1949, he was praised for his work in the summer presentation of "Flotsam's Follies" at the Esplanade Concert Hall, Bognor Regis.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Christmas 1949 saw him in the part of "Buttons" in the Cinderella <a href="/wiki/Pantomime" title="Pantomime">pantomime</a> at the Royal Artillery, Woolwich.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In June 1950, he opened in the "Ocean Revue" at the Ocean, Clacton Pier<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which ran for three months. At Christmas 1950, Hancock was in the "Red Riding Hood" pantomime at the Theatre Royal Nottingham playing the part of Jolly Jenkins, the Baron's page.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1951–1952, for one series beginning on August 3, 1951,<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hancock was a cast member of <i><a href="/wiki/Educating_Archie" title="Educating Archie">Educating Archie</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in which he mainly played the tutor (or foil) to the nominal star, a ventriloquist's dummy. His appearance in this radio show brought him national recognition, and a catchphrase he used frequently in the show, "Flippin' kids!", became popular parlance. The same year, he began to make regular appearances on <a href="/wiki/BBC_Television" title="BBC Television">BBC Television</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Light_entertainment" title="Light entertainment">light entertainment</a> show <i><a href="/wiki/Kaleidoscope_(British_TV_series)" title="Kaleidoscope (British TV series)">Kaleidoscope</a></i>, and almost starred in his own series to be written by <a href="/wiki/Larry_Stephens" title="Larry Stephens">Larry Stephens</a>, Hancock's best man at his first wedding.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1954, he was given his own eponymous <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> radio show, <i><a href="/wiki/Hancock%27s_Half_Hour" title="Hancock's Half Hour">Hancock's Half Hour</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Peak_years">Peak years</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tony_Hancock&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Peak years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-More_citations_needed_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Tony_Hancock" title="Special:EditPage/Tony Hancock">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a> in this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">April 2017</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Working with scripts from <a href="/wiki/Galton_and_Simpson" title="Galton and Simpson">Ray Galton and Alan Simpson</a>, <i>Hancock's Half Hour</i> lasted for seven years and over a hundred episodes in its radio form, and, from 1956, ran concurrently with an equally successful BBC television series with the same name. The show starred Hancock as "Anthony <a href="/wiki/Aloysius" title="Aloysius">Aloysius</a> <a href="/wiki/St_John_(name)" title="St John (name)">St John</a> Hancock", living in the shabby "23 Railway Cuttings" in <a href="/wiki/East_Cheam" class="mw-redirect" title="East Cheam">East Cheam</a>. Most episodes portrayed his everyday life as a struggling comedian with aspirations toward straight acting. Some episodes, however, changed this to show him as being a successful actor and/or comedian, or occasionally as having a different career completely, such as a struggling (and incompetent) barrister.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Radio episodes were prone to more surreal storylines, which would have been impractical on television, such as Hancock buying a puppy that grows to be as tall as himself. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Sid_James" title="Sid James">Sid James</a> featured in both the radio and TV versions, while the radio version also included regulars <a href="/wiki/Bill_Kerr" title="Bill Kerr">Bill Kerr</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Williams" title="Kenneth Williams">Kenneth Williams</a> and, successively, <a href="/wiki/Moira_Lister" title="Moira Lister">Moira Lister</a>, <a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9e_Melly" title="Andrée Melly">Andrée Melly</a><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Hattie_Jacques" title="Hattie Jacques">Hattie Jacques</a>. The series rejected the variety format then dominant in British radio comedy and instead used a form drawn more from everyday life: the <a href="/wiki/Situation_comedy" class="mw-redirect" title="Situation comedy">situation comedy</a>, with the humour coming from the characters and the circumstances in which they find themselves. Owing to a contractual wrangle with producer <a href="/wiki/Jack_Hylton" title="Jack Hylton">Jack Hylton</a>, Hancock had an <a href="/wiki/ITV_(TV_network)" title="ITV (TV network)">ITV</a> series, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Tony_Hancock_Show" title="The Tony Hancock Show">The Tony Hancock Show</a></i>, during this period, which ran in 1956–57. </p><p>During the run of his BBC radio and television series, Hancock became an enormous star in Britain. Unlike most other comedians at the time, he was able to clear the streets while families gathered together to listen to the eagerly awaited episodes. His character changed slightly over the series, but even in the earliest episodes the key facets of "the lad himself" were evident. "Sunday Afternoon at Home" and "The Wild Man of the Woods" were top-rating shows and were later released on an <a href="/wiki/LP_record" title="LP record">LP record</a>. </p><p>As an actor with considerable experience in films, Sid James became more important to the show when the television version began. The regular cast was reduced to just the two men, allowing the humour to come from the interaction between them. James's character was the realist of the two, puncturing Hancock's pretensions. His character would often be dishonest and exploit Hancock's apparent gullibility during the radio series, but in the television version there appeared to be a more genuine friendship between them. Hancock's highly-strung personality made the demands of live broadcasts a constant worry, with the result that, starting from the autumn 1959 series, all episodes of the series were recorded before transmission. Up until then, every British television comedy show had been performed live, owing to the technical limitations of the time. He was also the first performer to receive a £1,000 fee for his performances in a half-hour show. </p><p>Hancock became anxious that his work with James was turning them into a double act, and he told close associates in late 1959, just after the fifth television series had finished being recorded, that he would end his professional association with Sid James after a final series.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hancock left others to tell James.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His last BBC series in 1961, retitled simply <i>Hancock</i>, was without James. Two episodes are among his best-remembered: "<a href="/wiki/The_Blood_Donor" title="The Blood Donor">The Blood Donor</a>", in which he goes to a clinic to give blood, contains some famous lines, including "I don't mind giving a reasonable amount, but a pint! That's very nearly an armful!"; in "<a href="/wiki/The_Radio_Ham" title="The Radio Ham">The Radio Ham</a>", Hancock plays an <a href="/wiki/Amateur_radio" title="Amateur radio">amateur radio</a> enthusiast who receives a mayday call from a yachtsman in distress, but his incompetence prevents him from taking his position. Both of these programmes were re-recorded a few months later for a commercial 1961 LP, produced in the same manner as the radio episodes. </p><p>Returning home with his wife from recording "<a href="/wiki/The_Bowmans" title="The Bowmans">The Bowmans</a>", an episode based around a parody of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Archers" title="The Archers">The Archers</a></i>, Hancock was involved in a car accident and was thrown through the windscreen. He was not badly hurt, but suffered concussion and was unable to learn his lines for "The Blood Donor", the next show due to be recorded. The result was that his performance depended on the use of <a href="/wiki/Teleprompter" title="Teleprompter">teleprompters</a>, and he is seen looking away from other actors when delivering lines. From this time onwards, Hancock came to rely on teleprompters instead of learning scripts whenever he had career difficulties. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Introspection">Introspection</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tony_Hancock&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Introspection"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In early 1960, Hancock appeared on the BBC's <i><a href="/wiki/Face_to_Face_(British_TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Face to Face (British TV series)">Face to Face</a></i>, a half-hour in-depth interview programme conducted by former Labour MP <a href="/wiki/John_Freeman_(British_politician)" title="John Freeman (British politician)">John Freeman</a>. Freeman asked Hancock many soul-searching questions about his life and work. Hancock, who deeply admired his interviewer, often appeared uncomfortable with the questions, but answered them frankly and honestly. Hancock had always been highly self-critical, and it is often argued that this interview heightened this tendency, contributing to his later difficulties. According to Roger, his brother, "It was the biggest mistake he ever made. I think it all started from that really. ... Self-analysis – that was his killer."<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Cited as evidence is his gradual <a href="/wiki/Ostracism" title="Ostracism">ostracism</a> of those who contributed to his success, such as Sid James and his scriptwriters, Galton and Simpson. His reasoning was that, to refine his craft, he had to ditch catch-phrases and become realistic. He argued, for example, that whenever an ad-hoc character was needed, such as a policeman, it would be played by someone like <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Williams" title="Kenneth Williams">Kenneth Williams</a>, who would appear with his well-known oily catchphrase "Good evening". Hancock believed the comedy suffered because people did not believe in the policeman, knowing it was just Williams doing a funny voice.<sup id="cite_ref-H&N_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-H&N-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Break_with_Galton_and_Simpson">Break with Galton and Simpson</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tony_Hancock&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Break with Galton and Simpson"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Hancock_(1963_TV_series)" title="Hancock (1963 TV series)">Hancock (1963 TV series)</a></div> <p>Hancock starred in the film <i><a href="/wiki/The_Rebel_(1961_film)" title="The Rebel (1961 film)">The Rebel</a></i> (1961), in which he plays the role of an office worker-turned-artist who finds himself successful after a move to <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a>, but only as the result of mistaken identity. Although a success in Britain, the film was not well received in the United States: owing to a contemporary American <a href="/wiki/The_Rebel_(American_TV_series)" title="The Rebel (American TV series)">television series of the same name</a>, the film was retitled <i>Call Me Genius</i> and was not well received by American critics.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>His break with Galton and Simpson took place at a meeting held in October 1961, where he also broke with his long-term agent <a href="/wiki/Beryl_Vertue" title="Beryl Vertue">Beryl Vertue</a>. During the previous six months, the writers had developed – without payment and in consultation with the comedian – three scripts for Hancock's second starring film vehicle. Worried that the projects were wrong for him, the first two had been abandoned incomplete; the third was written to completion at the writers' insistence, only for Hancock to reject it. It is believed that he had not read any of the screenplays. The result of the break was that he chose to separately develop something previously discussed, and the writers were ultimately commissioned to write a <i>Comedy Playhouse</i> series for the BBC, one of which, "The Offer", emerged as the pilot for <i><a href="/wiki/Steptoe_and_Son" title="Steptoe and Son">Steptoe and Son</a></i>. That "something previously discussed" became <i>The Punch and Judy Man</i>, for which Hancock hired writer <a href="/wiki/Philip_Oakes" title="Philip Oakes">Philip Oakes</a>, who moved in with the comedian to co-write the screenplay.<sup id="cite_ref-H&N_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-H&N-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <i><a href="/wiki/The_Punch_and_Judy_Man" title="The Punch and Judy Man">The Punch and Judy Man</a></i> (1963), Hancock plays a struggling seaside entertainer who dreams of a better life; <a href="/wiki/Sylvia_Syms" title="Sylvia Syms">Sylvia Syms</a> plays his nagging social climber of a wife, and <a href="/wiki/John_Le_Mesurier" title="John Le Mesurier">John Le Mesurier</a> a sand sculptor. The extent to which the character played by Hancock had merged with his real personality is clear in the film, which owes much to his memories of his childhood in Bournemouth.<sup id="cite_ref-H&N_24-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-H&N-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Later_years">Later years</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tony_Hancock&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Later years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Hancock moved to <a href="/wiki/Associated_TeleVision" class="mw-redirect" title="Associated TeleVision">ATV</a> in 1962 with different writers, though Oakes, retained as an advisor, disagreed over script ideas and the two men severed their professional (but not personal) relationship. The initial writer of Hancock's ATV series, Godfrey Harrison, had scripted the successful <a href="/wiki/George_Cole_(actor)" title="George Cole (actor)">George Cole</a> radio series <i>A Life Of Bliss</i>, and also Hancock's first regular television appearances on <i>Fools Rush In</i> (a segment of <i><a href="/wiki/Kaleidoscope_(British_TV_series)" title="Kaleidoscope (British TV series)">Kaleidoscope</a></i>) more than a decade earlier. Harrison had trouble meeting deadlines, so other writers were commissioned, including <a href="/wiki/Terry_Nation" title="Terry Nation">Terry Nation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Hancock_(1963_TV_series)" title="Hancock (1963 TV series)">ATV series</a> was transmitted in early 1963, on the same evenings as the second series of <i><a href="/wiki/Steptoe_and_Son" title="Steptoe and Son">Steptoe and Son</a></i>, written by Hancock's former writers, Galton and Simpson. Critical comparisons did not favour Hancock's series. Around 1965, Hancock made a series of 11 television adverts<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for the Egg Marketing Board. Hancock starred in the adverts with <a href="/wiki/Patricia_Hayes" title="Patricia Hayes">Patricia Hayes</a> as the character "Mrs Cravatte" in an attempt to revive the Galton and Simpson style of scripts. Slightly earlier, in 1963, he had featured in a spoof <i>Hancock Report</i> – hired by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Beeching,_Baron_Beeching" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching">Lord Beeching</a> to promote <a href="/wiki/Beeching_cuts" title="Beeching cuts">his plan to reduce railway mileage</a> in advertisements. Hancock reportedly wanted to be paid what Beeching was paid annually – £34,000; he was offered half that amount for his services.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Hancock continued to make regular appearances on British television until 1967, including a 50-minute show for BBC2 from the Royal Festival Hall, which was poorly received. By then his <a href="/wiki/Alcoholism" title="Alcoholism">alcoholism</a> was seriously affecting his performances. Two unsuccessful variety series for <a href="/wiki/ABC_Weekend_TV" title="ABC Weekend TV">ABC Weekend TV</a>, <i>The Blackpool Show</i> (1966) and <i>Hancock's</i> (1967), were his last work for British television. He tried a role in a Disney film – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Bullwhip_Griffin" title="The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin">The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin</a></i> – but was sacked after reportedly having trouble with the mock-Shakespearian dialogue. He collapsed with a liver attack on 1 January 1967 and was told he would die within three months if he continued drinking.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In December 1967, while recovering from a broken rib from a drunken fall, he became ill with <a href="/wiki/Pneumonia" title="Pneumonia">pneumonia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His final television appearances were in Australia under a contract to make a 13-part series for the <a href="/wiki/Seven_Network" title="Seven Network">Seven Network</a>. However, after arriving in Australia in March 1968, he completed only three programmes before his death and they remained unaired for nearly four years. These shows are the only existing television footage of him in colour, as all his previous shows had been made for black-and-white television. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tony_Hancock&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In June 1950 Hancock married Cicely Romanis,<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a <a href="/wiki/Lanvin_(clothing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lanvin (clothing)">Lanvin</a> model,<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> after a brief courtship. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Freddie_Ross_Hancock" title="Freddie Ross Hancock">Freddie Ross</a> worked as his publicist from 1954 and became more involved in his life, eventually becoming his mistress. He divorced Cicely in 1965 and married Ross in December of that year.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This second marriage was short-lived. During these years Hancock was also involved with <a href="/wiki/Joan_Le_Mesurier" title="Joan Le Mesurier">Joan Le Mesurier</a> (née Malin), the new wife of actor <a href="/wiki/John_Le_Mesurier" title="John Le Mesurier">John Le Mesurier</a>, Hancock's best friend and a regular supporting character-actor from his television series. Joan was later to describe the relationship in her book <i>Lady Don't Fall Backwards</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> including the claim that her husband readily forgave the affair; he is quoted as saying that if it had been anyone else he would not have understood it, but with Tony Hancock it made sense. In July 1966 Freddie took an overdose but survived. Arriving in <a href="/wiki/Blackpool" title="Blackpool">Blackpool</a> to record an edition of his variety series, Hancock was met by pressmen asking about his wife's attempted <a href="/wiki/Suicide" title="Suicide">suicide</a>. The final dissolution of the marriage took place a few days before Hancock's own suicide.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Cicely developed her own problems with alcohol and died from a fall in 1969, the year after the death of her former husband. Freddie Hancock survived her broken marriage and resumed her career as a prominent publicist and agent in the film and television industry. Based in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> for many years, she founded the East Coast chapter of BAFTA, the <a href="/wiki/British_Academy_of_Film_and_Television_Arts" title="British Academy of Film and Television Arts">British Academy of Film and Television Arts</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tony_Hancock&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Hancock died by suicide by <a href="/wiki/Drug_overdose" title="Drug overdose">overdose</a>, in Sydney, on 25 June 1968, aged 44.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was found dead in his <a href="/wiki/Bellevue_Hill,_New_South_Wales" title="Bellevue Hill, New South Wales">Bellevue Hill</a> flat with an empty vodka bottle and a scattering of <a href="/wiki/Amobarbital" title="Amobarbital">amobarbital</a> tablets.<sup id="cite_ref-H&N_24-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-H&N-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In one of his suicide notes he wrote: "Things just seemed to go too wrong too many times."<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His ashes were taken to England by satirist <a href="/wiki/Willie_Rushton" title="Willie Rushton">Willie Rushton</a><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and were buried in St Dunstan's Church in <a href="/wiki/Cranford,_London" title="Cranford, London">Cranford, London</a>. </p><p>Asked by <a href="/wiki/Van_Morrison" title="Van Morrison">Van Morrison</a> about his relationship with Hancock, <a href="/wiki/Spike_Milligan" title="Spike Milligan">Spike Milligan</a> commented in 1989: "Very difficult man to get on with. He used to drink excessively. You felt sorry for him. 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."<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tony_Hancock&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tony_Hancock_in_Old_Square_Birmingham.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Tony_Hancock_in_Old_Square_Birmingham.jpg/220px-Tony_Hancock_in_Old_Square_Birmingham.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Tony_Hancock_in_Old_Square_Birmingham.jpg/330px-Tony_Hancock_in_Old_Square_Birmingham.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Tony_Hancock_in_Old_Square_Birmingham.jpg/440px-Tony_Hancock_in_Old_Square_Birmingham.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1944" data-file-height="2592" /></a><figcaption>Statue in <a href="/wiki/Old_Square,_Birmingham" title="Old Square, Birmingham">Old Square, Birmingham</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hancockplaque.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d7/Hancockplaque.jpg/220px-Hancockplaque.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d7/Hancockplaque.jpg/330px-Hancockplaque.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d7/Hancockplaque.jpg/440px-Hancockplaque.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption>Commemorative plaque at the foot of the Birmingham statue</figcaption></figure> <p>There is a sculpture by Bruce Williams (1996) in his honour in <a href="/wiki/Old_Square" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Square">Old Square</a>, <a href="/wiki/Corporation_Street,_Birmingham" title="Corporation Street, Birmingham">Corporation Street</a>, Birmingham, a plaque on the house where he was born in <a href="/wiki/Hall_Green" title="Hall Green">Hall Green</a>, Birmingham, and a plaque on the wall of the hotel in Bournemouth where he spent some of his early life. There is also a plaque, placed by the Dead Comics Society, at 10 Grey Close, <a href="/wiki/Hampstead_Garden_Suburb" title="Hampstead Garden Suburb">Hampstead Garden Suburb</a>, north London, where he lived in 1947 and 1948.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2014, an <a href="/wiki/English_Heritage" title="English Heritage">English Heritage</a> <a href="/wiki/Blue_plaque" title="Blue plaque">blue plaque</a> was placed to commemorate Hancock at 20 Queen's Gate Place in South Kensington, London, where he lived between 1952 and 1958.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In a 2002 poll, BBC radio listeners voted Hancock their favourite British comedian.<sup id="cite_ref-poll2002_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-poll2002-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Commenting on this poll, Ray Galton and Alan Simpson observed that modern-day creations such as <a href="/wiki/Alan_Partridge" title="Alan Partridge">Alan Partridge</a> and <a href="/wiki/David_Brent" title="David Brent">David Brent</a> owed much of their success to mimicking dominant features of Tony Hancock's character. "The thing they've all got in common is self-delusion," they remarked, in a statement issued by the BBC. "They all think they're more intelligent than everyone else, more cultured, that people don't recognise their true greatness – self-delusion in every sense. And there's nothing people like better than failure." </p><p>Mary Kalemkerian, Head of Programmes for BBC 7, commented: "Classic comedians such as Tony Hancock and <a href="/wiki/The_Goons" class="mw-redirect" title="The Goons">the Goons</a> are obviously still firm favourites with BBC radio listeners. Age doesn't seem to matter – if it's funny, it's funny." Dan Peat of the Tony Hancock Appreciation Society said of the poll: "It's fantastic news. If he was alive, he would have taken it one of two ways. He would probably have made some kind of dry crack, but in truth he would have been chuffed."<sup id="cite_ref-poll2002_42-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-poll2002-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The last eight or so years of Hancock's life were the subject of a BBC1 television film, called <i>Hancock</i> (1991), starring <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Molina" title="Alfred Molina">Alfred Molina</a>. Another drama, <i><a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Williams:_Fantabulosa!" title="Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!">Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!</a></i> (BBC Four, 2006), saw <a href="/wiki/Martin_Trenaman" title="Martin Trenaman">Martin Trenaman</a> play the role of Hancock with <a href="/wiki/Michael_Sheen" title="Michael Sheen">Michael Sheen</a> as Williams. Hancock's affair with Joan Le Mesurier was also dramatised in <i><a href="/wiki/Hancock_and_Joan" title="Hancock and Joan">Hancock and Joan</a></i> on <a href="/wiki/BBC_Four" title="BBC Four">BBC Four</a> and transmitted in 2008 as part of the "Curse of Comedy" season. Hancock was portrayed by <a href="/wiki/Ken_Stott" title="Ken Stott">Ken Stott</a> and Joan by <a href="/wiki/Maxine_Peake" title="Maxine Peake">Maxine Peake</a>. </p><p>Musician <a href="/wiki/Pete_Doherty" title="Pete Doherty">Pete Doherty</a> is a fan of Hancock and named the first album by his band <a href="/wiki/The_Libertines" title="The Libertines">the Libertines</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Up_the_Bracket" title="Up the Bracket">Up the Bracket</a></i> after one of Hancock's catchphrases. He also wrote a song called "Lady Don't Fall Backwards" after the book at the centre of the <i>Hancock's Half Hour</i> episode "<a href="/wiki/The_Missing_Page" class="mw-redirect" title="The Missing Page">The Missing Page</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hancock is also referenced in the lyrics to the Libertines' 2015 song "You're My Waterloo".<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Paul_Merton" title="Paul Merton">Paul Merton</a>, in 1996, appeared in remakes of six of Galton and Simpson's <i>Hancock</i> scripts, which were not critically well received. In 2014, five of the wiped radio instalments of <i>Hancock's Half Hour</i>, chosen by Galton and Simpson, were re-staged for BBC Radio 4 under the umbrella title <i>The Missing Hancocks</i>, with <a href="/wiki/Kevin_McNally" title="Kevin McNally">Kevin McNally</a> taking the title role. </p><p>Playwright Roy Smiles' play about Tony Hancock, <i>The Lad Himself</i>, was staged at the Edinburgh Festival in 2013 with Mark Brailsford as Tony Hancock. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Recordings">Recordings</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tony_Hancock&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Recordings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Episodes and anthologies from the radio series were released on vinyl <a href="/wiki/LP_record" title="LP record">LP</a> in the 1960s, as well as four re-makes of television scripts; an annual LP was issued of radio episodes (without the incidental music) between 1980 and 1984. Much of this material was also available on <a href="/wiki/Compact_Cassette" class="mw-redirect" title="Compact Cassette">cassette</a> in later years. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> issued <a href="/wiki/Compact_disc" title="Compact disc">CDs</a> of the surviving 74 radio episodes in six box sets, one per series, with the sixth box containing several out-of-series specials. This was followed by the release of one large box set containing all the others in a special presentation case; while it includes no extra material, the larger box alone (without any CDs) still fetches high prices on online marketplaces like <a href="/wiki/EBay" title="EBay">eBay</a>, where Hancock memorabilia remains a thriving industry. There have also been numerous <a href="/wiki/VHS" title="VHS">VHS</a> releases of the BBC television series.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2014)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>While five separate <a href="/wiki/DVD#Region_codes" title="DVD">Region 2</a> DVDs were previously issued, some of the surviving episodes were unavailable until <i>The Tony Hancock BBC Collection</i> (eight DVDs) appeared in 2007. Episodes of the radio series are often broadcast on the digital radio station <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_4_Extra" title="BBC Radio 4 Extra">BBC Radio 4 Extra</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Film_appearances">Film appearances</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tony_Hancock&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Film appearances"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Year </th> <th>Title </th> <th>Role </th> <th>Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td>1954</td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Orders_Are_Orders_(1955_film)" title="Orders Are Orders (1955 film)">Orders Are Orders</a></i></td> <td>Lt. Wilfred Cartroad</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1961</td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Rebel_(1961_film)" title="The Rebel (1961 film)">The Rebel</a></i></td> <td>Anthony Hancock</td> <td>US title: <i>Call Me Genius</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1963</td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Punch_and_Judy_Man" title="The Punch and Judy Man">The Punch and Judy Man</a></i></td> <td>Wally Pinner</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1965</td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Those_Magnificent_Men_in_Their_Flying_Machines" title="Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines">Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines</a></i></td> <td>Harry Popperwell</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1966</td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Wrong_Box" title="The Wrong Box">The Wrong Box</a></i></td> <td>Detective</td> <td> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biographies">Biographies</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tony_Hancock&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Biographies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>David Nathan and Freddie Hancock <i>Hancock</i>, (1969 [1996]), William Kimber, BBC Consumer Publishing, <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-563-38761-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-563-38761-0">0-563-38761-0</a></li> <li>Roger Wilmut <i>Tony Hancock: 'Artiste', A Tony Hancock Companion</i>, 1978, Eyre Methuen – with full details of Hancock's stage, radio, TV and film appearances</li> <li>Edward Joffe <i>Hancock's Last Stand: The Series That Never Was</i>, June 1998, foreword by <a href="/wiki/June_Whitfield" title="June Whitfield">June Whitfield</a>, Book Guild Ltd Publishing, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-85776-316-5" title="Special:BookSources/1-85776-316-5">1-85776-316-5</a> – an account of Hancock's final days, written by the man who found Hancock's body after his suicide</li> <li>Cliff Goodwin <i>When the Wind Changed: The Life and Death of Tony Hancock</i>, 2000, Arrow – an extended, comprehensive biography</li> <li>John Fisher <i>Tony Hancock: The Definitive Biography</i>, 2008, Harper, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-00-726677-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-00-726677-4">0-00-726677-4</a></li> <li>Stephen Walsh, Keith Page <i>Hancock: The Lad Himself - Graphic Novel</i>, 2023, B7 Comics, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781914169991" title="Special:BookSources/9781914169991">9781914169991</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Film_biographies">Film biographies</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tony_Hancock&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Film biographies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Omnibus: Hancock</i> (1985): a BBC documentary which seriously looked at Hancock's life and work, and his legacy. With contributions by <a href="/wiki/Beryl_Vertue" title="Beryl Vertue">Beryl Vertue</a>, <a href="/wiki/Galton_%26_Simpson" class="mw-redirect" title="Galton & Simpson">Galton & Simpson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bill_Kerr" title="Bill Kerr">Bill Kerr</a> and producers <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Main_Wilson" title="Dennis Main Wilson">Dennis Main Wilson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Duncan_Wood" title="Duncan Wood">Duncan Wood</a>.</li> <li><i>Hancock</i> (1991): a <i>Screen One</i> production, broadcast on <a href="/wiki/BBC_One" title="BBC One">BBC One</a> and starring <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Molina" title="Alfred Molina">Alfred Molina</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Williams:_Fantabulosa!" title="Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!">Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!</a></i> (2006): a <a href="/wiki/BBC_Four" title="BBC Four">BBC Four</a> drama about <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Williams" title="Kenneth Williams">Kenneth Williams</a>, featuring <a href="/wiki/Martin_Trenaman" title="Martin Trenaman">Martin Trenaman</a> as Hancock</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hancock_and_Joan" title="Hancock and Joan">Hancock and Joan</a></i> (2008): a BBC Four drama, starring <a href="/wiki/Ken_Stott" title="Ken Stott">Ken Stott</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tony_Hancock&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFOliver2003–14" class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-year-range-abbreviated">Oliver, John (2003–14). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/482568/">"Hancock, Tony (1924- )"</a>. <i>BFI Screenonline</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">10 February</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=BFI+Screenonline&rft.atitle=Hancock%2C+Tony+%281924-+%29&rft.date=2003%2F2014&rft.aulast=Oliver&rft.aufirst=John&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.screenonline.org.uk%2Fpeople%2Fid%2F482568%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATony+Hancock" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">John Fisher <i>Tony Hancock: The Definitive Biography</i>, London: Harper Collins, 2008, p. 289</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">GRO Register of Births: JUN 1924 6d 231 KINGS N. – Anthony J. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">16 February</span> 2011</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=TV+adverts&rft.pub=YouTube&rft.date=2007-05-12&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DJnLyqBtU_F8&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATony+Hancock" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">BBC TV, <i>Ian Hislop Goes off the Rails</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Fisher, John <i>Tony Hancock: The Definitive Biography</i> (2008) p. 439</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Fisher, John <i>Tony Hancock: The Definitive Biography</i> (2008) p. 454</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-30">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">GRO Register of Marriages: SEP 1950 5c 2781 KENSINGTON. 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