Anthony Newley
Acting • Born 1931-09-24 – Died 1999-04-14
Biography
Anthony Newley was born in Hackney, London, England, to Frances Grace Newley and George Kirby, a shipping clerk. He was attracted to acting, after seeing an ad for a child actor in a Fleet Street window. He attended the Italia Conti Stage School from the age of 14 and, two years later, played the Artful Dodger in David Lean's film, Oliver Twist (1948). Newley was called up to the Army for his National Service and, by the late 1950s, had a hit song Idol on Parade (1959), while in the movie of the same name. He married his first wife, Tiller Girl Ann Lynn in 1956 but it was a rocky marriage and they divorced in 1963. He was in the pop charts seven times in 1960, twice at Number One with "Why?" and "Do You Mind?" written by Lionel Bart. In 1961, he collaborated with Leslie Bricusse on the hit stage show, Stop the World: I Want to Get Off (1966). After long runs in London and on Broadway, it was made into a film, starring Millicent Martin, with the hit song "What Kind of Fool Am I?".
Filmography
92 credits
Oliver Twist
Movie • 1948
Artful Dodger
X: The Unknown
Movie • 1956
LCpl. 'Spider' Webb
The Garbage Pail Kids Movie
Movie • 1987
Captain Manzini
Doctor Dolittle
Movie • 1967
Matthew Mugg
The Cockleshell Heroes
Movie • 1955
Marine Clarke
David Bowie & The Story of Ziggy Stardust
Movie • 2012
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles Forever
Movie • 1977
Self
The Small World of Sammy Lee
Movie • 1963
Sammy 'Lee' Leeman
Sweet November
Movie • 1968
Charlie Blake
How to Murder a Rich Uncle
Movie • 1957
Edward
Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?
Movie • 1969
Heironymous Merkin
The Man Inside
Movie • 1958
Ernesto
It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
Movie • 1975
Sweeney
Jazz Boat
Movie • 1960
Bert Harris
The Bandit Of Zhobe
Movie • 1959
Cpl. Stokes
Killers of Kilimanjaro
Movie • 1959
Hooky Hook
Idol on Parade
Movie • 1959
Jeep Jackson
Tank Force!
Movie • 1958
Private "Tiger" Noakes
The Old Curiosity Shop
Movie • 1975
Daniel Quilp
The Adventures of Dusty Bates
Movie • 1947
Dusty Bates
Those People Next Door
Movie • 1953
Bob Twigg
Polly: Comin' Home!
Movie • 1990
Dabney Mayhew
Happy Birthday, Las Vegas
Movie • 1977
Port Afrique
Movie • 1956
Pedro
The Heart of a Man
Movie • 1959
Johnnie
A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
Movie • 1949
Charlie Ritchie
Fire Down Below
Movie • 1957
Miguel
Vice Versa
Movie • 1948
Dick Bultitude
This Is Joan Collins
Movie • 2022
archive footage
Coins in the Fountain
Movie • 1990
Alfred Bancroft
Blade in Hong Kong
Movie • 1985
Tommy T
In the Nick
Movie • 1960
Dr Newcombe
The Blue Peter
Movie • 1955
Fred Starling
The Lady is a Square
Movie • 1959
Freddy
High Flight
Movie • 1957
Roger Endicott
Top of the Form
Movie • 1953
Percy
Let's Get Married
Movie • 1960
Dickie Bird
Don't Ever Leave Me
Movie • 1949
Jimmy Knowles
The Battle of the River Plate
Movie • 1956
Radio Operator, Tairoa, Prisoner on Admiral Graf Spee
Up to His Neck
Movie • 1954
Tommy
Stagecoach
Movie • 1986
Trevor Peacock
The Good Companions
Movie • 1957
Maurice Milbrau
Lucy in London
Movie • 1966
Anthony Armstrong Fitz-Faversham
The Last Man to Hang
Movie • 1956
Cyril Gaskin
The Guinea Pig
Movie • 1948
Miles Minor
Vote for Huggett
Movie • 1949
Dudley
Malibu
Movie • 1983
Wilson Mahoney
Outrage!
Movie • 1986
Victor Coles
The Weak and the Wicked
Movie • 1954
Bob Baden
Above Us the Waves
Movie • 1955
Engineer, X2
Henry V
Movie • 1944
Boy in English Camp (uncredited)
Linda in Wonderland
Movie • 1980
Himself
Highly Dangerous
Movie • 1950
Operator (uncredited)
Boris and Natasha
Movie • 1992
Sal Manelli
Emmett Kelly Jr.'s Circus
Movie
The Ringmaster
Dors: The Other Diana
Movie • 1990
Blondes: Diana Dors
Movie • 1999
self
Jack of What Trade?
Movie • 1952
Mike Edwards
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Insp. Frost
Magnum, P.I.
TV • 1980
Peter Riddley-Smythe
Fame
TV • 1982
Simon & Simon
TV • 1981
The Merv Griffin Show
TV • 1962
Self
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1985
Phil Halloran
Hart to Hart
TV • 1979
The Hollywood Palace
TV • 1964
Self - Host
The Don Knotts Show
TV • 1970
Self
Pebble Mill
TV • 1991
Self
The Strange World of Gurney Slade
TV • 1960
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
TV • 1956
Ned
Stryker of the Yard
TV • 1961
The Anthony Newley Show
TV • 1960
Style Challenge
TV • 1996
Cher
TV • 1975
Self
Alice in Wonderland
TV • 1985
Mad Hatter
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
CBS Library
TV • 1979
Doctor Doolittle
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
The Upper Hand
TV • 1990
Nick
The Upper Hand
TV • 1990
Nick Murray
What's My Line?
TV • 1950
Self - Mystery Guest
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self - Co-Host
The Carol Burnett Show
TV • 1967
Self - Guest / Various Characters
The Carol Burnett Show
TV • 1967
Self
Legends
TV • 2006
Self (archive footage)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self - Guest
The Dick Cavett Show
TV • 1968
Self - Guest
Madame's Place
TV • 1982
Self
The Lakes
TV • 1997
The Bishop
Gone to Seed
TV • 1992
DI Keet
Anna Lee
TV • 1994
Frederick Slinger