Tony Tanner
Tony Tanner | |
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Born | Hillingdon, Middlesex, England | 27 July 1932
Died | 8 September 2020 Los Angeles, California, U.S. | (aged 88)
Occupation(s) | actor, director, singer, choreographer, playwright, lyricist |
Years active | 1953–2020 |
Tony Tanner (27 July 1932 – 8 September 2020) was a British stage, film and television actor and a
Career
Training and early career
Tanner graduated from the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art with the Douglas Cup, awarded him by Margaret Rutherford. He spent five years in northern repertory companies, playing everything from Saint Peter to the front end of a cow in a British pantomime.
Acting career
Intimate
All of this culminated in the role of Littlechap in
Tanner went to America to assume the lead role in Half a Sixpence on Broadway, and remained in the U.S. Two more starring roles on Broadway followed: in No Sex Please, We're British opposite Maureen O'Sullivan, and Sherlock Holmes guest starring with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Tanner played Iago to Robert Guillaume’s Othello at the National Sylvan Theater. He had many appearances with top opera companies in the comic roles in Gilbert and Sullivan operas. Tanner's original one-man show Charlatan, portraying the Ballets Russes founder Sergei Diaghilev, was the hit of the New York International Fringe Festival, and went on to the York Theatre Royal and London's King's Head Theatre in 2010.[1]
Directing career
As a director, Tanner staged and choreographed five shows on Broadway — including
Tanner had a theatre company in Los Angeles to present his own written works.
Personal life
Tanner was with his partner and eventual husband, Henry Selvitelle, for 50 years.[2]
He died at his home in Los Angeles, California in September 2020. He was 88.[3][2][4]
References
- ^ "Tony Tanner's Charlatan". EdinburghFestival.list.co.uk. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
- ^ a b Barnes, Mike (18 September 2020). "Tony Tanner, 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat' Director, Dies at 88". The Hollywood Reporter.
- ^ "Tony Tanner, Tony-Nominated Director and Choreographer, Dies at Age 87". Broadway World. 16 September 2020.
- ^ Evans, Greg (17 September 2020). "Tony Tanner Dies: Broadway Director Of 'Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat' Was 88". Deadline. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
External links
- Tony Tanner official website
- Tony Tanner at the Internet Movie Database
- Tony Tanner at the Internet Broadway Database
- Tony Tanner at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
- Tony Tanner at Theatre, Film, and Television Biographies
- Tony Tanner at Theatricalia
- Tony Tanner at the British Film Institute