Tony Britton
Pencil Portrait by Antonio Bosano.
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Tony Britton, who died in December 2019 at the age of 93, was equally adept in both television comedies and motion pictures.
He starred in ‘Don’t Wait Up’ and ‘Robin’s Nest’, and also enjoyed a long career in film and on the stage. My cousin. who works in Hospital Radio, interviewed him when he was playing Sir Thomas More on stage in “A man for all seasons” and found him to be a most charming and engaging individual.
He appeared in numerous British films from the 1950s onwards, including Operation Amsterdam (1959), Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) and The Day of the Jackal (1973). Britton won the Broadcasting Press Guild Award for Best Actor and was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor in 1975 for The Nearly Man.
He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1977 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews outside London’s Cafe Royal.
In 1979, Britton was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical for playing Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady at the Adelphi Theatre.3
From 1983 to 1990, he starred with Nigel Havers and Dinah Sheridan in the BBC sitcom Don’t Wait Up, which became a highlight of his career. His other sitcom appearances included …And Mother Makes Five, Father, Dear Father and as James Nicholls in Robin’s Nest. Britton recorded many audiobook versions of novels by Dick Francis.
In September 2013 Sir Jonathan Miller directed a Gala Performance of William Shakespeare’s King Lear at the Old Vic in London. Britton played the Earl of Gloucester