Tony Hilton

Tony Hilton (1928-1984) was born in Epsom, Surrey on April Fool’s Day, 1928. He took to the boards as a young man and was fortuitous to land roles in two of the early “Whitehall Farces”, Dry Rot and Simple Spymen, where he had the great good luck to encounter a fellow tyro actor, Ray Cooney, with whom he partnered up to write One for the Pot (1961) and Stand by Your Bedouin (1966). Other writing credits included contributions to several holiday pantos (including Cinderella, Dick Whittington and Jack and the Beanstalk) and the screenplays for such films as The Hand, No Place Like Homicide and The Night We Got the Bird, all co-written with Cooney. In front of the camera, he was seen in such series as Meet the Wife, Bold as Brass and Walter and Connie Reporting. He died in Ludgershall, Wiltshire on October 28, 1984.