Tony Bilbow
Tony Bilbow | |
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| Born | Anthony Bilbow 17 April 1928 Burnham, Buckinghamshire, England |
| Occupation | Television presenter and screenwriter |
| Nationality | British |
| Genre | Television |
Anthony Bilbow (born 17 April 1928) is a British television interviewer, film expert and writer.[1] He was a presenter of the BBC's Late Night Line-Up discussion programme which was broadcast on BBC2 between 1964 and 1972.
Bilbow's father was an architect. He was educated at the City of London School, Blackfriars, and began writing short stories for the BBC; he was then the anchorman for Day By Day on Southern Television. He was a screenwriter for the 1970s situation comedy Please Sir! and the spin-off series The Fenn Street Gang and in 1986 was a writer for the BBC soap opera EastEnders. From 1970 to 1973, he presented the film programme Film Night, on which his interviewees included David Niven and Alfred Hitchcock.
Bilbow narrated the English voiceover for the BBC three-part series of the cult East German film The Singing Ringing Tree.[2][3][4]
Bibliography
[edit]- Bilbow, Tony (1974). The Adventures of Jungle Ted and the Laceybuttonpoppers. Imprint unknown. ISBN 0903925176.
- Bilbow, Tony (1995). Lights, Camera, Action!: A Century of the Cinema. London: Little Brown. ISBN 0-316-87595-3.
- Bilbow, Tony (2013). Head Rat. ISBN 1493514954.
References
[edit]- ^ Who's Who on Television Independent Television Publications Ltd (1970)
- ^ Lyons, Kevin (4 November 2019). "The Singing Ringing Tree (1957)". The EOFFTV Review (EOFFTV - The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Film and Television). Retrieved 3 December 2024.
- ^ Worthington, Tim (10 September 2021). "The Singing Ringing Tree". Tim Worthington. Retrieved 3 December 2024.
- ^ "Schedule - BBC Programme Index". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 3 December 2024.