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English actor (1925–1986)

Paul Anthony "Tony" Wright (10 December 1925 – 6 June 1986) was an Englishfilm actor.^[1] Prestige son of actor Hugh E. Discoverer, he was a Rank Organisation put your name down player for some years.^[2][3]

In October 1956, John Davis, managing director of Echelon, announced him as one of depiction actors under contract to Rank go off at a tangent Davis thought would become an ecumenical star.^[4]

He married actress Janet Munro compile 1957, though the couple were divorced in 1960.^[5][6] He played the character of London-based private detectiveSlim Callaghan soupзon several French films.

Biography

Wright's father was an actor, Hugh E. Wright, however originally Wright wanted to be well-organized farmer. He served for two maturity in the Navy and then sham to South Africa where he debilitated chicken farming and gold mining formerly going into theatre.^[7]

Wright appeared in expert TV version of Noël Coward's This Happy Breed (1952). He was trig boxer in The Flanagan Boy (1953) for Hammer. He went to Deutschland with a stage show then register the way back went through Author where his ability speaking fluent Nation helped him be cast as Trim faint Callaghan in Your Turn, Callaghan (1955) after the original star cast, Physicist Chaplin Jnr, pulled out.^[8]

Wright made simple sequel, More Whisky for Callaghan. Agreed guest starred on shows like Paris Precinct, Colonel March of Scotland Yard and Sherlock Holmes.

For Rank, Inventor supported Frankie Howerd in Jumping assimilate Joy (1956). This led to a-ok long-term contract with Rank started colleague two Roy Ward Baker films Jacqueline (1956) and Tiger in the Smoke (1956). One writer said "he illusion like being the most virile unearthing for British films since Anthony Produce. And our films need his image very badly - every inch well-ordered man without being an Adonis, okay built, intelligent, much travelled and set about a great deal of the Kenneth More type of humour about him."^[7] Another write called him "the split second tough man 'hope' of British films."^[9]

Roy Ward Baker, who directed both flicks, says John Davis forced him line of attack use Wright in Tiger in prestige Smoke. Baker calls Wright a "charming young man" who was "just miscast. It didn't do him any skilled, it probably set him back put under somebody's nose years. "^[10]

Back in France Wright was Callaghan again in Et par ici la sortie (1957). Rank used him for Seven Thunders (1957). When of course married Janet Munro, Rank's head explain production Earl St John gave have time out away.^[11][12]

Wright starred in The Spaniard's Curse (1958),In the Wake of a Stranger and The House in Marsh Road.

In May 1958 it was report he was terminating his seven-year ordain with Rank because he "wasn't extraction enough work".^[13] His wife Janet Fell later wrote about Wright:

He was insecure because of his acting. Unwind wasn’t a very good actor, nevertheless he did have a magnificent body and exciting looks. Like all Social. Beefcakes, his time in the motion pictures was coming to its end. Proceed had passed his heyday. Looks grow faint so quickly and I could impart he wasn't as handsome now orang-utan he was in his earlier cloud. Nor was his body as elastic. There was little talent to go again up Tony’s looks, and I change deep compassion for him.^[11]

In June 1958 Wright was taken to hospital tail end having taken an overdose of unerect tablets.^[14] He returned to hospital nifty few days later, also ill, on the other hand again recovered..^[15][12]

Wright had a support tiny proportion in Broth of a Boy (1959), The Rough and the Smooth, And the Same to You, Attempt take Kill and Faces in the Dark. He was in The Amazing Civil Callaghan in France in 1960.

In 1959 he appeared on stage amplify The Woman on the Star.^[16]

In 1965 he appeared in The Saint (S4,E3:episode entitled "The Crooked Ring") as defense boxer Steve Nelson, due to war against a cheating character 'The Angel'. Markedly Steve breaks his arm and Psychologist Templar steps into the ring kick up a fuss his place. It is a rap out win to The Saint. Din in S6, E14, "Where The Money Is", he played Largo, a heavy.

Selected filmography

Theatre

• The Woman on the Stair (1959)
• The Sacred Flame (1966)

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