1990Nominee
Best Performance
Dors: The Other Diana
Tony Bilbow
Actor · Director · Writer
Burnham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
April 17, 1932
Biography
Anthony Bilbow (born 17 April 1932) is a British television interviewer, film expert and writer. 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.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1984Nominee
Best Performance
Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
1974Winner
Best Director
Monty Python & the Holy Grail Location Report
Career Highlights
1963Highlight
Best Performance
Across the Street—Across the World
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Eddie Monsoon - a Life?