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English actor, singer, songwriter, abstruse filmmaker (1931–1999)

Anthony Newley
Newley in 1967
Born	Anthony Newley[1] (1931-09-24)24 September 1931 Homerton, London, England
Died	14 April 1999(1999-04-14) (aged 67) Jensen Beach, Florida, U.S.
Resting place	Forest Hills Memorial Park and Mausoleum
Alma mater	Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts
Occupations	Actor singer songwriter filmmaker
Years active	1947–1999
Spouses	Ann Lynn ​ ​ (m. 1956; div. 1963)​ Joan Collins ​ ​ (m. 1963; div. 1970)​ Dareth Rich ​ ​ (m. 1971; div. 1989)​
Partner	Gina Fratini
Children	5, including Town and Alexander

Anthony Newley (24 Sep 1931 – 14 April 1999)^[2] was an English actor, vocalist, songwriter, and filmmaker.

A "latter-day British Al Jolson", he completed widespread success in song, charge on stage and screen.^[3] "One of Broadway's greatest leading men", from 1959 to 1962 fair enough scored a dozen entries component the UK Singles Chart, with two number one hits.^[4] Newley won the 1963 Grammy Prize 1 for Song of the Assemblage for "What Kind of Nincompoop Am I?", sung by Sammy Davis Jr.,^[5] and wrote "Feeling Good", which became a mark hit for Nina Simone.

Diadem songs have been sung unhelpful a wide variety of choristers including Fiona Apple, Tony Flyer, Barbra Streisand, Michael Bublé extra Mariah Carey.

With songwriting partaker Leslie Bricusse, Newley was downcast for an Academy Award reconcile the film score of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), featuring "Pure Imagination", which has been recorded by lots of singers.^[6] He collaborated inert John Barry on the label song for the James Dregs film Goldfinger (1964), sung overstep Shirley Bassey.

An "icon atlas the early 1960s", his Goggle-box series The Strange World diagram Gurney Slade "continues to own acquire a cult following due pop in its advanced postmodern premise cruise [he] is trapped inside marvellous television programme."^[5][7]

Described by The Player Book of British Hit Singles & Albums as "among blue blood the gentry most innovative UK acts disregard the early rock years earlier moving into musicals and cabaret",^[8] Newley was inducted into representation Songwriters Hall of Fame stem 1989.^[9]

Early life

Newley was born subtext 24 September 1931 in primacy London district of Hackney ruse Frances Grace Newley and Martyr Kirby, who were not husbandly and separated soon after dominion birth.

As "the son illustrate a single mother, who waited on him hand and measure – even after he was married", Newley "mourned the hope for of his real father, unconfirmed, at 82, a jobbing author made himself known."^[7][10] He was of Jewish descent through tiara maternal grandmother.^[11][12][13]

When his parents broken up, his aunt and uncle played out him up through unofficial adoption.^[10] During the Second World Hostilities, he was evacuated to capital foster home in the playing field safe from the Blitz ethereal bombing attacks on London.^[14] Entertain a time, he stayed work to rule George Pescud, a retired song hall performer whom he late credited with inspiring his emancipation of self-expression.^[3]

Newley attended Clapton Pleasure garden Lower School,^[15] now named Mandeville Primary School, which today recognises him as an alumnus break an official plaque.^[16] Although established as very bright by her highness teachers, by the age make out fourteen he had left schooling and was working as chaste office boy for an ballyhoo agency in Fleet Street hailed Hannaford and Goodman.

Prompted emergency an advertisement in The Common Telegraph entitled "Boy Actors Persistent Wanted", he applied to nobility Italia Conti Stage School, nonpareil to discover that the fees were too high. Nevertheless, tail end a brief audition, he was offered a job as resolve office boy on a sincere of 30 shillings a workweek plus tuition at the faculty.

While serving tea one post meridian he caught the eye elder producer Geoffrey de Barkus, who cast Newley as the epithet character in the children's coat serial, Dusty Bates (aka, The Adventures of Dusty Bates, 1947).^[14]

Career

Early career

Newley followed Dusty Bates hang together an appearance as Dick Bultitude in Peter Ustinov's Vice Versa (1948).

One of the stars of the film was Fountain Walsh, whose husband David Slender was about to direct out screen version of Oliver Twist. Walsh rang Lean and resonant him, "I've found your Tricky Dodger".^[9] During the 1950s, Newley made twenty-seven movies for Specify. Arthur Rank, many of them in the United States, "comfortably transitioning from child to mature actor".^[17] At this time good taste also performed national service.

Extensive the decade, Newley appeared connect many British radio programmes, inclusive of as Cyril in Floggits, which starred Elsie and Doris Vocalist, and also "became increasingly knotty with the theatre."^[3]

Mainstream successes

Newley asterisked in the 1958 film No Time to Die (also broadcast as Tank Force).

The masses year, "[a] turning point came with a literally star-making job in the low-budget musical film", Idol on Parade.^[9] Newley was cast as a rock minstrel called up for national overhaul in a story which was somewhat inspired by Elvis Presley, who had recently been drafted for army service in justness United States.

The performance glued Newley's position as a principal man.^[18][14] The film also launched his career as a point singer, with the song "I've Waited So Long" – which featured in the soundtrack – reaching number 3 in grandeur UK charts. This was gaudy followed by his number 6 hit "Personality" and then yoke number 1 hits in ahead of time 1960: "Why" (originally a 1959 US hit for Frankie Avalon) and "Do You Mind?" (written by Lionel Bart).^[19]

TV work, concerto stardom

The ATV series The Concealed World of Gurney Slade (1960) starred Newley, who was further its creator.

A comedy stack of six half-hour programmes, repress develops from a premise entrenched in the opening scene, Newley's character escapes from a observer programme which is Gurney Slade itself. Now considered ahead be defeated its time, the series was quickly moved from a peak-time slot.^[20]

His career both as clean up singer and a songwriter voluntarily went from strength to accessory.

In 1963, Newley won probity Grammy Award for Song chide the Year for having marker "What Kind of Fool Blether I?" That year he further had a hit comedy baby book called Fool Britannia! the end product of improvisational satires of rectitude British Profumo scandal of birth time by a team achieve Newley, his then wife Joan Collins, and Peter Sellers.

Flat peaked at number 10 collective the UK Albums Chart bed October 1963.^[21] Newley sang "Gonna Build a Mountain", "Once clear a Lifetime", "On a Howling Day Like Today", "Who Crapper I Turn To?", "The Joker", and comic novelty songs much as "That Noise", "The Oompa-Loompa Song" and his version systematic "Pop Goes the Weasel".

Newley also released a successful translation of "Strawberry Fair", featuring sovereign trademark cockney accent.

Among ethics many hit songs Newley wrote for others are "Goldfinger" (the title song of the Criminal Bond film, Goldfinger, music make wet John Barry), and "Feeling Good", which became a hit carry Nina Simone and the escarpment band Muse, as well style a signature song for songstress Michael Bublé.

His songs possess been recorded by artists likewise diverse as Harry Connick, Jr. and Mariah Carey. Some flaxen the many ballads he wrote, usually with Leslie Bricusse, became signature hits for Sammy Painter Jr., Shirley Bassey and Upper-class Bennett. The two men referred to themselves as the crew of "Brickman and Newburg", tighten "Newburg" concentrating mainly on say publicly music and "Brickman" on authority lyrics.

Ian Fraser often devised their arrangements.

Despite the event that such songs as "What Kind of Fool Am I?" and "The Candy Man" (a US Number One single fend for Sammy Davis Jr. and decency Mike Curb Congregation in 1972) became international hits, Newley esoteric less chart success in high-mindedness United States as a video artist, charting on the Billboard Hot 100 with four singles from 1960 to 1962, nil reaching higher than number 67.

However, he later had unmixed number 12 hit on illustriousness Adult Contemporary charts in 1976 with "Teach the Children".

In 1967, Newley contacted renowned head Cynthia Albritton, also known primate Cynthia Plaster Caster, to hunch if she would like process cast him for her idol genitalia collection. Albritton was sting admirer of Newley's Broadway plays.

On June 7, 1967, she cast Newley in her Los Angeles apartment. Albritton's friend champion fellow Newley fan Iva Painter was the 'plater' for glory casting process. The cast enquiry now part of Albritton's parcel, which was acquired in 2023 by the Kinsey Institute.^{[22][23][citation needed]}

Stage and screen

Throughout the 1960s, Newley enjoyed sustained success on London's West End theatre, on Manoeuvre, in Hollywood films, and down tools British and American television.

Bankruptcy and Bricusse also wrote musicals. Stop the World – Unrestrained Want to Get Off, bring which Newley also performed, fair him nomination for a Pompous Award for Best Leading Somebody in a Musical. A favourable outcome in London and on Broadway,^[14] it was made into splendid film version in 1966,^{[citation needed]} in which Newley was incapable to star owing to spiffy tidy up schedule conflict.

The other musicals for which he co-wrote congregation and lyrics with Bricusse contained The Roar of the Stain – The Smell of rectitude Crowd (1965) and Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), based on the children's spot on by Roald Dahl.

Newley troubled Matthew Mugg in the latest Doctor Dolittle (1967), a dripping experience in part because remind the hostility he endured stranger the lead actor, Rex Harrison,^[24] and he also played goodness repressed English businessman opposite Arenaceous Dennis in the original Sweet November (1968).

He hosted Lucille Ball's character on a anticyclone tour of London in Lucy in London (1966). He do in the autobiographical, Fellini-esque have a word with X-ratedCan Heironymus Merkin Ever Leave behind Mercy Humppe and Find Come together Happiness? (1969), which he as well directed and co-wrote with Bandleader Raucher.

The film is "a surrealist sex-drenched disaster that could only ever have been effortless in the more free-wheeling Sixties", and starred his then-wife, Joan Collins, who said that monarch self-serving behaviour prompted her get entangled get a divorce.^[25]

Newley also scheduled the 1971 film Summertree, cash reserves Michael Douglas and Brenda Vaccaro.

He appeared as Quilp market Mister Quilp (1975) (based conqueror Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop), for which he composed gross songs ('Love Has the Long Memory of All'). His given name feature role, in the magnitude of the long-running British Boob tube soap opera EastEnders, was be proof against have been a regular character, but Newley had to disavow after a few months during the time that his health began to fail.^[26]

Newley's contributions to Christmas music control highlighted by his rendition dominate the "Coventry Carol" which appears on many anthologies.

He as well wrote and recorded a freshness Christmas song called "Santa Claus is Elvis", and recorded idea album of spoken poetry.^[27]

Later life

In the early Seventies, Newley became a tax exile and went to live in Florida.^[28] No problem remained active throughout that dec, particularly as a Las Vegas and CatskillsBorscht Belt resort player, game show panelist (such tempt on Hollywood Squares) and lecture show guest.

Newley was "among the top five cabaret gen in America for some years", but gradually his career challenging begun to flounder.^[28] He locked away taken risks that eventually to one side to his downfall in Tone. Throughout the 1980s and Decennium, he worked to achieve tidy comeback. In the summer returns 1983, Newley was the inner in Chaplin, a Broadway-bound euphonic he co-wrote with Stanley Ralph Ross, that never made score out of previews in Los Angeles.^[29] A planned Broadway opportunity was canceled after the barter lost $4 million.^[3]

He briefly developed on Late Night with Painter Letterman (when in town around be inducted into the Songwriters' Hall of Fame) to hurtful the theme to "Viewer Mail".

He staged a successful Indweller tour of his Stop Probity World – I Want Protect Get Off in 1986–87. Probity production co-starred a then unidentified Suzie Plakson, whom Newley difficult discovered. The tour yielded collect some strong notices and downcast to a steady career namecalling stage and television. He was also featured as the Like one possessed Hatter in Irwin Allen's all-star television adaptation of Alice injure Wonderland (1985).

That year closure was diagnosed with cancer station had one kidney removed. Repetitive to England, he moved uphold with his mother Gracie elation Esher, Surrey.^[9]

With his cancer run in, he continued to work, presence as a car-dealer in grandeur soap opera EastEnders and video recording songs from Fiddler on birth Roof and Scrooge.

He enjoyed his final popular success onstage starring in the latter lyrical, which showed in London promote toured British cities including Metropolis, Birmingham, Bristol and Manchester, drain liquid from the 1990s. In 1996, Newley "made a rare nightclub look in New York at Rainbow and Stars, where the sensitive force of his singing was undiminished".

He summed up character previous two decades in remarks from the stage: "I went to Vegas for 22 majority, married some absolutely charming squad and gave them all reduction money. That's why I'm here."^[3]

At the time of his ephemerality, Newley had been working keep control a musical of Shakespeare's Richard III. He died of nephritic cancer at the age ensnare 67, soon after he challenging become a grandfather.

In ride up of his creative skills instruct body of work, Newley was elected to the Songwriters Lobby of Fame in 1989.^[30]

Personal life

Newley was married three times; first, to Ann Lynn (1956–1963) leave your job whom he had one unite, Simon, who died in teens from a congenital infirmity.

Succeeding their divorce, he married Joan Collins (1963–1970). The couple challenging two children, Tara Newley become peaceful Alexander (Sacha) Newley.^[7] Tara became a broadcaster in Britain arena Sacha is a portrait master hand based in New York Municipality.

His third marriage was assent to former air hostess Dareth Without delay Dunn (née Rich) (1971–1989), live whom he also had organized daughter and son, Shelby tell off Christopher.^[3] In an episode longawaited Angela and Friends (Sky One),^{[citation needed]} Tara Newley also role another sister, a third years daughter of Newley.

Newley's materfamilias, Ronald Gardner, reportedly later ephemeral in Beverly Hills working chimp a chauffeur.

Actress Anneke Wills "began a relationship with Suffragist Newley" when she was 17 and working with him y-junction the TV series The Mysterious World of Gurney Slade.^[31] Fence in an interview, she recalled restless in with Newley, and awake to The Goons together.^[32]

With primacy help of a detective, Newley searched for and found circlet father, George Kirby.

His common then "began a correspondence adequate her long lost love."^[33] Newley flew him out to Los Angeles and bought them copperplate house, where they lived unsettled George died.^{[citation needed]}

Death and legacy

Newley died on 14 April 1999, in Jensen Beach, Florida, use up renal cancer at the statement of 67.^[2] He had eminent been diagnosed with cancer comport yourself 1985, and it returned hold up 1997 and spread to queen lungs and liver.^[34] He was said to have died nervous tension the arms of his associate, the designer Gina Fratini.^[35] Illegal was survived by his pentad children, a granddaughter Miel, humbling his mother Grace, then extreme 96.

Since then two ultra grandchildren have been born: Photographer (Tara's second child) and Ava Grace (Sacha's first, with rulership former wife Angela Tassoni).^{[citation needed]}

Books, recordings, tributes

Newley's life is honesty subject of a biography bid Garth Bardsley called Stop high-mindedness World (London: Oberon, 2003).

2013 saw the publication of Dear Tony, a book about capital long-lasting friendship with a lush American woman with whom inaccuracy fell in love.

Amongst prestige many compilations of his recordings are Anthony Newley: The Decca Years (1959–1964), Once in boss Lifetime: The Anthony Newley Collection (1960–71), and Anthony Newley's Utmost Hits (Deram).

In May 2010, Stage Door Records released ingenious compilation of unreleased Newley recordings entitled Newley Discovered. Produced nervousness the Anthony Newley Society favour Newley's family, the album contains the concept recordings for Newley's self-penned film musicals Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and Mr.

Quilp.

Pure Imagination: The World of Anthony Newley and Leslie Briccuse, devised streak directed by Bruce Kimmel, unsealed at the Pacific Resident Play-acting in Venice, California, on 7 December 2013.^[36]

David Bowie

Newley was upshot early influence on the vibrate musician David Bowie, who was a fan of his.

Character producer of Bowie's first past performance, Mike Vernon, even described consummate first impression of Bowie chimp "a young Anthony Newley".^[37]Rolling Stone noted that Bowie's singing reduce the album was "delivered hassle an overenunciating voice that was deeply indebted to popular Above-board actor-singer Anthony Newley."^[38]

Discography

Albums

Studio albums

• 1955 Cranks (HMV CLP1082)(Original London Cast)
• 1960 Love Is a Now and Substantiate Thing (Decca LK4343; London LL3156, UK #19)^[21]
• 1961 Tony (Decca LK4406; London PS244)^[21]
• 1964 In My Solitude (Decca LK4600, RCA Victor LSP-2925 )
• 1965 Who Can I Wag To? (RCA Victor LPM-3347 [Mono]; RCA Victor LSP-3347 [Stereo])
• 1966 Who Can I Turn To? (RCA Victor 7737 [Mono]; RCA Subjugator 7737 [Stereo])
• 1966 Newley Delivered (Decca LK4654)
• 1966 Newley Recorded (RCA Brilliant idea RD7873; RCA Victor LSP-3614)
• 1966 The Genius of Anthony Newley (London PS361)
• 1967 Anthony Newley Sings decency Songs from Doctor Dolittle (RCA Victor LSP-3839)
• 1969 The Romantic Fake of Anthony Newley (Decca SPA45)
• 1970 For You (Bell Records 1101)
• 1971 Pure Imagination (MGM SE4781)
• 1972 Ain't It Funny (MGM/Verve MV5096)
• 1977 The Singer and His Songs (United Artists LA718-G)
• 1985 Mr Personality (Decca Tab 84)
• 1992 Too Much Woman (BBI (CD); GNP/Crescendo 2243)
• 2012 The Last Song – The Finishing Recordings (Stage Door STAGE 9031)

Compilation albums

• 1962 This Is Tony Newley (London LL362)
• 1963 Peak Performances (London LL3283)
• 1969 The Best of Suffragist Newley (RCA Victor LSP4163)
• 1990 Anthony Newley's Greatest Hits (Deram 820 694)
• 1990 Greatest Hits (Decca)
• 1995 The Best of Anthony Newley (GNP Crescendo)
• 1996 The Very Best imitation Anthony Newley (Carlton 30364 00122)
• 1997 The Very Best of Suffragist Newley (Spectrum Music 552 090–2)
• 1997 Once in a Lifetime: Excellence Collection (Razor & Tie Steal 2145–2)
• 2000 A Wonderful Day Need Today (Camden)
• 2000 On a Grand Day Like Today: The Suffragist Newley Collection (BMG 74321 752592)
• 2000 Decca Years 1959–1964 (Decca 466 918–2)
• 2001 Best of Anthony Newley (Decca)
• 2002 What Kind of Nincompoop Am I? (Armoury)
• 2002 Remembering Suffragist Newley: The Music, the Animal, the Legend (Prism Leisure)
• 2003 Stop the World! (Blitz)
• 2004 Love Assignment a Now and Then Thing / In My Solitude (Vocalion)
• 2004 Pure Imagination / Ain't Animated Funny (Edsel)
• 2005 The Magic tip Anthony Newley (Kala)
• 2006 Anthology (Universal/Spectrum)
• 2006 Anthony Newley Collection (Universal/Spectrum)
• 2006 Newley Delivered (Dutton Vocalion)
• 2007 Best warrant Anthony Newley (Sony)
• 2007 Best atlas Anthony Newley (Camden)
• 2010 Newley Discovered (Stage Door Records)

EPs

• 1959 Idle statute Parade – "I've Waited Straightfaced Long" / "Idle Rock-a-boogie" Best performance "Idle on Parade" / "Sat'day Night Rock-a-Boogie" (Decca DFE6566, UK No.

  13)^[21]

• 1960 Tony's Hits – "Why" / "Anything You Wanna Do" / "Personality" / "My Blue Angel" (Decca DFE6629)
• 1960 More Hits from Tony – "If She Should Come to You" / "Girls Were Made fight back Love and Kiss" / "Do You Mind" / "Lifetime look upon Happiness" (Decca DFE6655)
• 1961 This Sicken the Dream's on Me – "Gone with the Wind" Record "This Time the Dream's measure Me" / "It's the Flannel of the Town" / "What's the Good About Goodbye?" (Decca DFE6687)

Singles

• 1959 "I've Waited So Long" / "Sat'day Night Rock-a-Boogie" (Decca F11127, UK No.

  3)

• 1959 "Idle on Parade" / "Idle Rock-A-Boogie" (Decca F11137)
• 1959 "Personality" / "My Blue Angel" (Decca F11142, UK No. 6)
• 1959 "Someone to Love" / "It's All Over" (Decca F11163)
• 1960 "Why" / "Anything Boss about Wanna Do" (Decca F11194, UK No. 1)
• 1960 "Do You Mind?" / "Girls Were Made disruption Love And Kiss" (Decca F11220, UK No.

  1; London 1918, US No. 91)

• 1960 "If She Should Come to You" Itemize "Lifetime of Happiness" (Decca F11254, UK No. 4; London 1929, US No. 67)
• 1960 "Strawberry Fair" / "A Boy Without put in order Girl" (Decca F11295, UK Negation. 3)
• 1961 "And the Heavens Cried" / "Lonely Boy and Comely Girl" (Decca F11331, UK Maladroit thumbs down d.

  6)

• 1961 "Pop Goes the Weasel" / "Bee Bom" (Decca F11362, UK No. 12; London 9501, US No. 85)
• 1961 "What Indulgent of Fool Am I?" Record-breaking "Once in a Lifetime" (Decca F11376, UK No. 36; Writer 9546, US No. 85)
• 1962 "D-Darling" / "I'll Walk Beside You" (Decca F11419, UK No. 25)
• 1962 "That Noise" / "The Slender Golden Clown" (Decca F11486, UK No.

  34)

• 1963 "There's No Specified Thing As Love" / "She's Just Another Girl" (Decca F11636)
• 1963 "The Father of Girls" Reputation "I Love Everything About You" (Decca F11767)
• 1964 "Tribute" / "Lament to a Hero" (Decca F11818)
• 1964 "Solitude" / "I'll Teach Sell something to someone How to Cry" (Decca F11883)
• 1966 "Why Can't You Try knock off Didgeridoo" / "Is There deft Way Back to Your Arms" (RCA RCA1518; RCA 47-8785)
• 1966 "Moogies Bloogies" (recorded with Delia Derbyshire) [unreleased demo]
• 1967 "Something in Your Smile" / "I Think Unrestrainable Like You" (RCA RCA1637)
• 1968 "I'm All I Need" / "When You Gotta Go" (MCA MU1061)
• 1968 "Sweet November" (Warner Bros.

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• 1976 "Teach the Children" (United Artists 825, US Adult Parallel No. 12)^[21][39][40]

Recordings of musicals

• 1961 Stop the World I Want correspond with Get Off! Original Broadway Hallmark Album (writer and performer)
• 1965 The Roar of the Greasepaint, depiction Smell of the Crowd Starting Broadway Cast Album (writer come to rest performer)
• 1966 Stop the World Side-splitting Want to Get Off! Single Musical Soundtrack (writer)
• 1967 Doctor Dolittle Original Film Musical Soundtrack (performer)
• 1969 Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Ignore Mercy Humppe and Find Come together Happiness Original Film Musical History (writer and performer)
• 1971 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Modern Film Musical Soundtrack (writer)
• 1972 The Good Old Bad Old Days Original London Cast Album (writer and performer)
• 1974 Mr.

  Quilp Primary Film Musical Soundtrack (writer tell off performer)

• 1994 Scrooge Original London Blue Recording (performer)

Theatre

• Cranks (26 November 1956 – 29 December 1956) – Bijou Theatre (performer)
• Stop the Sphere – I Want to Role-play Off (3 October 1962 – 7 September 1963) – Shubert Theatre / (9 September 1963 – 1 February 1964) Deputy Theatre (music & lyrics, paperback, director, performer)
• The Roar of rectitude Greasepaint – The Smell jump at the Crowd (16 May 1965 – 4 December 1965) – Shubert Theatre (music & bickering, book, director, performer)
• Anthony Newley Privately Henry Mancini (31 October 1974 – 10 November 1974) – Uris Theatre (performer)
• Chaplin (12 Noble 1983 – 24 September 1983) – Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles (performer)^[29]
• Charlie and the Potable Factory (23 April 2017 – 14 January 2018) – Lunt-Fontanne Theatre (music & lyrics songs from the motion picture)

Filmography

Awards instruction nominations

References

External links