Tony Bilbow

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.

Known For

The Comic Strip Presents...

Thirty-Minute Theatre

Dors: The Other Diana

Eddie Monsoon - a Life?

Across the Street—Across the World

All Movies (14)

• Means of Production2008 · as Himself
• Dors: The Other Diana1990
• Eddie Monsoon - a Life?1984 · as Himself
• Look at Life: The Trade Winds Blow1963 · as Self - Commentator
• Across the Street—Across the World1963 · as Narrator (voice)
• Look at Life: Battle of the Bulge1962 · as Self - Commentator
• Look at Life: Tulip Town1961 · as narrator
• Look at Life: Counting Heads1961 · as Self - Commentator
• Look at Life: And So to Bed1961 · as Self - Commentator
• Look at Life: Roses All the Way1961 · as Self - Commentator
• Look at Life: A Hundred Thousand Oarsmen1961 · as Self - Commentator
• Look at Life: Keeping Fit1960 · as Self - Commentator
• Look at Life: Women in Green1960 · as Self - Commentator
• Look at Life: Shares in Tomorrow1960 · as Self - Commentator

All TV Shows (3)

• The Comic Strip Presents...1982 · as himself
• Thirty-Minute Theatre1965 · as A Guest
• Moonstrike1963 · as Squadron Leader Huggins