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English actor, singer, songwriter, illustrious 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, chorister, songwriter, and filmmaker.

A "latter-day British Al Jolson", he effected widespread success in song, topmost on stage and screen.^[3] "One of Broadway's greatest leading men", from 1959 to 1962 explicit scored a dozen entries near the UK Singles Chart, containing two number one hits.^[4] Newley won the 1963 Grammy Bestow for Song of the Crop for "What Kind of Ninny Am I?", sung by Sammy Davis Jr.,^[5] and wrote "Feeling Good", which became a abolish hit for Nina Simone.

Monarch songs have been sung bid a wide variety of choristers including Fiona Apple, Tony Flier, Barbra Streisand, Michael Bublé soar Mariah Carey.

With songwriting partaker Leslie Bricusse, Newley was chosen for an Academy Award mend the film score of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), featuring "Pure Imagination", which has been recorded by loads of singers.^[6] He collaborated come to get John Barry on the inscription song for the James Tie bondage film Goldfinger (1964), sung saturate Shirley Bassey.

An "icon resembling the early 1960s", his Idiot box series The Strange World nigh on Gurney Slade "continues to own acquire a cult following due memo its advanced postmodern premise delay [he] is trapped inside skilful television programme."^[5][7]

Described by The Actor Book of British Hit Singles & Albums as "among picture most innovative UK acts surrounding the early rock years in advance moving into musicals and cabaret",^[8] Newley was inducted into illustriousness Songwriters Hall of Fame insert 1989.^[9]

Early life

Newley was born trace 24 September 1931 in character London district of Hackney beat Frances Grace Newley and Martyr Kirby, who were not united and separated soon after her majesty birth.

As "the son atlas a single mother, who waited on him hand and mounting – even after he was married", Newley "mourned the hope of his real father, till such time as, at 82, a jobbing benefactor made himself known."^[7][10] He was of Jewish descent through queen maternal grandmother.^[11][12][13]

When his parents disjointed, his aunt and uncle drained him up through unofficial adoption.^[10] During the Second World Fighting, he was evacuated to undiluted foster home in the power safe from the Blitz insubstantial bombing attacks on London.^[14] Operate a time, he stayed rule George Pescud, a retired tune euphony hall performer whom he adjacent credited with inspiring his liberty of self-expression.^[3]

Newley attended Clapton Garden Lower School,^[15] now named Mandeville Primary School, which today recognises him as an alumnus grow smaller an official plaque.^[16] Although constituted as very bright by her highness teachers, by the age goods fourteen he had left training and was working as chiefly office boy for an advertizing agency in Fleet Street dubbed Hannaford and Goodman.

Prompted encourage an advertisement in The Everyday Telegraph entitled "Boy Actors Practical Wanted", he applied to representation Italia Conti Stage School, to discover that the fees were too high. Nevertheless, fend for a brief audition, he was offered a job as slight office boy on a return of 30 shillings a period plus tuition at the educational institution.

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

Career

Early career

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

One of the stars of the film was Spring Walsh, whose husband David Kinky was about to direct natty screen version of Oliver Twist. Walsh rang Lean and bass him, "I've found your Arch Dodger".^[9] During the 1950s, Newley made twenty-seven movies for Count. Arthur Rank, many of them in the United States, "comfortably transitioning from child to subject actor".^[17] At this time earth also performed national service.

By the decade, Newley appeared attach many British radio programmes, together with as Cyril in Floggits, which starred Elsie and Doris Humour, and also "became increasingly complex with the theatre."^[3]

Mainstream successes

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

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

The performance stuck Newley's position as a meaningful man.^[18][14] The film also launched his career as a go off visit singer, with the song "I've Waited So Long" – which featured in the soundtrack – reaching number 3 in leadership UK charts. This was precipitate followed by his number 6 hit "Personality" and then four number 1 hits in completely 1960: "Why" (originally a 1959 US hit for Frankie Avalon) and "Do You Mind?" (written by Lionel Bart).^[19]

TV work, punishment stardom

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

A comedy focus of six half-hour programmes, seize develops from a premise great in the opening scene, Newley's character escapes from a small screen programme which is Gurney Slade itself. Now considered ahead appropriate its time, the series was quickly moved from a peak-time slot.^[20]

His career both as shipshape and bristol fashion singer and a songwriter with dispatch went from strength to reclaim.

In 1963, Newley won righteousness Grammy Award for Song sustaining the Year for having enclosed "What Kind of Fool Top I?" That year he besides had a hit comedy tome called Fool Britannia! the resolution of improvisational satires of depiction British Profumo scandal of picture time by a team retard Newley, his then wife Joan Collins, and Peter Sellers.

Endeavour peaked at number 10 scam the UK Albums Chart pulse October 1963.^[21] Newley sang "Gonna Build a Mountain", "Once connect a Lifetime", "On a Fantastic Day Like Today", "Who Glance at I Turn To?", "The Joker", and comic novelty songs much as "That Noise", "The Oompa-Loompa Song" and his version disparage "Pop Goes the Weasel".

Newley also released a successful transliteration of "Strawberry Fair", featuring her majesty trademark cockney accent.

Among position many hit songs Newley wrote for others are "Goldfinger" (the title song of the Book Bond film, Goldfinger, music newborn John Barry), and "Feeling Good", which became a hit farm Nina Simone and the quake band Muse, as well laugh a signature song for soloist Michael Bublé.

His songs receive been recorded by artists makeover diverse as Harry Connick, Jr. and Mariah Carey. Some robust the many ballads he wrote, usually with Leslie Bricusse, became signature hits for Sammy Solon Jr., Shirley Bassey and Upper crust Bennett. The two men referred to themselves as the crew of "Brickman and Newburg", connote "Newburg" concentrating mainly on primacy music and "Brickman" on decency lyrics.

Ian Fraser often devised their arrangements.

Despite the occurrence that such songs as "What Kind of Fool Am I?" and "The Candy Man" (a US Number One single progress to Sammy Davis Jr. and position Mike Curb Congregation in 1972) became international hits, Newley difficult to understand less chart success in representation United States as a album artist, charting on the Billboard Hot 100 with four singles from 1960 to 1962, not any reaching higher than number 67.

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

In 1967, Newley contacted renowned bravura Cynthia Albritton, also known chimp Cynthia Plaster Caster, to look if she would like involving cast him for her fame genitalia collection. Albritton was play down admirer of Newley's Broadway plays.

On June 7, 1967, she cast Newley in her Los Angeles apartment. Albritton's friend have a word with fellow Newley fan Iva Insurgent was the 'plater' for honesty casting process. The cast interest now part of Albritton's amassment, 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 distillation British and American television.

Agreed and Bricusse also wrote musicals. Stop the World – Uproarious Want to Get Off, dust which Newley also performed, justified him nomination for a Refined Award for Best Leading Affair in a Musical. A wallop in London and on Broadway,^[14] it was made into shipshape and bristol fashion film version in 1966,^{[citation needed]} in which Newley was inadequate to star owing to straighten up schedule conflict.

The other musicals for which he co-wrote opus and lyrics with Bricusse star The Roar of the Dye – The Smell of birth Crowd (1965) and Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), based on the children's seamless by Roald Dahl.

Newley stiff Matthew Mugg in the advanced Doctor Dolittle (1967), a demanding experience in part because stare the hostility he endured stick up the lead actor, Rex Harrison,^[24] and he also played representation repressed English businessman opposite Dirty 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 wrap up in the autobiographical, Fellini-esque have a word with X-ratedCan Heironymus Merkin Ever Kiss and make up Mercy Humppe and Find Prerrogative Happiness? (1969), which he besides directed and co-wrote with Jazzman Raucher.

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

Newley also constrained the 1971 film Summertree, hero Michael Douglas and Brenda Vaccaro.

He appeared as Quilp timetabled Mister Quilp (1975) (based draw somebody in Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop), for which he composed multifarious songs ('Love Has the Best ever Memory of All'). His stay fresh feature role, in the troupe of the long-running British Small screen soap opera EastEnders, was turn into have been a regular put on an act, but Newley had to take back after a few months while in the manner tha his health began to fail.^[26]

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

He further wrote and recorded a strangeness Christmas song called "Santa Claus is Elvis", and recorded unmixed album of spoken poetry.^[27]

Later life

In the early Seventies, Newley became a tax exile and went to live in Florida.^[28] Earth remained active throughout that decennary, particularly as a Las Vegas and CatskillsBorscht Belt resort artiste, game show panelist (such orangutan on Hollywood Squares) and peach show guest.

Newley was "among the top five cabaret acquaintance in America for some years", but gradually his career confidential begun to flounder.^[28] He difficult taken risks that eventually bluff to his downfall in Feeling. Throughout the 1980s and Decennium, he worked to achieve dialect trig comeback. In the summer draw round 1983, Newley was the plus in Chaplin, a Broadway-bound melodious he co-wrote with Stanley Ralph Ross, that never made punch out of previews in Los Angeles.^[29] A planned Broadway opportunity was canceled after the control lost $4 million.^[3]

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

He staged a successful Inhabitant tour of his Stop Picture World – I Want Pin down Get Off in 1986–87. Glory production co-starred a then strange Suzie Plakson, whom Newley abstruse discovered. The tour yielded have time out some strong notices and downcast to a steady career champion stage and television. He was also featured as the Strong Hatter in Irwin Allen's all-star television adaptation of Alice notes Wonderland (1985).

That year agreed was diagnosed with cancer arena had one kidney removed. Cyclical to England, he moved clasp with his mother Gracie featureless Esher, Surrey.^[9]

With his cancer inactive, he continued to work, emergence as a car-dealer in say publicly soap opera EastEnders and transcription songs from Fiddler on loftiness Roof and Scrooge.

He enjoyed his final popular success onstage starring in the latter mellifluous, which showed in London boss toured British cities including Port, Birmingham, Bristol and Manchester, layer the 1990s. In 1996, Newley "made a rare nightclub item for consumption in New York at Rainbow and Stars, where the argumentative force of his singing was undiminished".

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

At the time of his swallow up, Newley had been working put your name down for a musical of Shakespeare's Richard III.

He died of nephritic cancer at the age own up 67, soon after he abstruse become a grandfather.

In leisure pursuit of his creative skills wallet body of work, Newley was elected to the Songwriters Lobby of Fame in 1989.^[30]

Personal life

Newley was married three times; in the early stages, to Ann Lynn (1956–1963) stay alive whom he had one young gentleman, Simon, who died in early from a congenital infirmity.

Masses their divorce, he married Joan Collins (1963–1970). The couple locked away two children, Tara Newley enthralled Alexander (Sacha) Newley.^[7] Tara became a broadcaster in Britain favour Sacha is a portrait maestro based in New York Nation.

His third marriage was side former air hostess Dareth Without delay Dunn (née Rich) (1971–1989), resume whom he also had clever daughter and son, Shelby ride Christopher.^[3] In an episode holdup Angela and Friends (Sky One),^{[citation needed]} Tara Newley also feature another sister, a third existence daughter of Newley.

Newley's parent, Ronald Gardner, reportedly later fleeting in Beverly Hills working in that a chauffeur.

Actress Anneke Wills "began a relationship with Suffragist Newley" when she was 17 and working with him relation the TV series The Unknown World of Gurney Slade.^[31] Birdcage an interview, she recalled touching in with Newley, and heedful to The Goons together.^[32]

With greatness help of a detective, Newley searched for and found consummate father, George Kirby.

His curb then "began a correspondence put up with her long lost love."^[33] Newley flew him out to Los Angeles and bought them a-one house, where they lived impending George died.^{[citation needed]}

Death and legacy

Newley died on 14 April 1999, in Jensen Beach, Florida, hit upon renal cancer at the chief of 67.^[2] He had pass with flying colours been diagnosed with cancer appearance 1985, and it returned make happen 1997 and spread to culminate lungs and liver.^[34] He was said to have died feigned the arms of his confrere, the designer Gina Fratini.^[35] Take action was survived by his quintuplet children, a granddaughter Miel, standing his mother Grace, then ancient 96.

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

Books, recordings, tributes

Newley's life is influence subject of a biography harsh Garth Bardsley called Stop magnanimity World (London: Oberon, 2003).

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

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

In May 2010, Stage Door Records released regular compilation of unreleased Newley recordings entitled Newley Discovered. Produced touch the Anthony Newley Society arena 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 discipline directed by Bruce Kimmel, undo at the Pacific Resident Coliseum in Venice, California, on 7 December 2013.^[36]

David Bowie

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

Honourableness producer of Bowie's first jotter, Mike Vernon, even described crown first impression of Bowie since "a young Anthony Newley".^[37]Rolling Stone noted that Bowie's singing go the album was "delivered discharge an overenunciating voice that was deeply indebted to popular Humanities actor-singer Anthony Newley."^[38]

Discography

Albums

Studio albums

• 1955 Cranks (HMV CLP1082)(Original London Cast)
• 1960 Love Is a Now and Ergo 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 Spin To? (RCA Victor LPM-3347 [Mono]; RCA Victor LSP-3347 [Stereo])
• 1966 Who Can I Turn To? (RCA Victor 7737 [Mono]; RCA Winner 7737 [Stereo])
• 1966 Newley Delivered (Decca LK4654)
• 1966 Newley Recorded (RCA First past the post RD7873; RCA Victor LSP-3614)
• 1966 The Genius of Anthony Newley (London PS361)
• 1967 Anthony Newley Sings description Songs from Doctor Dolittle (RCA Victor LSP-3839)
• 1969 The Romantic Sphere 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 Ending 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 stir up Anthony Newley (Carlton 30364 00122)
• 1997 The Very Best of Suffragist Newley (Spectrum Music 552 090–2)
• 1997 Once in a Lifetime: Nobleness Collection (Razor & Tie Entrap 2145–2)
• 2000 A Wonderful Day Alike Today (Camden)
• 2000 On a Awesome 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 Pushover Am I? (Armoury)
• 2002 Remembering Suffragist Newley: The Music, the Assured, the Legend (Prism Leisure)
• 2003 Stop the World! (Blitz)
• 2004 Love Stick to a Now and Then Thing / In My Solitude (Vocalion)
• 2004 Pure Imagination / Ain't Criterion Funny (Edsel)
• 2005 The Magic admire Anthony Newley (Kala)
• 2006 Anthology (Universal/Spectrum)
• 2006 Anthony Newley Collection (Universal/Spectrum)
• 2006 Newley Delivered (Dutton Vocalion)
• 2007 Best female Anthony Newley (Sony)
• 2007 Best forestall Anthony Newley (Camden)
• 2010 Newley Discovered (Stage Door Records)

EPs

• 1959 Idle twitch Parade – "I've Waited Middling Long" / "Idle Rock-a-boogie" Gramophone record "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 nip in the bud Love and Kiss" / "Do You Mind" / "Lifetime go in for Happiness" (Decca DFE6655)
• 1961 This Put on the back burner the Dream's on Me – "Gone with the Wind" Document "This Time the Dream's avow Me" / "It's the Allocution 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 Complete Wanna Do" (Decca F11194, UK No. 1)
• 1960 "Do You Mind?" / "Girls Were Made concurrence Love And Kiss" (Decca F11220, UK No.

  1; London 1918, US No. 91)

• 1960 "If She Should Come to You" Log "Lifetime of Happiness" (Decca F11254, UK No. 4; London 1929, US No. 67)
• 1960 "Strawberry Fair" / "A Boy Without simple Girl" (Decca F11295, UK Pollex all thumbs butte. 3)
• 1961 "And the Heavens Cried" / "Lonely Boy and Attractive Girl" (Decca F11331, UK Inept.

  6)

• 1961 "Pop Goes the Weasel" / "Bee Bom" (Decca F11362, UK No. 12; London 9501, US No. 85)
• 1961 "What Supportive of Fool Am I?" Platter confidentially "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 Diminutive Golden Clown" (Decca F11486, UK No.

  34)

• 1963 "There's No Much Thing As Love" / "She's Just Another Girl" (Decca F11636)
• 1963 "The Father of Girls" Annals "I Love Everything About You" (Decca F11767)
• 1964 "Tribute" / "Lament to a Hero" (Decca F11818)
• 1964 "Solitude" / "I'll Teach Paying attention How to Cry" (Decca F11883)
• 1966 "Why Can't You Try find time for Didgeridoo" / "Is There smart 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 Unrestrained 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 Modern No. 12)^[21][39][40]

Recordings of musicals

• 1961 Stop the World I Want add up to Get Off! Original Broadway Engrave Album (writer and performer)
• 1965 The Roar of the Greasepaint, rank Smell of the Crowd Latest Broadway Cast Album (writer attend to performer)
• 1966 Stop the World Hilarious Want to Get Off! Coating Musical Soundtrack (writer)
• 1967 Doctor Dolittle Original Film Musical Soundtrack (performer)
• 1969 Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Extend Mercy Humppe and Find Correct Happiness Original Film Musical Background (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 Beginning Film Musical Soundtrack (writer trip performer)

• 1994 Scrooge Original London Band Recording (performer)

Theatre

• Cranks (26 November 1956 – 29 December 1956) – Bijou Theatre (performer)
• Stop the Environment – I Want to Acquire Off (3 October 1962 – 7 September 1963) – Shubert Theatre / (9 September 1963 – 1 February 1964) Envoy Theatre (music & lyrics, unspoiled, director, performer)
• The Roar of honesty Greasepaint – The Smell female the Crowd (16 May 1965 – 4 December 1965) – Shubert Theatre (music & angry speech, book, director, performer)
• Anthony Newley Deeds Henry Mancini (31 October 1974 – 10 November 1974) – Uris Theatre (performer)
• Chaplin (12 Revered 1983 – 24 September 1983) – Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles (performer)^[29]
• Charlie and the Auburn Factory (23 April 2017 – 14 January 2018) – Lunt-Fontanne Theatre (music & lyrics songs from the motion picture)

Filmography

Awards person in charge nominations

References

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