Andy de la Tour

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Andy de la Tour
Born1948 (age 76–77)
Colchester, England
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Andy de la Tour (born 1948) is an English actor and screenwriter. He is the brother of actress Frances de la Tour [1] and partner of actress Susan Wooldridge.

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de la Tour has appeared in the films Plenty , Notting Hill , Roman Polanski's Oliver Twist , 44 Inch Chest , and The Confessions , and on the television series The Young Ones , Filthy Rich & Catflap , Bottom , Kavanagh QC and The Brief . On stage, he has appeared at the National Theatre in Harold Pinter's No Man's Land in 2001 and Alan Bennett's People in 2012.

His credits as a television writer include Boon , Lovejoy , Peak Practice , The Vet, Kavanagh QC and Clem. He wrote the stage play Safe In Our Hands (winner of the LWT Plays on Stage Award). [2]

As a stand-up comedian, he appeared in the 1980s with Rik Mayall, Ben Elton and French and Saunders. [3] In 2012, he wrote Stand-Up or Die about his time as a stand-up comedian in New York. [4]

He appeared as George Porter in episode 13 of series 31 of Casualty "Not in Holby Anymore" and as General Hurst Romodi in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story . On 6 June 2018 he appeared as Ted, an aging mechanic with a heart defect in BBC1's lunchtime soap Doctors .

On 27 January 2019, he signed an open letter in The Guardian expressing opposition to the USA's handling of the political situation in Venezuela and calling for more dialogue with the president, Nicolás Maduro. [5]

The University of Kent holds an archive of material from de la Tour's career as part of the British Stand-Up Comedy Archive. [6] The archive includes audiovisual recordings, promotional material, and photographs. [7]

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1981 Burning an Illusion Foreman
1982 The Young Ones : "Demolition"Airline pilot
1984The Young Ones: "Cash"Man on TV
1984The Young Ones: "Nasty"Prisoner on Ship
1985 The Bride Priest
1985 Plenty Randall
1985 Loose Connections Journalist
1987 Filthy Rich and Catflap Nightclub Impresario
1992 Bottom Chief Inspector Grobbelaar
1999 Notting Hill Journalist #1
1999 Captain Jack Chandler
2000 Pandaemonium Andrew Crosse
2005 Asylum Inspector Easton
2005 Oliver Twist Workhouse Master
2009 44 Inch Chest Biggy Walpole
2012National Theatre Live: PeopleThe Bishop
2015 Dough Saul Goodwyn
2016 The Confessions Ministro britannico
2016 Rogue One Hurst Romodi
2023 Star Wars: The Bad Batch Hurst Romodi (voice)Episode: “The Summit”

References

  1. ↑ Double, Oliver (16 October 1997). Stand-up!: On Being a Comedian. Methuen Publishing. p. 176. ISBN   978-0413703200.
  2. ↑ Nobbs, David (4 March 2004). I Didn't Get Where I am Today. Arrow Books. p. 393. ISBN   978-0099421641.
  3. ↑ "Andy De La Tour: Fringe summer with Rik Mayall". Edinburgh Evening News . 5 August 2014. Archived from the original on 11 March 2016.
  4. ↑ York, Melissa (15 April 2013). "Andy de la Tour joins Miles Jupp to discuss adventure in Stratford". Newham Recorder . Archived from the original on 29 June 2016.
  5. ↑ "Letters | Putting Venezuela's crisis and US intervention in historical context". The Observer . 27 January 2019. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
  6. ↑ University of Kent Special Collections & Archives (6 December 2021). "British Stand-Up Comedy Archive". Special Collections and Archives - University of Kent. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
  7. ↑ University of Kent Special Collections & Archives. "Andy de la Tour Collection". University of Kent Special Collections & Archives Catalogue. Retrieved 15 May 2024.


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