Andy de la Tour

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Andy de la Tour
Born1948 (age 7576)
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 films Plenty , Notting Hill , the Roman Polanski's Oliver Twist , 44 Inch Chest , and The Confessions , and in television 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"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
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”

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