Tony Walters

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Antony "Tony" Walters is an Australian actor, film director, and cocreator of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation television series Double the Fist . [1]

Born on the 9th of April, 1962. Walters met his collaborator Craig Anderson when they were performing absurdist theatre at the University of Western Sydney in the mid-1990s. Bryan Moses, the third member of their team was there at the same time making films. They teamed up on the short film Life in a Datsun , which won best comedy at the 1999 Tropfest film festival, where they met Doug Bayne, another entrant who created casual computer effects. The foursome created Dare TV , a consciously tasteless mock reality show that they sold to Special Broadcasting Service. [2]

They then created material for Fly TV, ABC's digital youth channel, before piloting Double the Fist. [2]

He has a partner and a young daughter.

Walters is currently working as a photographer and video journalist for The Sydney Morning Herald.

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References

  1. Tony Walters at IMDb
  2. 1 2 Greg Hassall, "Fistful of hollers", Sydney Morning Herald (20 May 2004).