This website is dedicated to Tony Hancock..

Born on 12th May 1924, at 41 Southam Road, Hall Green, Birmingham. Tony Hancock moved to Bournmouth, with the hekp of his parents, at the tender age  of  3, where he was emersed in a culture of  theatre and entertainment from the likes of  Elsie and Doris Walters.  His love of theatre and entertainment shone through during the second world war when he joined the RAF and , a little later, Ralph Readers RAF Gang Show.

Hancock would be pretty much a small bit player until his break into radio brought him Educating Archie ( 1951 to 1953 )..  The loveable curmudgeon that we know and still adore as Hancock came in 1954 with the advent of the H-H-H-H-Hancocks Half Hour Radio Shows. His transition to TV in 1956 was unique in it's  magnitude. Audiences seeing Hancock loved him even more than the voice he had delighted them with for the years before.

Hancock was a troubled genius. He really was a genius....Landlords of pubs hated him because in those pre-video days Hancock managed to keep people out of the pubs for 30 minutes of Friday night drinking time !!!! No other artist has ever had that impact on commerce. 

Hancock strived for perfection, disposing of old colleagues like Bill Kerr, Hatie Jaques, Kenneth Williams and finally, Sid James before leaving to make a series for Australian television where, on the 26th June 1968, he took his own life with an overdose of Vodka and sleeping tablets.

A few years after his death, Spike Milligan - who loved Hancock - was to say of him " He got rid of everyone around him and then got rid of himself"