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Tony Hendra is a Actor, Scriptwriter and Producer British born on 1941

Tony Hendra

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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 1941 (83 years)

Tony Hendra (born 1941) is an English satirist, actor and writer who has worked mostly in the United States. Educated at St Albans School (where he was a classmate of Stephen Hawking) and at Cambridge University, he was a member of the Cambridge University Footlights revue in 1962, alongside John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Tim Brooke-Taylor.

Hendra is probably best known for being the writer for the first six shows of the British television series Spitting Image, and for playing Ian Faith, the band's manager, in the film This Is Spinal Tap.

Usually with

Picha
Picha
(3 films)
Harry Shearer
Harry Shearer
(2 films)
Rob Reiner
Rob Reiner
(1 films)
Alice Playten
Alice Playten
(2 films)
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Filmography of Tony Hendra (7 films)

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Actor

Life with Mikey, 1h31
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about children, Films about television
Actors Michael J. Fox, Christina Vidal, Nathan Lane, Cyndi Lauper, David Krumholtz, David Huddleston
Rating57% 2.8505252.8505252.8505252.8505252.850525
Mikey Chapman (Michael J. Fox), a former child star and now a talent agent for child stars, discovers Angie Vega (Christina Vidal, in her first movie), a girl who pick-pockets for money and lives with her teenage sister and her boyfriend. Together, they try to hit it big and earn her a role on a series of television commercials.
This Is Spinal Tap, 1h22
Directed by Rob Reiner
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Musical films
Actors Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Fran Drescher, Bruno Kirby
Roles Ian Faith
Rating78% 3.9475753.9475753.9475753.9475753.947575
Stylistically the movie is a parody of rock documentaries, purportedly filmed and directed by the fictional Marty Di Bergi (Rob Reiner, who was also the actual director of the movie). The faux documentary covers a 1982 United States concert tour by the fictional British rock group "Spinal Tap" to promote their new album Smell the Glove, but interspersed with one-on-one interviews with the members of the group and footage of the group from previous periods in their career.

Scriptwriter

Snow White: The Sequel, 1h22
Directed by Picha
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Witches in film, Children's films
Actors Cécile de France, Agathe Schumacher, Jean-Paul Rouve, Marie Vincent, Jean-Claude Donda, Sarah Hadland
Rating46% 2.328232.328232.328232.328232.32823
Prince Charming was supposed to live long and happily with Snow White after kissing her back to live. However married life doesn't become them, given her lack of domestic skills and his prancing job. Soon each drifts to an affair, only the start of a whole series of perversions of various fairy tale characters' traditional good nature, such as the dwarfs acting as loan shark syndicate. The jealous 'good' fairy takes the cake, as motor of evil twists...
The Great White Hype, 1h31
Directed by Reginald Hudlin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Le boxe anglaise
Actors Samuel L. Jackson, Jeff Goldblum, Damon Wayans, Corbin Bernsen, Peter Berg, Jon Lovitz
Roles Writer
Rating54% 2.7493552.7493552.7493552.7493552.749355
James "The Grim Reaper" Roper (Damon Wayans), the undefeated heavyweight boxing champ of the world, defeats his latest challenger with ease and visits an after-party thrown by the Rev. Fred Sultan (Samuel L. Jackson), a conniving and manipulative businessman who also acts as Roper's fight promoter. The Sultan relays some bad news to everyone: The fight was a financial flop. He deduces the reason that boxing events have become far less profitable is because audience members are sick of watching only black boxers fight each other. The Sultan predicts that a white contender, even one without a viable chance of winning, would create a huge payday for all involved in the fight (citing the Larry Holmes vs. Gerry Cooney battle in 1982 and the playing of the race card in that instance as a precedent), and he vows to either find or "create" a white contender in no time at all.
The Big Bang, 1h20
Directed by Picha
Origin Belgique
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Animation, Comic science fiction
Themes Post-apocalyptic films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Comedy science fiction films, Political films, Dystopian films
Actors David L. Lander, Luis Rego, Georges Aminel, Alice Playten, Marshall Efron, Perrette Pradier
Rating55% 2.7545852.7545852.7545852.7545852.754585
In 1995, World War III begins; Italy annihilates Libya, which destroys Israel. Africa bombs Germany, which in turn attacks France. Luxembourg conquers England. Sweden destroys itself. The Russians decide to liquidate the Americans, who unleash their nuclear fleet, leaving only two continents on the verge of World War IV. In the north, America and Russia merge, containing a mutated strain of males, forming the USSSR. In the south, all that is left of womankind retreat to their territory of Vaginia. The armies of these two nations are soon at odds with each other as they perfect their most destructive weapons capable of destroying the universe.
The Missing Link, 1h35
Directed by Picha
Origin Belgique
Genres Drama, Comedy, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, La préhistoire, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Animaux préhistoriques
Actors Christopher Guest, Richard Darbois, Georges Aminel, Roger Carel, Jacques Ferrière, Philippe Nicaud
Rating58% 2.946622.946622.946622.946622.94662
The year is 196303 BC. A group of cavemen rises from the mud, and the first thing on their minds is finding something to eat. After two unsuccessful attempts, the group decides to eat one of their own. Suddenly, the men meet women, but don't know how to make love to them. The elder of the men sees a pair of stegosaurus performing doggystyle, which inspires the elder to do the same thing with one of the women. Nine months later, that same woman is pregnant with two boys, Ah and O. The cavemen like Ah, but are frightened by O and abandon him. Meanwhile, a brontosaurus abandons one of her eggs. Both O and the baby brontosaurus Igua meet, and instantly become friends.

Producer

Disco Beaver from Outer Space, 51minutes
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Lynn Redgrave, Rodger Bumpass, Alice Playten, James Widdoes, Lee Wilkof, Henry Gibson
Roles Producer
Rating55% 2.766212.766212.766212.766212.76621
The film is essentially a shaggy dog story, leading up to a single play-on-words joke based on "beaver" also being a euphemism for female genitals. At the film's climax, the vampire is frightened by the Beaver; in his delirium, he begins seeing double, thus seeing two images of the Beaver. He cries, "Split beaver!" and disintegrates.