Tony Bilbow
Actor
Biography
Anthony Bilbow (born 17 April 1932) is a British television interviewer, film expert and writer. He was a presenter of the BBC's Late Night Line-Up discussion programme which was broadcast on BBC2 between 1964 and 1972.
Bilbow's father was an architect. He was educated at the City of London School, Blackfriars, and began writing short stories for the BBC; he was then the anchorman for Day By Day on Southern Television. He was a screenwriter for the 1970s situation comedy Please Sir! and the spin-off series The Fenn Street Gang and in 1986 was a writer for the BBC soap opera EastEnders. From 1970 to 1973, he presented the film programme Film Night, on which his interviewees included David Niven and Alfred Hitchcock.
Bilbow narrated the English voiceover for the BBC three-part series of the cult East German film The Singing Ringing Tree.
As Director
Filmography
Look at Life: Tulip Town
as narrator 1961
Means of Production
as Himself 2008
Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
as Himself 1984
Look at Life: The Trade Winds Blow
as Self - Commentator 1963
Look at Life: Battle of the Bulge
as Self - Commentator 1962
Look at Life: Counting Heads
as Self - Commentator 1961
Look at Life: Keeping Fit
as Self - Commentator 1960
Look at Life: And So to Bed
as Self - Commentator 1961
Look at Life: Roses All the Way
as Self - Commentator 1961
Dors: The Other Diana
1990
Look at Life: A Hundred Thousand Oarsmen
as Self - Commentator 1961
Across the Street—Across the World
as Narrator (voice) 1963
Look at Life: Women in Green
as Self - Commentator 1960