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Tony Hancock 12th May, 1924 – 24th June, 1968

Continuing our look at some of the biggest and most important names from comedy over the last 70 years. Today it’s the lad himself: Tony Hancock.

Regarded by many as perhaps the greatest post war comedian of his generation, here we take a look at the life and career of Tony Hancock.

Quick Bio

Born Anthony John Hancock on 12 May 1924,  in Southam Road, Hall Green, Birmingham, but from the age of three was brought up in Bournemouth, where his Father, John Hancock, who ran the Railway Hotel in Holdenhurst Road, worked as a comedian and entertainer.
Following the death of his Father in 1934, Hancock and his brothers lived with their mother and stepfather at a small hotel then called The Durlston Court (now renamed The Quality Hotel).

He attended Durlston Court Preparatory School, a boarding school at Durlston in Swanage and Bradfield College in Reading, Berkshire, but left school at the age of fif