Tony
Anholt was born in Singapore on January 19 1941, his Dutch-born father was captured
shortly after Tony was born when Singapore fell to the Japanese during the second
World War, and died in Malaysia. Tony's mother brought Tony to the UK, after first
going to other countries, including Australia and South Africa.
After Tony left school he had a series of jobs unconnected with the acting profession,
including: Teaching, selling insurance and working for a toy company. Tony
Anholt's acting debut was in the mid 1960's, and some of his early television
roles were in series such as The Mind of Mr J.G. Reeder in
May 1971 in the episode entitled Find the Lady, playing the character Count
Vigaretti.
In
the 1980's Tony worked on several popular television series of that decade, including
Minder and Triangle, but probably his most famous role is as the
very convincing ruthless business tycoon Charles Frere in the highly successful
1980s BBC serial Howards' Way.
Tony went on to marry his Howards' Way co-star Tracey
Childs in 1990, he had divorced his first wife Sheila in 1986. Tony
and Tracey divorced in 1998. In the late 1990's Tony made several episodes of
the television series Lexx.
Sadly,
Tony Anholt was diagnosed with a brain
tumour and
died at the age of 61 in 2002. He is survived by his two ex-wives Sheila and Tracey,
and his son from his first marriage, Christien who is also an actor.
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