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Tony Hendra, This Is Spinal Tap Actor, Dies at 79

Hendra’s window, Carla Meisner, confirmed his death to the New York Times. The actor had been battling ALS - also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease - since being diagnosed in 2019. Hendra began his venture into comedy writing and performing while attending Cambridge University. It was there he joined the Footlights theater group, working alongside future Monty Python members John Cleese and Graham Chapman. Hendra brought his talents to America in the mid-’60s, performing stand-up comedy, while writing and editing for various publications. In 1969, he forayed into television, writing for Playboy After Dark and ABC’s Music Scene.

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Tony Hendra, satirist best known as rock manager in This is Spinal Tap – obituary

By Telegraph Obituaries 7 March 2021 • 1:21pm Tony Hendra, who has died aged 79, was one of the most brilliant satirists of the post-war period. He formed the link between the Cambridge Footlights team, in which he collaborated with John Cleese and Graham Chapman, and American institutions such as the satirical magazine National Lampoon and the NBC show Saturday Night Live where he was instrumental in launching the careers of John Belushi and Chevy Chase. In Rob Reiner’s classic 1984 “mockumentary” This is Spinal Tap, Hendra plays the band’s clueless manager Ian Faith who carries a cricket bat which he uses to immobilise troublesome bystanders and (in one of the film’s most memorable scenes) to trash a television set. (“In the topsy-turvy world of heavy rock, having a good solid piece of wood in your hand is often useful.”)

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Tony Hendra, many-sided satirist best known as the rock manager in This is Spinal Tap – obituary

Hendra (2004): ‘extraordinary; a truly great satirist’ Credit: Tina Fineberg/AP Photo Tony Hendra, who has died aged 79, was one of the most brilliant satirists of the post-war period. He formed the link between the Cambridge Footlights team, in which he collaborated with John Cleese and Graham Chapman, and American institutions such as the satirical magazine National Lampoon and the NBC show Saturday Night Live where he was instrumental in launching the careers of John Belushi and Chevy Chase. In Rob Reiner’s classic 1984 “mockumentary” This is Spinal Tap, Hendra plays the band’s clueless manager Ian Faith who carries a cricket bat which he uses to immobilise troublesome bystanders and (in one of the film’s most memorable scenes) to trash a television set. (“In the topsy-turvy world of heavy rock, having a good solid piece of wood in your hand is often useful.”)

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Tony Hendra, This Is Spinal Tap Actor, Dies at 79

Tony Hendra, This Is Spinal Tap Actor, Dies at 79
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Tony Hendra, This Is Spinal Tap Actor, Dies at 79

Tony Hendra, This Is Spinal Tap Actor, Dies at 79
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