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This is Spinal Tap s Tony Hendra has died at 79
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THIS IS SPINAL TAP, died yesterday at the age of 79 after battling Lou Gehrig’s disease.
Tony Hendra started writing and performing comedy while attending Cambridge University and soon formed a comedy act with Nick Ullett. After traveling to the United States, the pair performed stand-up on the comedy circuit, even appearing on
The Merv Griffin Show and
The Ed Sullivan Show, but Hendra decided to pursue a career writing for television and broke up the act. After several years writing for
Playboy After Dark and
Music Scene, Hendra got himself into trouble when he wrote an open letter to the chairman of General Motors to scold him on the company s record on pollution. Unfortunately, his manager had just gotten him a major gig writing a special that was to be sponsored by Chevrolet. I was flooded with supportive calls from Hollywood’s nascent left, Hendra wrote in Harpers in 2002, and I was finished in
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Comedian Tony Hendra who played the band manager in musical mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap has died at the age of 79
Comedian Tony Hendra who played the band manager in musical mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap has died at the age of 79.
The British satirist, whose roles included top editing positions at magazines such as National Lampoon and Spy, died on Thursday in Yonkers, New York.
His wife, Carla Meisner, told the New York Times the cause of death was Lou Gehrig s disease, which the writer was first diagnosed with in 2019.
In Rob Reiner s 1984 mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, he played Ian Faith, the bumbling band manager who tells Michael McKean s character that having a gig in Boston canceled isn t a big deal because It s not a big college town .