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 .