Tony Selby's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Callan (UK) Lucas The Good Life (UK) Sam The Detectives (UK) Sgt. 'Nozze… Nozzer Duty Free (UK) Charlie Mulberry (UK) Bert According To Dora (UK) Various (5) Love Hurts (UK) Max Taplow You Must Be the Husband (UK) George Black And Blue (UK) Mavis Burnside (UK) Jim Summers Catch Hand (UK) Lorry Driver Cilla's Comedy Six (UK) Jack Livesy Get Some In! (UK) Cpl. Percy … Half Hour Story (UK) Ged Harbour Lights (UK) Ron Nicholls Hideaway (UK) Terry Staples Jack Of Diamonds (UK) Norman Lugg Moody and Pegg (UK) Sid Shine A Light (UK) Les Robinson The World Of Lee Evans (UK) Father Two's Company (UK) Mr. Burton

Main Movie Roles 1978 - Superman 1971 - Villain 1966 - Alfie 1965 - The City Under the Sea 1960 - The Entertainer

BIOGRAPHY:

Congenial character actor whose best film roles came in two vastly different films in 1971 and 1972 - Richard Burton's 'Villain' and Spike Milligan's 'Adolf Hitler - My Part in His Downfall'. With his down-to earth, friendly London voice he'd been a regular on television for years by this stage, appearing in a roll-call of British TV series since his debut in No Hiding Place in 1964. The Avengers, Department S and Catweazle followed before 1972.

If his film career didn't exactly scale the heights, he can still boast to having appeared in Alfie (1966), Superman (1978) and debuting in the odd charmer, An Alligator Named Daisy. Television has been his more natural home, he headlined Get Some In (1975) had a main part in Love Hurts (1992-94) and appeared most recently in Burnside (2000).

Perhaps his greatest contribution has been in guest appearances where his charisma, which can be menacing when he chooses, has seen him pop up in - Minder, Dr Who, Casualty, Lovejoy, Holby City, The Bill and Eastenders to name but a few.


TRIVIA:

• He was nominated for a 1997 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Supporting in a Musical of 1996 for his role in Paint Your Wagon.
• Trained at the Italia Conti Stage Academy.
• He was voted best actor for Doctor Who: Dragonfire season 24 by Doctor Who magazine readers.