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Anthony Declan James Slattery (born
9 November 1959) is an
English actor.
Early life
Slattery was born in
Stonebridge, London, to Irish Catholic immigrant parents. In his youth, he represented England in under-15
judo. He was educated at Gunnersbury Boys Grammar School in West London, and later studied Modern and Medieval Languages, especially French and Spanish, at the
Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he became the president of the Cambridge
Footlights. Like his contemporaries
Stephen Fry and
Hugh Laurie, he became a staple of the British television comedy circuit.
Television career
Slattery first broke into television as a regular performer on
Chris Tarrant's follow up to "
O.T.T.", "
Saturday Stayback". He was a regular on
Whose Line Is It Anyway?, starred in his own improvisational comedy series
S&M, alongside
Mike McShane, and has appeared on other panel quizzes such as
Have I Got News For You. He was a regular on the TV version of the quiz show
Just a Minute and was also on the radio version several times, including the Live version held at the
Edinburgh Festival.
As a serious actor he's appeared in
The Crying Game,
To Die For,
Peter's Friends and
The Wedding Tackle. He appeared on the London stage in the musicals
Me and My Girl and
Radio Times and in the play
Neville's Island.
At the end of the 1980s, he became a film critic, presenting his own show on British television,
Saturday Night at the Movies. He also appeared in the ITV sitcom
That's Love with
Jimmy Mulville. Other TV appearances include
The Music Game alongside good friend
Richard Vranch and as a regular guest with both
Ruby Wax and
Clive Anderson.
He has also been a regular guest with The Comedy Store Players, both at
The Comedy Store in London and on tour.
Early in the 1990s he became over-exposed as a celebrity, to the extent that he was a target of satire. For example, the
Have I Got News For You 1991
annual showed images of the game from around the world, and each local variant featured Slattery as a guest.
Spitting Image showed a sketch where an
anthropomorphised BBC2 logo refused to have
blue paint splattered on it and Slattery intervened for the sake of publicity. The satirical magazine
Private Eye once published a memorable
cartoon depicting Tony's
answering machine with the outgoing message
"Yes, I'll do it!".
In 1992 he appeared in the film
Carry On Columbus. Also in the same year, he appeared in the series "Dead Ringer" filmed for the observation round in
The Krypton Factor. It was during this period that Slattery also appeared in the BBC Sci-Fi comedy series
Red Dwarf in the episode 'Kryten'. Slattery here played the voice of the main character on Kryten's favourite soap Androids (a parody of Neighbours). He also reappeared in
Red Dwarf in 1999 as the voice of the vending machine which threatens
Arnold Rimmer in the final episode of the series:
Only the Good...
In 1993 he starred in the ITV sitcom
Just a Gigolo. However only one series was ever made.
In 1998 he was elected as
Rector of the University of Dundee.
Present Television Role
In January 2005 he appeared in the TV movie
Ahead of the Class with
Julie Walters. In December 2005 he joined the long-running drama
Coronation Street as
Eric Talford and in April 2006 he appeared in
Grumpy Old Men on
BBC Two. In 2007 he appeared as a regular cast member in the ITV series
Kingdom, playing the eccentric Sidney Snell, returning for a second series in January 2008.
In 2005, Tony Appeared In Bad Girls Series 7 As D.I. Alan Hayes who was investigating
the murder of Jim Fenner. He also appeared in a cameo role in
ITV's Life Begins as a date for single mother, Maggie (played by Caroline Quentin). Additionally, Tony played the Canon of Birkley in
Robin Hood's
Show Me the Money on
17 November 2007.
Personal life
In the mid-1990s, after leaving
Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Slattery suffered what he described as a 'mid-life crisis', culminating in 1996 with a six-month period of reclusiveness, during which he didn't answer his door or telephone, "or open bills, or wash," he says; "I just sat." Eventually, one of his friends broke down the door of his flat and convinced him to go to hospital. He was diagnosed as suffering from a
bipolar condition. He discussed this period and his subsequent living with bipolar disorder in a documentary made by
Stephen Fry, "The Secret Life Of The Manic Depressive", in 2006; Slattery claimed that he spent time living in a warehouse and "throwing [his] furniture into the Thames".
Now recovered, he's returned to presenting on British cable television.
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