Tony Britton

Anthony Edward Lowry Britton (June 9, 1924 – Decembe 22, 2019) was an English actor.

He was born in a room above the Trocadero public house in Temple Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire, the son of Doris Marguerite  and Edward Leslie Britton. He attended Edgbaston Collegiate School, Birmingham and Thornbury Grammar School, Gloucestershire. During the Second World War he served in the Army and he also worked for an estate agents and in an aircraft factory. He began elevating his name in repertory at Edinburgh and the Bristol Old Vic during the 1951 season, but major attention came after being cast as Rameses in Christopher Fry's The Firstborn at London's Winter Garden Theatre in 1952. This success led to the leading role and excellent critical notices in The Player King later that year at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland. Glen Byam Shaw, director of the Memorial Theatre, witnessed this performance and invited him join his company. He remained there for two seasons playing Bassiano opposite Peggy Ashcroft in The Merchant of Venice, as well as essaying the roles of Cassio in Othello, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet and Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream, among others.

For Disney, he played Simon Bats in Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow.