The latest edition of Cinema Retro magazine (Lee Marvin features on the cover) contains a piece by Tony on the forgotten history of the classic ’60s movie Billy Liar.
John Schlesinger’s movie stars Tom Courtenay and Julie Christie as arch fantasist Billy Fisher and his free-wheeling love, Liz. Yet Christie was a late replacement for Topsy […]

Peter Kershaw’s short film Cinema of Horror, in which Tony cameos as a zombie, has been included in the line-up for Horror UK.
The event, to be held in Fareham, Hampshire, on Friday October 29, is being tagged as a non-stop horror marathon under the banner ‘28 Hours Later’.
More information from www.horroruk.com

Tony delivered his Lion of the Welsh lecture to a sell-out audience at Cardiff’s Chapter Arts Cinema on Sunday night, following up with a Q&A session with Andrew Sinclair, writer/director of the film version of Under Milk Wood.
The evening included a screening of the film along with Jack Howells’ rarely-seen 1960 documentary Dylan Thomas.
The whole […]

Tony will give the third presentation of his Richard Burton lecture Lion of the Welsh in Cardiff on Sunday.
The event takes place at the Chapter Cinema at 5pm, followed by a screening of the Oscar-nominated documentary Dylan Thomas. Later that evening Tony will host a Q&A with writer/director Andrew Sinclair prior to a screening of […]

Shooting has wrapped on The Wicker Tree, a companion piece to The Wicker Man, written and directed by Robin Hardy and produced by Peter Snell.
A four-week shoot on locations across Scotland ended this week. The film, starring Brittania Nicol, Henry Garrett, Graham McTavish and Honeysuckle Weeks, will now go into post-production for a hoped-for summer […]

The newly-released trailer for Cricket, the debut feature film from the award-winning Austin Brothers triumvirate, features Tony (as Russian gangster Chris Lentz) among the multitudinous cast.
Judging by the rapturous reception the trailer has received, the finished film, starring Dutch Dore-Boize, is going to be a winner. Full marks to Dan, Chris and Matt for pulling […]

On Sunday in connection with the Richard Burton season currently running at the Chapter in Cardiff, Tony was interviewed at length for BBC Radio Wales.
He was a featured guest on the Shan Cothi Show discussing Burton, his films, theatre roles and enduring legacy. The programme, hosted by Frances Donovan, went out on Sunday at 10am […]