Made in Yorkshire book cover

Find out more about Tony’s new book, Made in Yorkshire. You can get hold of your own copy via Guerilla Books.

Archive for December, 2009

Sky News reunion for ex-YP journos

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

An appearance by Tony on Sky News this week led to a reunion of sorts with Colin Brazier, now one of Sky’s premier presenters.
Both Colin and Tony worked at the Yorkshire Post in the mid-’90s. So it was with some amusement that Tony found himself being interviewed by his former colleague about the increasing number […]

“A Demon of a book”

Monday, December 28th, 2009

Tony’s book Beating the Devil, an examination of the making of the classic ’50s horror movie Night of the Demon, continues to pick up great reviews almost five years after it was published.
The latest praise for Tony’s most successful and acclaimed book, headlined “A Demon of a book”, can be found on the website Xenoramic […]

A lesson in how to slowly freeze…

Friday, December 18th, 2009

Tony has completed two long days of shooting on the new historical drama The King’s Speech, which filmed in Leeds and Bradford earlier this week.
The movie stars Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham-Carter, Derek Jacobi and Timothy Spall. Tony, cast as a policeman, took part in a key scene in which Firth, playing the Duke […]

Extra! Extra!

Monday, December 14th, 2009

Tony will join the multitude thronging Odsal Stadium on Wednesday and Thursday this week as a massive crowd scene is recreated for the new period drama The King’s Speech.
Having previously acted in a feature film and a short, appeared in a documentary and provided a voice-over for a stage play, Tony has never provided his […]