Professional Credits
Awards & Nominations
• 1996: The Ainsworth Award (presented by The Guild of Regional Film
Writers) “Highly Commended”.
• 1999: The Ainsworth Award (presented by The Guild of Regional Film
Writers) “Highly Commended”.
• 2002: The Special Sherlock Award (presented by Sherlock
magazine to ‘the writer who has best illuminated the world of Sherlock
Holmes’) for An Actor and a Rare One: Peter Cushing as Sherlock
Holmes.
• 2005: Rondo Award Nomination "Best Book of 2005" (presented by the
Classic Horror Film Board) for Beating the Devil - The Making of Night
of the Demon. "Honourable Mention".
Books & Monographs
An Actor, and a Rare One – Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes (Scarecrow Press), Beating the Devil – The Making of Night of the Demon (NMPFT/Tomahawk Press), Painter with Light (NMPFT Publishing), Soul of India (NMPFT Publishing), Baadshah (NMPFT Publishing).
Find out more about Tony's books in the Bibliography section.
Tony’s contributions to other authors’ work has been
acknowledged in the following publications:
Barb Wire: The Official Fan Book (John Mosby, Boxtree), British
Film Makers: Michael Reeves (Ben Halligan, Manchester University Press),
The Cutting Edge (John Mosby, MAI Publications), The Hammer
Story (Marcus Hearn & Alan Barnes, Titan Books), A Heart Turned
East (Adam Lebor, Little, Brown & Co), Hong Kong Action Cinema
(Bey Logan, Titan Books), Starring Sherlock Holmes (David Stuart
Davies, Titan Books), Television's Strangest Moments (Quentin Falk
& Ben Falk, Robson Books), Zulu: With Some Guts Behind It - The
Making of the Epic Movie (Sheldon Hall, Tomahawk Press), Sweet
and Savage - The World Through the Shockumentary Film Lens (Mark Goodall,
Headpress)
TV
The 100 Greatest War Films (Channel 4), Body and Soul (Yorkshire Television), The Buzz (Yorkshire Television, two seasons), Calendar (Yorkshire Television), Film Festival 2001 (Yorkshire Television), Live Lunch (Yorkshire Television), Look North (BBC), New Visions (Yorkshire Television, two series), Tonight (Yorkshire Television), The Ultimate Sci-Fi Top 10: Robots (Sky One).
Radio
Back Row (Radio 4), The Big Picture (Radio London), Brief Lives (BBC Radio 5 Live), Flashback with Georgey Spanswick (BBC Radio Leeds – semi regular ‘Film Flashback’ slot), The Mariella Frostrup Show (Capitol Radio), Up All Night (BBC Radio 5 Live)
Film
Leatherface Speaks (UK short), Richard Attenborough: The Actors’ Director (UK documentary), Von Werra (Swiss documentary), Jean Simmons: Rose of England (UK documentary), The Making of Puckoon (UK documentary), Mike Hodges: Uncompromising Poet of the Prescient (UK documentary), Jenny Agutter: A Charmed Career (UK documentary)
Magazines
Absolute Leeds, ArtScene *, British Cinematographer, Cinema Retro, .Cent, Comic World *, Event *, Filmhaftet, Film Review, Flicks *, Gamesman *, Hammer Horror *, Impact, Jewish Chronicle, Me *, Profile, Satellite Times *, Scarlet Street, Sherlock, Starburst, Star Wars: The Official Magazine, Video: The Magazine *, View.
* Indicates that the publication is now defunct
DVDs
Bartleby
• Tony contributed audio interviews with Crispin Glover and Jonathan
Parker for this UK release from Mandrake Media.
A Bucket of Blood
• Tony wrote the sleeve notes.
Don’t Look in the Basement
• Sleeve notes written by Tony.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Tony wrote the sleeve notes.
The Giant Spider Invasion
• Tony wrote the sleeve notes.
House on Haunted Hill
• Tony wrote the sleeve notes.
Night of the Living Dead
• The sleeve notes were written by Tony. He also supplied a George
Romero filmography and biography for this STAX Entertainment release.
Nosferatu
• Tony wrote the sleeve notes.
The Phantom of the Opera
• Tony wrote the sleeve notes.
Queen of Blood
• Tony wrote the sleeve notes.
Reinventing Eddie
• Tony conducted an interview with John Lynch and John Thomson for
the DVD extras on this UK release from Guerilla Films.
Silent Night, Bloody Night
• Tony wrote the sleeve notes.
The Wild Geese
• Tony co-wrote the insert booklet (with Jonathan Sothcott) for this
UK DVD release of Andrew V. McLaglen’s film from Mosaic Entertainment.
Witchcraft
• The sleeve notes were written by Tony. He also supplied filmographies
for the DVD extras.