Tony Booth

Antony George Booth (born October 9, 1931 in Liverpool, better known as Tony Booth) is an English actor, best known for his role in the BBC series Til Death Us Do Part. His daughter, Cherie, a prominent Queen's Counsel, is married to Prime Minister Tony Blair. His great great grandfather Algernon Sydney Booth was the uncle of John Wilkes Booth, the actor who assassinated Abraham Lincoln. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (535x651, 87 KB)Promotional photo of Tony Booth from The British Shakespeare Company website. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (535x651, 87 KB)Promotional photo of Tony Booth from The British Shakespeare Company website. ... October 9 is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1931 calendar). ... Liverpool skyline. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2006 est. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke while waiting between takes during location filming An actor or actress is a person who acts, or plays a role, in a dramatic production. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion... Til Death Us Do Part (also known as Till Death Us do Part)1 was a BBC television sitcom series written by Johnny Speight that ran from 1966 until 1975. ... Cherie Blair QC (born in Bury, Greater Manchester on September 23, 1954), better known as the wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, is also a successful lawyer, in which capacity she uses her maiden name Cherie Booth. ... Cherie Booth QC wearing her ceremonial robes (including full-bottomed wig) as Queens Counsel at the Bar of England and Wales. ... A prime minister is the most senior minister of a cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. ... For other people of the same name, see Tony Blair (disambiguation) Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953)[1] is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, Leader of the UK Labour Party, and Member of the UK Parliament... John Wilkes Booth John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was an American actor infamous for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. ... Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American politician elected from Illinois as the 16th President of the United States (1861 to 1865), and the first president from the Republican Party. ...

Booth developed a taste for acting while serving in the armed forces in Paris. Where he sired his first daughter, whom he has never met. He spent five years honing his acting skills in repertory theatre, before venturing into films and television in the 1960s. Since then he has worked in all three media. He has played roles in over twenty films, including Priest (1994), Owd Bob (1997) and Treasure Island (1999). He appeared in the popular British television series Coronation Street in 1960 and in an episode of The Avengers, but it was his role as the left-wing son-in-law in Til Death Us Do Part (1965) that brought him recognition. He has made guest appearances in many other television series. He starred alongside Robin Askwith in the Confessions of... series as Signey Noggett between 1974 and 1977. Some of the titles included Confessions of a Driving Instructor, Confessions of a Pop Performer and Confessions from a Holiday Camp. Also appearing were Bill Maynard and Doris Hare. One of his most recent television appearances was playing a tramp named Nobby Stuart in a special two-hander episode of EastEnders, where he acted alongside Shane Richie. Coronation Street is Britains longest-running television soap opera, which was first broadcast on Friday December 9, 1960, in the Granada region of ITV and is consistently the highest-rated programme on British television. ... The Avengers is a British 1960s television series featuring secret agents in a fantasy 1960s Britain. ... Til Death Us Do Part (also known as Till Death Us do Part)1 was a BBC television sitcom series written by Johnny Speight that ran from 1966 until 1975. ... Robin Askwith (born October 12, 1950 in Southport, England) is a British film actor, most famous for his role as Timmy Lea in the sex comedies. ... Walter Frederick George Williams (born 8 October 1928), more commonly known as Bill Maynard is a British actor who played Claude Jeremiah Greengrass in the television series, Heartbeat, and earlier Selwyn Froggit in the sitcom Oh No! Its Selwyn Froggit. ... Doris Hare MBE (March 1, 1905 - May 30, 2000) was a Welsh actress. ... Nobby Stuart was a fictional character in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Cherie Blairs father, actor Anthony Booth. ... EastEnders is a popular BBC television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC1 on 19 February 1985[2] and continuing to date. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

He came from a working-class background and is a strong supporter of the Labour Party. He served as president of Equity, the actors union. The Labour Party has been, since its founding in the early 20th century, the principal political party of the left in the United Kingdom. ... The British Actors Equity Association (now called Equity) is the British actors trade union. ...

He has been married four times. His first wife was Gale Smith, by whom he had Cherie and Lyndsey, his eldest children. Gale Smith is a devout Roman Catholic and their daughters were raised in her faith after he left the family to be cared for by his long suffering mother Vera. Booth went on to marry former Coronation Street actress Pat Phoenix in 1986, just days before her death from lung cancer, having previously lived together for some years. He then married Nancy Jaeger in 1988. She left him and was granted a divorce in 1996 and Booth then married Stephanie Buckley on the rebound. He has eight daughters, Cherie, Lyndsey, Jenia, Bronwen, Sarah (aka Lauren Booth), Emma, Jo, and Lucy. Coronation Street is Britains longest-running television soap opera, which was first broadcast on Friday December 9, 1960, in the Granada region of ITV and is consistently the highest-rated programme on British television. ... Patricia Phoenix, as Elsie Tanner on Coronation Street, in a still from an episode first aired in the early 1970s. ... Lung cancer is the malignant transformation and expansion of lung tissue, and is the most lethal of all cancers worldwide, responsible for up to 3 million deaths annually. ... Cherie Blair Cherie Blair (born 23 September 1954 in Bury, England), known professionally as Cherie Booth QC, is a prominent barrister. ... Lauren Booth (born Sarah Booth July 22, 1967) is a British journalist. ...

Booth nearly burned to death in 1979 when, during a drunken attempt to get into his locked flat, he fell into a drum of paraffin. He spent six months in hospital and needed 26 skin graft operations.

In a rebuke to the British government's treatment of pensioners, Booth has retired to the Republic of Ireland. Although many in his family believe his real motives for moving there had to do with avoiding the CSA. The Child Support Agency (or CSA) is a UK Government Executive Agency, part of the Department for Work and Pensions, launched on April 5, 1993. ...

Memoirs

• Tony Booth, A Labour of Love (1997)
• Tony Booth, What's Left? (2002)

External links

• Anthony Booth at the Internet Movie Database