Anthony John Hancock was an English comedian and actor. High-profile during the 1950s and early 1960s, he had a major success with his BBC series Hancock's Half Hour, first broadcast on radio from ...

Tony Hancock, at his peak in the 1950s, made one-third of the British population laugh. He did it, not by telling jokes or delivering smutty double-entendres, but by finding humour in the clash ...