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Regarded as the best radio and TV comic of his era, Tony Hancock was a man whose star burned brightly in the eyes and ears of millions before his untimely death in 1968. Now, forty years on, critically acclaimed biographer John Fisher brings the first fully authorised account of his life.

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an indispensible book ... a brilliant and much-needed account of Hancock's extensive theatre work and its originality, a celebration of the audacity of the television work, and a kind of voyage round the comedian's mind and the nature of his comic enterprise.
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  • Publication date2009
  • ISBN 10 0007266782
  • ISBN 13 9780007266784
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