{{Short description|English writer and actor (1931–2014)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2025}} {{Use British English|date=November 2025}} {{Infobox person | birth_name = Anthony John Crosby Marriott | birth_date = {{Birth date|1931|1|17|df=y}} | birth_place = London, UK<ref>{{cite news |url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10783050/Tony-Marriott-obituary.html |title = Tony Marriott – Obituary |work = The Telegraph |date = 23 April 2021 |access-date = 2 June 2021 }}</ref> | death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|4|17|1931|1|17|df=y}} | death_place = Denville Hall, Northwood, London<ref name="NYT"/> | education = *Felsted School *Royal Central School of Speech and Drama<ref name="NYT"/> | spouse = {{Marriage|Heulwen Roberts||1999|reason=died}}<ref name="NYT"/> | children = 3<ref name="NYT"/> }} '''Anthony John Crosby Marriott''' JP (17 January 1931 – 17 April 2014) was a British playwright, screenwriter, and stage and television actor.<ref name="NYT">{{Cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150331164741/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/28/arts/anthony-marriott-british-playwright-dies-at-83.html|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/28/arts/anthony-marriott-british-playwright-dies-at-83.html|title=Anthony Marriott, Author of ''No Sex Please, We're British'', Dies at 83|first=Bruce|last=Weber|website=nytimes.com|access-date=11 November 2025|url-status=live|archive-date=31 March 2015|date=28 April 2014|url-access=registration}}</ref>
As a playwright he was best known as the joint author, with Alistair Foot, of the farce ''No Sex Please, We're British'', which opened at the Strand Theatre, London, on 3 June 1971.<ref>{{cite news |last = Langer |first = Emily |url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/anthony-marriott-writer-of-no-sex-please-were-british-dies-at-83/2014/04/28/0ecad072-cee9-11e3-a6b1-45c4dffb85a6_story.html |title = Anthony Marriott, Writer of 'No Sex Please, We're British,' Dies at 83 |newspaper = The Washington Post |date = 29 April 2014 |access-date = 2 June 2021 }}</ref> It has been performed in 52 countries and on 21 February 1979 became the longest running comedy in the history of world theatre.<ref name="filmreference">[http://www.filmreference.com/film/31/Anthony-Marriott.html Anthony Marriott at the Film Reference website]</ref> A film version starring Ronnie Corbett was released in 1973.
In 1967 Marriott was hired by Amicus Productions to rewrite the screenplay penned by Robert Bloch for ''The Deadly Bees'', a film based on the novel ''A Taste for Honey'' by Gerald Heard.
Marriott also co-created the long-running British television series ''Public Eye'' with Roger Marshall. He never wrote a televised episode for the series, but did write an original novel based on it, ''Marker Calls the Tune'', in 1968.<ref>{{Cite web |title = ''Marker Calls The Tune'' (Book, 1968) [WorldCat.org] |url = https://www.worldcat.org/title/marker-calls-the-tune/oclc/20153170 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161231042048/http://www.worldcat.org/title/marker-calls-the-tune/oclc/20153170 |access-date = 29 June 2025 |archive-date = 31 December 2016 }}</ref> He also wrote television and radio for the BBC and The Rank Organisation.
He lived for many years in Osterley, West London and was a Justice of the Peace.<ref name = "filmreference"/>
==Other plays== * With Alistair Foot, ''Uproar in the House'', Garrick Theatre and Whitehall Theatre, 1967–69 * With John Chapman, ''Shut Your Eyes and Think of England'', Apollo Theatre, 1977
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==External links== * {{IMDb name|0550175}} * {{IBDB name}}
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