# Anthony Marriott
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{{Short description|English writer and actor (1931–2014)}}
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{{Infobox person
| birth_name = Anthony John Crosby Marriott
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1931|1|17|df=y}}
| birth_place = London, UK[{{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 }}]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|4|17|1931|1|17|df=y}}
| death_place = [Denville Hall](/source/Denville_Hall), [Northwood, London](/source/Northwood%2C_London)[{{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](/source/nytimes.com)|access-date=11 November 2025|url-status=live|archive-date=31 March 2015|date=28 April 2014|url-access=registration}}]
As a playwright he was best known as the joint author, with [Alistair Foot](/source/Alistair_Foot), of the farce ''[No Sex Please, We're British](/source/No_Sex_Please%2C_We're_British)'', which opened at the [Strand Theatre](/source/Novello_Theatre), London, on 3 June 1971.[{{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 }}] It has been performed in 52 countries and on 21 February 1979 became the longest running comedy in the history of world theatre.[[http://www.filmreference.com/film/31/Anthony-Marriott.html Anthony Marriott at the Film Reference website]] A [film version](/source/No_Sex_Please%2C_We're_British_(film)) starring [Ronnie Corbett](/source/Ronnie_Corbett) was released in 1973.
In 1967 Marriott was hired by [Amicus Productions](/source/Amicus_Productions) to rewrite the screenplay penned by [Robert Bloch](/source/Robert_Bloch) for ''[The Deadly Bees](/source/The_Deadly_Bees)'', a film based on the novel ''[A Taste for Honey](/source/A_Taste_for_Honey)'' by [Gerald Heard](/source/Gerald_Heard).
Marriott also co-created the long-running British television series ''[Public Eye](/source/Public_Eye_(TV_series))'' with [Roger Marshall](/source/Roger_Marshall_(screenwriter)). He never wrote a televised episode for the series, but did write an original novel based on it, ''Marker Calls the Tune'', in 1968.[{{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 }}] He also wrote television and radio for the BBC and [The Rank Organisation](/source/The_Rank_Organisation).
He lived for many years in [Osterley](/source/Osterley), [West London](/source/West_London) and was a [Justice of the Peace](/source/Justice_of_the_Peace).