{{Short description|British television interviewer, film expert and writer (born 1928)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Tony Bilbow | image = | birth_name = Antony Bilbow | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1928|04|17|df=y}} | birth_place = Eton<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=8Ed10Rho7NAC57f9keYcuw&scan=1|title=Index entry|accessdate=27 December 2025|work=FreeBMD|publisher=ONS}}</ref>, Buckinghamshire, England | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Television presenter and screenwriter | spouse = }} '''Antony<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=8Ed10Rho7NAC57f9keYcuw&scan=1|title=Index entry|accessdate=27 December 2025|work=FreeBMD|publisher=ONS}}</ref> Bilbow''' (born 17 April 1928<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=8Ed10Rho7NAC57f9keYcuw&scan=1|title=Index entry|accessdate=27 December 2025|work=FreeBMD|publisher=ONS}}</ref>) is a British television interviewer, film expert and writer.<ref>''Who's Who on Television'' Independent Television Publications Ltd (1970)</ref> He was a presenter of the BBC's ''Late Night Line-Up'' discussion programme which was broadcast on BBC2 between 1964 and 1972.
Bilbow's father was an architect. He was educated at the City of London School, Blackfriars, and began writing short stories for the BBC; he was then the anchorman for ''Day By Day'' on Southern Television. He was a screenwriter for the 1970s situation comedy ''Please Sir!'' and the spin-off series ''The Fenn Street Gang'' and in 1986 was a writer for the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders.'' From 1970 to 1973, he presented the film programme ''Film Night'', on which his interviewees included David Niven and Alfred Hitchcock.
Bilbow narrated the English voiceover for the BBC three-part series of the cult East German film The Singing Ringing Tree.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lyons |first=Kevin |date=2019-11-04 |title=The Singing Ringing Tree (1957) |url=https://eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2019/11/04/the-singing-ringing-tree-1957/ |access-date=2024-12-03 |website=The EOFFTV Review (EOFFTV - The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Film and Television) |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Worthington |first=Tim |date=2021-09-10 |title=The Singing Ringing Tree |url=https://timworthington.org/2021/09/10/the-singing-ringing-tree/ |access-date=2024-12-03 |website=Tim Worthington |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Schedule - BBC Programme Index |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/service_bbc_one_london/1969-11-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241204143730/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/service_bbc_one_london/1969-11-05 |url-status=dead |archive-date=4 December 2024 |access-date=2024-12-03 |website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk}}</ref>
==Bibliography== *{{Cite book|last=Bilbow|first=Tony|title=The Adventures of Jungle Ted and the Laceybuttonpoppers|year=1974|publisher=Imprint unknown|isbn=0903925176|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Adventures-Jungle-Ted-Laceybuttonpoppers/dp/0903925176/ref=sr_1_2?qid=1686584438&refinements=p_27%3ATony+Bilbow&s=books&sr=1-2}} *{{Cite book|last=Bilbow|first=Tony|title=Lights, Camera, Action!: A Century of the Cinema|year=1995|publisher=Little Brown|location=London|isbn=0-316-87595-3|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/lightscameraacti00bilb}} *{{cite book |last1=Bilbow |first1=Tony |title=Head Rat |date=2013 |isbn=1493514954}}
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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20130126205344/http://thespace.org/items/e0000cp0 Tony Bilbow Alfred Hitchcock Interview] * {{IMDb name|0082148|Tony Bilbow}}
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