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One of Broadway’s greatest leading men, Anthony Newley, was born in born George Anthony Newley in Hackney, London on September 24, 1931. His personal hit parade includes numerous film and stage musicals, highlighted by Stop the World, I Want to Get Off and The Roar of the Greasepaint (The Smell of the Crowd).

Newley's beginnings in the entertainment industry go back to his departure from regular school at the age of 14.

Soon after he was accepted as a student at the Italia Conti stage school and a few weeks later won the title role in the film The Adventures of Dusty Bates. The following year (1948), he starred in Peter Ustinov’s film Vice Versa and then as the Artful Dodger in David Lean’s classic production of Oliver Twist.

By the mid-1950’s, Newley was well-known throughout the world as an actor and in 1957 he starred in 6 major films.

His singing career began with a 1959 film Idle on Parade, in which he performed four o