Highest rated movie: The Guinea Pig (1948)
Lowest rated movie: The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987)
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Movies starring Anthony Newley have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 52%.
The Guinea Pig - released in 1948 - is Anthony Newley's highest rated movie, with a score of 73% based on 3 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Anthony Newley is The Garbage Pail Kids Movie - released in 1987 - with a score of 19% based on 414 reviews.
Anthony Newley was born in Hackney, London, England, to Frances Grace Newley and George Kirby, a shipping clerk. He was attracted to acting, after seeing an ad for a child actor in a Fleet Street window. He attended the Italia Conti Stage School from the age of 14 and, two years later, played the Artful Dodger in David Lean's film, Oliver Twist (1948). Newley was called up to the Army for his National Service and, by the late 1950s, had a hit song Idol on Parade (1959), while in the movie of the same name. He married his first wife, Tiller Girl Ann Lynn in 1956 but it was a rocky marriage and they divorced in 1963. He was in the pop charts seven times in 1960, twice at Number One with "Why?" and "Do You Mind?" written by Lionel Bart. In 1961, he collaborated with Leslie Bricusse on the hit stage show, Stop the World: I Want to Get Off (1966). After long runs in London and on Broadway, it was made into a film, starring Millicent Martin, with the hit song "What Kind of Fool Am I?".
Anthony Newley has acted in films with James Kenney, Jim Cummings, Richard Attenborough and Theodore Bikel.
Anthony Newley has worked with these film directors: Charles Martin Smith, Peter Ustinov, Ted Post and Richard Fleischer.
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