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Anthony George Booth (9 October 1931 – 25 September 2017) was an English actor, best known for his role as Mike Rawlins in the
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''. He was the father-in-law of former
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and the widower of '' Coronation Street'' star
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, marrying her a few days before her death in 1986.


Early life

Booth was born into a working-class family in Jubilee Road,
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, in 1931 and raised Catholic. His mother was a Roman Catholic of Irish descent, and his father was a merchant seaman during
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and Catholic convert. Tony Booth attended St Edmund's Infants School and spent a year in hospital as a child with
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. He then passed the Eleven-plus examination and attended St Mary's College, Crosby, where he was awarded a
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to cover the cost of his books. His hopes of going to university were dashed when he had to leave school and get a job after his father was badly injured in an industrial accident. He then worked as a clerk in a docklands warehouse and at the United States Consulate in Liverpool, before being called up for
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with the Royal Corps of Signals.


Acting

Booth developed a taste for acting when posted in the
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to
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in Paris. He spent five years in repertory theatre, before appearing in films and television during the 1960s. He played roles in over twenty films, including ''
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'' (1962), '' Corruption'' (1968), '' The Girl with a Pistol'' (1968), '' Brannigan'' (1975), ''
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'' (1994) and ''
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'' (1997). He appeared early in the run of the television series '' Coronation Street'' in 1960 and in an episode of '' The Avengers'', but it was his role as the left-wing son-in-law in ''
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'' (1965) that brought him recognition. Booth made guest appearances in many other television series. He starred alongside
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in the ''Confessions of ...'' British sex comedy film series as Sidney Noggett between 1974 and 1977. These were ''
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'', ''
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'', ''
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'' and ''
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''. From 1985 to 1986, Booth appeared as pub landlord Ted Pilkington in the short-lived ITV soap ''
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''. He starred in the 1998 short film '' The Duke'', playing an elderly man who tells his adoring grandson that he is John Wayne. In 2001, Booth appeared in several episodes of ''
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'' playing Barry Hurst,
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' brother-in-law. Booth played a tramp named Nobby Stuart in a special two-hander episode of '' EastEnders''. In 2007, he also played a tramp called Errol Michaels in ''
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''. Both of these characters played the purpose of a spiritual guide to a down-and-out character, in ''EastEnders'',
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(
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) and in ''Emmerdale'',
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(
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).


Personal life

Booth was married four times and had eight daughters by five women. By his first wife Gale Howard, he had two daughters, Cherie and Lyndsey.
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, a King’s Counsel, is married to the former Prime Minister
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. While Booth was a long-standing supporter of the Labour Party, his politics differed from that of his daughter and her husband. Booth nearly burned to death in November 1979 when, during a drunken attempt to get into his locked flat, he fell into a drum of paraffin. He spent six months in hospital and needed 26 skin graft operations. Shortly after his discharge from hospital, he went to visit an 'old flame', '' Coronation Street'' actress
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. She took him in and nursed him back to full health, and they lived together for six years. Phoenix's own health subsequently declined, and the pair married a few days before her death from lung cancer in 1986. With his third wife, Nancy Jaeger, he had a daughter, Joanna. Booth had five other daughters with partners he did not marry. He left Gale, his first wife, in 1961 for Julia Allan, with whom he had two daughters Jenia and Bronwen. He had a daughter, Lucy Thomas in 1967 with Ann Gannon, who worked in radio sales, after a brief relationship; this did not become known publicly until 2002. His relationship with Pamela Smith, which began in the 1960s, lasted 13 years; the couple had Booth's other two daughters, Emma and Lauren Booth, a broadcaster and journalist. In a rebuke to the British government's treatment of pensioners, Booth retired to Blacklion, County Cavan, in Ireland in 2003, but returned and lived in
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, east of
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. In 2006 he said he was the victim of anti-English bias while living in Ireland. Booth was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2004. He suffered a stroke in 2010. He also had chronic heart failure and
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. Booth died on 25 September 2017 at home, aged 85. In March 2019, Booth's widow Steph published the book ''Married to Alzheimer's: A Life Less Ordinary with Tony Booth'', a memoir about her time caring for her husband.


Filmography

* '' Suspect'' (1960) – Parkin * '' Pit of Darkness'' (1961) – Ted * '' The Valiant'' (1962) * ''
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'' (1962) – at 'La Paloma' / Gravy * ''
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'' (1962) – Youth in Street * ''The Partner'' (1963) – Buddy Forrester * '' The Hi-Jackers'' (1963) – Terry McKinley * ''
Of Human Bondage ''Of Human Bondage'' is a 1915 novel by W. Somerset Maugham. The novel is generally agreed to be Maugham's masterpiece and to be strongly autobiographical in nature, although he stated, "This is a novel, not an autobiography; though much in i ...
'' (1964) – Martin (uncredited) * '' The Saint, The Rhine Maiden'' (1965) - Hans * '' The Return of Mr. Moto'' (1965) – Hovath * '' The Saint, The Russian Prisoner'' (1966) - Pyotr * '' The Girl with the Pistol'' (1968) – John * '' Corruption'' (1968) – Mike Orme * ''
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'' (1969) – Mike Rawlins (the boyfriend) * ''The Exorcism of Hugh'' (1972) – Delamare * '' Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall'' (1973) – Tommy Brettell * ''
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'' (1974) * ''
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'' (1974) – Sidney Noggett * '' Brannigan'' (1975) – Freddy * ''
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'' (1975) – Sidney Noggett * ''
Confessions of a Driving Instructor ''Confessions of a Driving Instructor'' is a 1976 British sex-farce film. This was the third instalment of the ''Confessions'' sequence on the erotic adventures of Timothy Lea, based on the novels published under the name by Christopher Wood. ...
'' (1976) – Sidney Noggett * ''
Confessions from a Holiday Camp ''Confessions from a Holiday Camp'' is a 1977 British comedy film. It is the last film in the series which began with '' Confessions of a Window Cleaner''. The film was released in North America in 1978 under the title ''Confessions of a Summer ...
'' (1977) – Sidney Noggett * ''
Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair ''Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair'' (UK re-release title: ''Star Sex'') is a 1979 British sexploitation comedy film directed by Willy Roe and starring Alan Lake, Glynn Edwards, Mary Millington, Bernie Winters, Diana Dors and Anton ...
'' (1979) – Steve * ''
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'' (1994) – Tommy * ''
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'' (1998) – Tammas * '' The Duke'' (1998) * ''
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'' (1999) – Chief Revenue Officer * ''
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'' (2002) – Lord Antonio * ''Upstaged'' (2005) – Candidate – Leggings * '' Gone to the Dogs'' (2006) – Jack :* Sources:


Memoirs

* Tony Booth, ''Stroll On'' (1989) * Tony Booth, ''A Labour of Love'' (1997) * Tony Booth, ''What's Left?'' (2002)


References


External links


Anthony Booth
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