---
name: "Tony Bilbow"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/tony-bilbow"
fi1m_id: "tony-bilbow"
tmdb_id: 1302447
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "17 April 1932"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T12:29:07.203867+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Tony Bilbow

## Identity

Tony Bilbow

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/tony-bilbow
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** tony-bilbow
- **TMDB ID:** 1302447
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1302447

Writer. Born 17 April 1932 in Burnham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 17 April 1932, Burnham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1302447

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*EastEnders*](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md) (70)

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## Biography

Tony Bilbow is a British television interviewer, film expert and writer. He presented the BBC discussion programme *Late Night Line-Up* on BBC2 from 1964 to 1972 and the film programme *Film Night* from 1970 to 1973.

Bilbow wrote for the situation comedy *Please Sir!* and its spin-off *The Fenn Street Gang*. In 1986 he contributed scripts to the BBC soap opera *EastEnders*. He also narrated the English voiceover for the BBC series of the East German film *The Singing Ringing Tree*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *EastEnders* (1985), Fi1m 70, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Dors: The Other Diana* (1990), Writer
- *EastEnders* (1985), series, Writer — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md)
- *Monty Python & the Holy Grail Location Report* (1974), Director
- *Please Sir!* (1968), series, Writer
- *Thirty-Minute Theatre* (1965), series, as A Guest
- *Moonstrike* (1963), series, as Squadron Leader Huggins
- *Across the Street—Across the World* (1963), as Narrator (voice)
- *Look at Life: Tulip Town* (1961), as narrator

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