Tony McHale (born Antony Wright in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire) is a British actor, writer and director who is best known as a "stooge" to Jeremy Beadle on Game For A Laugh and later, Beadle's About. He trained at Rose Bruford College. He also enjoyed a long stint as a writer/director on the top rated BBC1 soap opera EastEnders during the 1990s. He co-created BBC medical drama Holby City, and served as its executive producer and showrunner from 2007 to 2010.Tony also served as a core writer on Silent Witness and Holby City. He currently works as a Core Writer on Casualty
Played the character responsible for murdering Coronation Street (1960)'s Ernest Bishop (played by Stephen Hancock) during a siege at the fictional factory, Baldwin's Casuals. Later, when he became a writer he was responsible for killing off Charlie Cotton in EastEnders (1985) who was played by Stephen's brother Christopher Hancock! He later apologized to the Hancocks for this unfortunate coincidence.
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During the 1990s, he emerged as a meteoric guiding force behind the success of the London-based soap opera EastEnders (1985), in his capacity as its senior storyliner and director.
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A former stooge to Jeremy Beadle, he enjoyed an on-screen role in many of the Candid Camera-style pranks for the hit ITV series, Beadle's About (1986).
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Holby City
2006-2010
TV Series executive producer - 209 episodes
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Casualty
1995-2015
TV Series written by - 28 episodes
Holby City
1999-2011
TV Series written by - 29 episodes
Trial & Retribution
2009
TV Series writer - 2 episodes
Silent Witness
1998-2007
TV Series writer - 11 episodes
Dalziel and Pascoe
2004-2006
TV Series written by - 5 episodes
The Bill
TV Series written by - 4 episodes, 2004 - 2005 writer - 1 episode, 1991
Waking the Dead
2004
TV Series writer - 2 episodes
Murphy's Law
2004
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Beech Is Back
2001
TV Mini-Series written by - 2 episodes
Headless
2000
TV Series
EastEnders
TV Series 25 episodes, 1986 - 1999 written by - 62 episodes, 1985 - 1998 by - 1 episode, 1988
EastEnders: The Mitchells - Naked Truths
1998
Video archive written by
Dangerfield
TV Series by - 2 episodes, 1998 written by - 2 episodes, 1997
Resort to Murder
1995
TV Mini-Series written by - 5 episodes
The Lifeboat
1994
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Eldorado
TV Series 9 episodes, 1992 - 1993 writer - 3 episodes, 1992 - 1993
Perfect Scoundrels
1992
TV Series writer - 1 episode
All Change
1989
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Saracen
1989
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Boon
1987-1988
TV Series written by - 3 episodes
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
EastEnders
1993
TV Series story consultant - 25 episodes
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Driven
1998
Mickey Hart
Beadle's About
1987
TV Series
Lovelorn Man / Valet Customer / Airport Clerk / ...
$10 Million
