Anthony Holland (British Official)
Anthony, Antony or Tony Holland may refer to: * Anthony Henry Holland (1785–1830), Nova Scotia businessman and printer * Anthony Holland (actor) (1928–1988), American actor * Antony Holland (1920–2015), English actor, playwright, and theatre director * Tony Holland (1940–2007), English television screenwriter * Tony Holland (bodybuilder) Tony Holland (born 1939) is a British bodybuilder known for his muscle dancing act using his skill at the Maxalding muscle control technique. He achieved national celebrity in the UK after appearing on the ITV talent show '' Opportunity Knocks ...

Anthony Henry Holland
Anthony Henry Holland (25 November 1785 – 10 October 1830) was a Halifax businessman and printer. He was named after and the godson of Anthony Henry. Holland is best known for founding the Acadian Recorder in 1813. In 1819, he founded and successfully ran the first paper mill in Atlantic Canada. It was known as the Acadia Paper Mill and was located on the Nine Mile River, near Bedford Basin. He is buried in the cemetery of the Little Dutch (Deutsch) Church The Little Dutch (Deutsch) Church is the second-oldest building in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, after St. Paul's Church. It was built for the Foreign Protestants, and is the oldest site in Canada associated with Lutheranism. It is a National Hi ..., Halifax, Nova Scotia. References * Holland, Anthony Henry Holland, Anthony Henry Holland, Anthony Henry 19th-century Canadian newspaper publishers (people) {{Canada-business-bio-stub ...
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Anthony Holland (actor)
Anthony Holland (March 3, 1928 – July 9, 1988) was an American actor, best known for his comic performances in theatre, film and television. Holland graduated from the University of Chicago and studied acting with Lee Strasberg during the 1960s. He was one of the original members of The Second City improvisational comedy group. In 1987, he appeared in Martha Clarke's adaptation of several stories by Franz Kafka, ''The Hunger Artist'', for which he received praise from ''The New York Times'' theatre critic Frank Rich. His film appearances included the 1979 Bob Fosse film '' All That Jazz'', the original 1970 version of the Neil Simon-penned '' The Out-of-Towners'', Sidney Lumet's ''Bye Bye Braverman'', Alan J. Pakula's ''Klute'' and Paul Mazursky's 1982 film ''Tempest''. He also appeared in television series including ''Combat!'', ''Columbo'', ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show'', ''M*A*S*H'', ''Hill Street Blues'' and ''Cagney and Lacey''. In 1973 he starred opposite Bernadette Peter ...
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Antony Holland
Antony Holland (28 March 1920 – 29 July 2015) was an English actor, playwright and theatre director who until his death in 2015 lived on Gabriola Island, British Columbia, Canada. History Holland completed his drama training at the Labour Stage in London. Shortly after, he was called into His Majesty's Armed Forces as a signalman at the onset of the Second World War. While training at the coastal town of South Shields, he put on a play in a local abandoned theatre. Holland continued to mount productions in his spare time throughout the course of the war. He was granted the officers' lounge for rehearsals and cast approximately 100 men in a wide variety of roles, including parts that required playing women. His plays continued through the North African Campaign, crossed the desert, and made it to Cairo where he would mount productions at the Khedivial Opera House. So successful were his plays that the military requisitioned stage materials for more elaborate productions. ...
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Tony Holland
Anthony John Holland (18 January 1940 – 28 November 2007) was a British screenwriter, best known as a writer and co-creator (with Julia Smith (producer), Julia Smith) of the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders''. Early life Holland was the oldest of three children born to John and Pat Holland, with his younger twin brothers Allan and Bryn. As a military family, Holland moved around with the postings assigned to his father and spent time in Aldershot, Gravesend and Chelmsford. Early career Holland began his career as an actor, appearing in the 1966 ''Doctor Who'' serial ''The Savages (Doctor Who), The Savages'' and later ''Message for Posterity'', a 1967 serial for ''The Wednesday Play''. In the latter year, a play Holland had developed - ''The Isle is Full of Noises'' - was taken up by the BBC and produced by ''Thirty-Minute Theatre''; it was from there that Holland turned to script-writing. Through his agent, Holland landed a job as a writer and script editor on ''Z-Cars'' in 1970. ...
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