Tony Hendra, the humorist who starred as the inept manager in This Is Spinal Tap, has died at the age of 79. His wife Carla Hendra confirmed to The New York Times the cause of death was amyotrophic ...

Tony Hendra, the British humorist and National Lampoon alumnus who played the blundering This Is Spinal Tap band manager responsible for delivering both the tiny Stonehenge and one of the film’s ...

British satirist Tony Hendra, who starred in "This is Spinal Tap" as Ian Faith, has died. He was 79. Hendra, who also was a former editor of National Lampoon and Spy magazines, died Thursday in ...

Tony Hendra, a humorist whose wide-ranging resume included top editing jobs at National Lampoon and Spy magazines and a zesty role in the mockumentary “This Is Spinal Tap,” died Thursday in Yonkers, ...

Tony Hendra, the British satirist and comic whose roles included top editing positions at magazines such as National Lampoon and Spy and a part in musical mockumentary “This Is Spinal Tap,” died on ...

Aug. 19, 2004 -- Tony Hendra's best seller, Father Joe, about the priest who saved his soul from drugs, alcohol and reckless self-destruction, has been praised as "luminescent" and "profound" — but ...

Last year I reviewed a biography by Tony Hendra of a saintly monk. "Father Joe," it was called, "The Man Who Saved My Soul." To be frank, I didn't much care for the book. It was far more about Hendra ...

Tony Hendra, the British actor and comedian who played band manager Ian Faith in the film This Is Spinal Tap, has died at the age of 79. Hendra’s window, Carla Meisner, confirmed his death to the New ...

“He was an immigrant who sailed from London into N.Y. Harbor on the SS United States after being given free passage in exchange for performing stand-up,” she said by email. “What was to be a two-week ...