Anthony Bekenn was born in East Africa, in the southern part of Tanzania during a cyclone. His father, Michael, was a district officer in the Tanganyika government, the result being that Anthony lived a peripatetic life up to the age of eight. Initially he was home schooled by his mother, Sheila, who had previously been a school teacher in ...
Trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, whose alumni include Angela Lansbury, Donald Pleasance, Donald Sindon, Terence Stamp, Stewart Granger, Dulcie Gray, Paxton Whitehead, Sharry Flett, Wendy Crewson, Julia Ormond, Minnie Driver, Hugh Bonneville, Matthew Goode, Rupert Friend, Natalie Dormer, Julian Fellowes, Elizabeth Knowelden, Sue Johnston, Steven Berkoff, Margaret Rutherford, Anthony Sher.
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Cary Grant's last wife, Barbara Harris, was a childhood friend in Tanzania.