1. Tony Hawks first attempted to break into show business as a singer-songwriter, but it was with a novelty record that he had his first brush with fame; as leader of the trio Morris Minor and the Majors, he reached No 4 in the UK Singles Chart with the Beastie Boys parody, "Stutter Rap " in 1988.
Tony Hawks has appeared in Red Dwarf in a number of supporting roles, on several occasions as a voice artist for intelligent machines.
On 29 May 2009, Tony Hawks featured in an episode of "Carpool", with his Red Dwarf co-star Robert Llewellyn.
Tony Hawks has appeared as a pundit in the television series Grumpy Old Men and as a contestant on the BBC quiz show School's Out.
Tony Hawks was a contestant on a special edition of Mastermind for Children in Need, and featured as part of Comic Relief in 2011.
In March 2011, Tony Hawks travelled to Japan to appear at the Okinawa International Movie Festival where Round Ireland with a Fridge was nominated for Best Comedy.
Tony Hawks was a guest on many television and radio series during the tour, including BBC Breakfast and The Wright Stuff.
Tony Hawks has contributed to the collection The Weekenders: Travels in the Heart of Africa.
Tony Hawks acted in A Slight Case of Murder at The Nottingham Playhouse and in The Dice House at The Belgrade Theatre in Coventry.
Tony Hawks was a finalist for three consecutive years in the 1980s for the Vivian Ellis prize for Young Composers for the Musical Stage.
Tony Hawks staged a special charity performance of his comedy musical Midlife Cowboy at the Lyric Theatre in London on 25 April 2016.
Tony Hawks donated half of the royalties from his book Playing the Moldovans at Tennis to a trust fund for Moldova, which was used to open the Hippocrates Centre, a medical centre that provides rehabilitative therapy for disabled children from socially vulnerable families.
Tony Hawks continues to support Hippocrates through fundraising and personal involvement and was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2017 Birthday Honours 'for services to disadvantaged children in Moldova'.
Tony Hawks is the co-founder and public face of the 'Tennis for Free' campaign which aims to make Britain's existing municipal tennis facilities available to all.
Tony Hawks won the British Actors Equity Tennis Tournament for three years running and collaborated with Chesney Hawkes between 2013 and 2018 on various songs available from a MySpace website.
Tony Hawks maintains a list of emails intended for the skateboarder, and his mischievous responses to them, on his website.
Tony Hawks noted that his correspondents "might be able to do backside varials but they can't spell to save their lives".