Anthony John Walton was a British costume designer and set designer.
27 Facts About Tony Walton
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Tony Walton won three Tony Awards, an Academy Award, and a Emmy Award.
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Tony Walton received three Tony Awards for Pippin, House of Blue Leaves, and Guys and Dolls.
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Tony Walton was born in Tony Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, on 24 October 1934.
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Tony Walton's father, Lancelot, was an orthopedic surgeon and his mother, Hilda, was a homemaker.
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Tony Walton fell in love with the theatre as child when on a family trip to a pantomime.
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Tony Walton found her number in the telephone book and asked for her address so he could send her some pictures.
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Tony Walton attended Radley College in Oxford where he studied Greek and Latin.
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Tony Walton came to find Walton at the end of the show, and told him he should go into stage design.
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Tony Walton followed his advice and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London.
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Tony Walton spent two years of mandatory military training with the Royal Air Force, as a trainee pilot in Ontario, Canada.
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Tony Walton began his career in 1957 with the stage design for Noel Coward's off-Broadway production of Conversation Piece.
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Tony Walton entered the motion pictures business through Walt Disney, after Disney met him back stage after a performance of Camelot.
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Tony Walton was not allowed to make any reference to the famous illustrations that Mary Shephard had done for the original book in 1934, as the rights to the story did not include this.
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Tony Walton made the set realistic, paying attention to detail, as he was always annoyed by sets that didn't look real.
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Tony Walton alluded to Mary Poppins' "secret life", by making her clothes grey or black on the outside, but with brightly coloured linings and flashes of crimson.
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Tony Walton continued to work in the film industry as a costume designer and set designer working on films such as A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Boy Friend, and Equus.
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Tony Walton received further Academy Award nominations for his work on Murder on the Orient Express, and The Wiz.
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Tony Walton won his only Academy Award for his work as an Art Director on Bob Fosse's musical film All That Jazz.
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In 1989, the American Museum of the Moving Image showcased over 30 years of his work for films, television, and theatre in an exhibit entitled: Tony Walton: Designing for Stage and Screen, including drawings, models and photographs from his early plays including the Regency-style Conversation Piece from 1957 and "his evocation of a London street" for the 1964 film Mary Poppins.
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Tony Walton gave the Sherman Brothers the insight and inspiration for the Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree songs as is explained in the Sherman Brothers' joint autobiography, Walt's Time:.
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At that time designer Tony Walton was working on Poppins.
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Tony Walton was English-born, and he was about our age, so we asked him to give us some insight on the Pooh character.
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Tony Walton explained how he had been a chubby little boy, and had felt very insecure.
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Tony Walton married his childhood sweetheart Julie Andrews in 1959, and together they had a daughter, Emma Tony Walton Hamilton.
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Tony Walton said that he fell in love with Andrews when they were children and he saw her playing the egg in a theatre production of Humpty Dumpty.
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Tony Walton died from complications of a stroke at his apartment in New York City on 2 March 2022, at the age of 87.