1. Anthony McVay Simpson, publishing under the pen name Tony Warren, was an English television screenwriter and actor, best known for creating the ITV soap opera Coronation Street.
19 Facts About Tony Warren
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Tony Warren created other television dramas and wrote critically acclaimed novels.
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Tony Warren trained at the Elliott-Clarke theatre school in Liverpool.
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Tony Warren adopted Warren as a stage name in his early acting career.
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Tony Warren became a regular on BBC Radio Children's Hour and acted in many radio plays, performing with many actors who later became household names through Coronation Street, most notably Violet Carson who played Ena Sharples and Doris Speed who played Annie Walker.
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Tony Warren acted on stage and in several early ITV Plays of the Week.
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Tony Warren has never let me forget my error of judgement.
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Tony Warren wrote all 13 episodes of the serial that ITV initially decided to air.
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Tony Warren was retained by ITV Studios as a consultant to Coronation Street.
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Tony Warren made a cameo appearance in the 50th-anniversary live episode of Coronation Street in December 2010.
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Tony Warren was the subject of a This Is Your Life television programme on 11 October 1995.
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Tony Warren won a number of awards, all in relation to devising Coronation Street.
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Tony Warren received a Special Achievement Award in Soap at the 2000 British Soap Awards and the National Television Landmark Award in 2005.
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In 1994, Tony Warren was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire.
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Tony Warren was openly gay from his early years of Coronation Street, at a time when male homosexual acts were illegal.
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Tony Warren battled with drug and alcohol addiction before attending rehabilitation.
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Tony Warren lived in Swinton, Salford, for over thirty years.
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Tony Warren died on 1 March 2016 after a short illness, aged 79.
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Tony Warren's death was announced on Coronation Street Twitter account.