Andy de la Tour

Andy de la Tour (born 1948) is an English actor and screenwriter.

De la Tour has appeared in the films Plenty, Notting Hill, Roman Polanski's Oliver Twist, 44 Inch Chest, The Confessions and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and on the television series The Young Ones, Filthy Rich & Catflap, Bottom, Kavanagh QC and The Brief. On stage, he has appeared at the National Theatre in Harold Pinter's No Man's Land in 2001 and Alan Bennett's People in 2012. His credits as a television writer include Boon, Lovejoy, Peak Practice, The Vet, Kavanagh QC and Clem. He wrote the stage play Safe In Our Hands (winner of the LWT Plays on Stage Award).

As a stand-up comedian, he appeared in the 1980s with Rik Mayall, Ben Elton and French and Saunders. In 2012, he wrote Stand-Up or Die about his time as a stand-up comedian in New York. He appeared as George Porter in episode 13 of series 31 of Casualty "Not in Holby Anymore". On 6 June 2018 he appeared as Ted, an aging mechanic with a heart defect in BBC1's lunchtime soap Doctors.

Personal life

Andy de la Tour is the brother of actress Frances de la Tour and partner of actress Susan Wooldridge.

The University of Kent holds an archive of material from de la Tour's career as part of the British Stand-Up Comedy Archive. The archive includes audiovisual recordings, promotional material, and photographs.

On 27 January 2019, he signed an open letter in The Guardian expressing opposition to the USA's handling of the political situation in Venezuela and calling for more dialogue with the president, Nicolás Maduro. In September 2025, he signed an open pledge with Film Workers for Palestine pledging not to work with Israeli film institutions "that are implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people."

Filmography

Film

Television

External links

• at IMDb
• at University of Kent