Tony was born in London. At school he won prizes for his writing and with some friends ran a successful underground school magazine. By 18 Tony was making films that received wide public distribution. Tony lectures at universities, makes films and writes. Over a distinguished career Tony headed several media companies both in the UK and USA. He has made more than 500 media productions of all types. He ran film production courses at the Northern and Bournemouth Film Schools and was director of the Media Production Centre at the University of East London.