Profile
Tony Walton
Scenic Designer
Male
Born
Oct 24, 1934
Age
78
Hometown
Surrey
Tony Walton is an English set and costume designer. Walton was born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, United Kingdom. He began his career in 1957 with the stage design for Noel Coward's Broadway production of Conversation Piece. Throughout the late… Read More
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Tony Walton
Age 78
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Emma Walton HamiltonDaughter, Age 50
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1934
Birth
Born on October 24, 1934.
TWENTIES
1957
22 Years Old
Walton was born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England. He began his career in 1957 with the stage design for Noël Coward's Broadway production of Conversation Piece.
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1959
24 Years Old
Walton married his childhood sweetheart Julie Andrews in 1959, and the two had a daughter (Emma Katherine Walton Hamilton). Walton has said that he fell in love with Andrews when they were in their early teens and he saw her playing the egg in a theatre production of Humpty Dumpty. They divorced in 1967 but still remain close chums.
1964
29 Years Old
He entered motion pictures as costume designer and visual consultant for Mary Poppins in 1964, for which he received an Oscar nomination.
THIRTIES
FORTIES
1975
40 Years Old
He has received many Oscar, Emmy and other nominations, including BAFTA nominations for costume and set design for Murder on the Orient Express in 1975 and Oscar nominations for both costume design and set direction/art direction for the motion picture version of The Wiz in 1979.
1980
45 Years Old
His awards include an Oscar for All That Jazz in 1980 and an Emmy for the acclaimed 1985 TV version of Death of a Salesman.
LATE ADULTHOOD
2005
70 Years Old
In December, 2005, for their annual birthday celebration to 'The Master', The Noël Coward Society invited Walton as the guest celebrity to lay flowers in front of Coward's statue at New York's Gershwin Theatre, thereby commemorating the 106th birthday of Sir Noel.
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