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Freddie Ross Hancock : ウィキペディア英語版
Freddie Ross Hancock
Freda "Freddie" Ross Hancock MBE (born Freda Ross, 7 April 1930) is a British-born, New York-based entertainment industry marketing consultant and the founder of the East Coast branch of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts ().
Ross started her career in the British entertainment industry as a publicist and/or agent for some of Britain's leading entertainers of the 1950s and 1960s. Initially she focused on comedic performers such as Benny Hill, Harry H. Corbett,〔()〕 Dick Emery, Bob Monkhouse, Terry Scott, Hugh Lloyd, Sheila Hancock and Tony Hancock. She represented Tony Hancock from 1954 onwards, helping guide him to his greatest public and critical successes on radio and television. The couple started their romantic relationship in 1957 and after the comedian divorced his first wife, they married in December 1965. However, their marriage was affected by Tony Hancock's drinking and self-destructive traits.〔()〕
Unable to save Tony Hancock from his chronic alcoholism, she initiated a divorce in 1968. His personal and professional life spiraling downwards, Tony Hancock committed suicide while working in Australia in June 1968 before the divorce was finalised.
She was in demand for her services and was also engaged to promote films and stage shows. Clients included Universal-International (the then UK arm of Universal Pictures) - which hired her to promote Shelley Winters, Rock Hudson, Piper Laurie among many - and the Coral Leisure Group.
Other entertainers, actors, musicians, writers, sports personalities and celebrities who engaged Hancock while she worked in the UK include Sophia Loren, Carlo Ponti, Julie Andrews, Theo Bikel, Topol, Billie Whitelaw, Jim Dale, Keith Waterhouse, Willis Hall, Ted Heath, Ray Martin, Norrie Paramor, Eddie Calvert, Rose Brennan, Janie Marden, Gerry and the Pacemakers, racing driver Stirling Moss, Wimbledon champion Angela Buxton, and Australian golfer Peter Thomson.
In November 1988, she organised the official 80th birthday celebrations given in New York for British broadcaster Alistair Cooke by the BBC for which she secured the musical services of James Galway and Leonard Bernstein and a personal video greeting from President Ronald Reagan.
In the 1990s and 2000s, Hancock served as the Senior Vice President of Acquisitions for the movie distributor American Video Films She has been the US representative of the UK's leading bottled water company Highland Spring.〔 since 1996.
In her role as Founder and Vice Chairman of BAFTA East Coast, Hancock was the primary instigator and facilitator in the appointment of film mogul Harvey Weinstein as a Commander of the British Empire for Weinstein's services to the British film industry. Hancock also arranged the investiture ceremony held in Manhattan in November 2004.
She was appointed Vice Chairman of the US wing of the Royal Television Society.
In 1969 she wrote ''Hancock'', a biography of her late husband, Tony Hancock, with the journalist David Nathan. In a 1991 BBC television dramatisation of the life of Tony Hancock, she is played by the British actress Frances Barber.
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