Antony "Tony" Walters is an Australian actor, film director, and cocreator of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation television series Double the Fist.[1]
Born on the 9th of April, 1962. Walters met his collaborator Craig Anderson when they were performing absurdist theatre at the University of Western Sydney in the mid-1990s. Bryan Moses, the third member of their team was there at the same time making films. They teamed up on the short film Life in a Datsun, which won best comedy at the 1999 Tropfest film festival, where they met Doug Bayne, another entrant who created casual computer effects. The foursome created Video Dare, a consciously tasteless mock reality show that they sold to Special Broadcasting Service.[2]
They then created material for Fly TV, ABC's digital youth channel, before piloting Double the Fist.[2]
He has a partner and a young daughter who he absolutely adores and has no desire for another.
Walters is currently working as a photographer and video journalist for The Sydney Morning Herald.