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Tony Hendra, who played band manager Ian Faith in This Is Spinal Tap, dies at 79 – 9TheFIX
RIP
Tony Hendra, the British satirist and comic whose roles included top editing positions at magazines such as National Lampoon and Spy and a part in musical mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, died on Thursday in New York. He was 79.
His wife, Carla Meisner, told the New York Times the cause of death was Lou Gehrig’s disease, which the writer was first diagnosed with in 2019.
In Rob Reiner’s 1984 mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, he played Ian Faith, the bumbling band manager who tells Michael McKean’s…
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