Tony Robinson

Biography

Tony Robinson is an actor, presenter and writer as well as an active ambassador of Alzheimer's Society.

Tony is best known for playing Baldrick in the BBC television series Blackadder and presenting Channel 4's Time Team as well as The Worst Jobs in History. Tony also created and starred in the popular children's programme Maid Marian and her Merry Men and is the author of a number of children's book.

Both of Tony's parents, Leslie and Phyllis, died with dementia. Tony filmed the final days of his mother's life in a powerfully moving documentary called Me and My Mum.

Tony's support for people with dementia and their carers includes launching the Society's Putting Care Right campaign, speaking out at Parliamentary receptions to ensure the voices of people with dementia are heard as well as launching our London Memory Walk in 2009. 

'People with dementia are too often deprived of the right to a decent quality of life. Shamefully, this is not at the top of the national agenda, but it does matter to organisations like the Alzheimer's Society.'

Tony Robinson supports us because

• 700,000 people in the UK today live with dementia, most getting little or no support
• By 2018 there will be over 800,000 people living with dementia.

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• Find out more about dementia and Alzheimer's disease
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