Editing Tony Hancock (section)

== Biographical texts ==
* {{cite book |last1=Hancock |first1=Freddie Ross |last2=Nathan |first2=David |author1-link=Freddie Ross Hancock |author2-link=David Nathan (journalist) |title=Hancock |date=1969 |publisher=William Kimber & Co. ([[Thorsons]]) |location=London  |edition= |via=[[archive.org]] |url=https://archive.org/details/hancock0000hanc_w5o8 |language=en}} {{ open access}} {{Registration required}} 
* {{cite book |last1=Wilmut |first1=Roger |author1-link=Roger Wilmut |title=Tony Hancock "artiste": A Tony Hancock Companion |date=1978 |publisher=[[Eyre Methuen]] |edition= |via=[[archive.org]] |url=https://archive.org/details/tonyhancockartis0000wilm |language=en}} {{ open access}} {{Registration required}} 
::with details of Hancock's stage, radio, TV and film appearances
* Edward Joffe ''Hancock's Last Stand: The Series That Never Was'', June 1998, foreword by [[June Whitfield]], Book Guild Ltd Publishing, {{ISBN|1-85776-316-5}} 
::an account of Hancock's final days, written by the man who found Hancock's body after his suicide
* {{cite book |last1=Goodwin |first1=Cliff |title=When the Wind Changed: The Life and Death of Tony Hancock |date=1999 |publisher=Century ([[Penguin Random House]])<!-- ??? Century, an imprint of Cornerstone, formerly part of Random House, now Penguin Random House ??? -->|isbn=978-0-7126-7615-1 |url=https://archive.org/details/whenwindchangedl0000good |language=en}} {{ open access}} {{Registration required}} <ref name="thefreelibrary/a060531022">{{cite news |last1=Reyburn |first1=Ross |title=(Review) Hancock's half-hearted fame; When the Wind Changed - The Life and Death of Tony Hancock by Cliff Goodwin (Century, pounds 17.99) |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Hancock%27s+half-hearted+fame%3B+When+the+Wind+Changed+-+The+Life+and...-a060531022 |access-date=22 April 2025 |work=[[The Birmingham Post]] |agency=|via=[[Free Online Library]] |date=June 26, 1999}}</ref>
* {{cite book |last1=Fisher |first1=John |title=Tony Hancock: The Definitive Biography |date=22 December 2008 |publisher=[[HarperCollins UK]] |isbn=978-0-00-728778-9 |language=en}}<ref name="Callow/bio-tony-hancock">{{cite news |last1=Callow |first1=Simon |author1-link=Simon Callow |title=The lad himself |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/dec/27/biography-tony-hancock |access-date=23 April 2025 |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=27 December 2008}}</ref>