Tony Walters

Who is Tony Walters?

Antony Walters is an Australian actor, film director, and cocreator of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation television series Double the Fist.

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 Dare TV, a consciously tasteless mock reality show that they sold to Special Broadcasting Service.

They then created material for Fly TV, ABC's digital youth channel, before piloting Double the Fist.

Tony is currently working as a photographer and video journalist for The Sydney Morning Herald.