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Tony Hendra, Who Played Band Manager Ian Faith in ‘This Is Spinal Tap,’ Dies at 79

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Natalie Oganesyan editorTony 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 Yonkers, N.Y.

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 character that having a gig in Boston canceled isn’t a big deal because “It’s not a big college town.”Hendra began writing and performing comedy while a student at Cambridge University, working alongside future.

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