Tommy Hanlon

ABOUT TOMMY HANLON

Australian television show host who earned two Logie awards for his work on the 1960's game show, It Could Be You.

He started performing as a magician when he was a teenager and worked with Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre in Los Angeles in the 1940s for two years.

He bought into Ashton's Circus in 1967 and toured Australia as a ringmaster of Silvers Circus until 2001.

He was married to his wife, Muriel and he had a daughter, April, a son named Tommy and a stepson named Jeff.

He hosted the talent show, Pot of Gold with judge, Bernard King in the 1970s.