Tony Booth has been an actor for 40 years, but also wrote comedy scripts and sketches for That Was the Week That Was in the 1960s. He is best-known for his role as Alf Garnett s loutish son-in-law in the long-running Till Death Do Us Part, a role especially created for him by the writer Johnny Speight. He has six children. His eldest daughter Cherie, a barrister, is married to Tony Blair, Prime Minister since 1997.