 He directed a 1997 film adaptation of the long-running "Prince Valiant" comic strip starring Stephen Moyer as the eponymous character.Anthony "Tony" Hickox was born in 1959 in Hampstead, London to a family of filmmakers.He is the eldest son of the director Douglas Hickox and Academy Award-winning editor Anne V. Coates and elder brother of editor Emma E. Hickox and James D.R.