Released album “Sings Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West)”.
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Benny Hill
Alfred Hawthorne "Benny" Hill was an English comedian, actor, writer and musician. He is best remembered for his television programme The Benny Hill Show, a comedy variety show merging slapstick, burlesque, double entendre and innuendo in live and filmed segments with Hill in almost every one.
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entertainment · English comedy actor (1924–1992) · actor · comedian · film actor · singer · screenwriter · television actor · also Benny Hill, Alfred Hawthorne Hill, Hill
Born 21 January 1924 · Died 20 April 1992 · Q200228
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2006· 1 entry
Hill was voted by the British public number 17 in ITV's poll of TV's 50 Greatest Stars
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2005· 1 entry
Released album “Eclectic”.
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2000· 1 entry
Carolla performed in what was billed as a tribute to "our favourite Englishman, Sir Benny Hill" (sic; Hill was never knighted), in more risqué versions of some of the sketches
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1998· 2 entries
Released album “The Ultimate Collection”.
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Channel 4 featured Hill in one of its Heroes of Comedy programmes
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1992· 4 entries
Released album “Ernie”.
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Died 1992-04-20.
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Released album “The Best Of Benny Hill”.
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Actress Annette Andre said that she turned down his marriage proposal in the early 1960s
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1991· 1 entry
Hill started work on a new television series called Benny Hill's World Tour, which would see Hill performing his sketches around the world in places his show had become popular
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1990· 2 entries
Burgess described Hill as "a comic genius steeped in the British music hall tradition" (as were Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel, two of Hill's childhood idols) and "one of the great artists of our age"
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Anthony Burgess described Hill as "a comic genius steeped in the British music hall tradition"
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1987· 1 entry
Genesis filmed a video for their song "Anything She Does", featuring Hill as his character Fred Scuttle, portraying an incompetent security guard who lets a ridiculous number of fans backstage at a Genesis concert
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1976· 1 entry
Cherri Gilham, to whom he wrote from Spain, telling her he was using her "Fat Lady" idea on the show in January 1977
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1971· 1 entry
Released album “Words and Music”.
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1969· 1 entry
His show moved from the BBC to Thames Television, where it remained until its cancellation in 1989, with an erratic schedule of one-hour specials
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1964· 1 entry
Played Nick Bottom in an all-star TV film production of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
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1955· 1 entry
Was among the most-watched programmes in the UK; his audience was more than 21 million in 1971
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1954· 1 entry
Was voted television personality of the year
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1949· 1 entry
Appeared on BBC variety shows where he developed his parodic sketches and, in 1954, was voted television personality of the year
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1942· 1 entry
And trained as a mechanic in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, British Army
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1924· 1 entry
Born 1924-01-21.
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