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Benny Hill, born Alfred Hawthorne Hill on January 21, 1924, in Southampton, was a British actor, comedian, film actor, and singer. He began his professional work period in 1940 and was influenced by Jack Benny and Charlie Chaplin. Hill was a citizen of the United Kingdom and spoke English. His musical career included releases on Pye Records, with his voice serving as his primary instrument.
His notable works include *Summer*, *Spring*, *Benny Hill*, *Benny Hill Time*, and *The Best of Benny Hill*. He is also associated with the quote, "That's what show business is—sincere insincerity." Hill died of coronary thrombosis from natural causes in Teddington. Records indicate his death occurred on either April 18 or April 20, 1992.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 5
Top works
- Summer
- Spring
- Benny Hill
- Benny Hill Time
- The Best of Benny Hill
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK
Alfred Hawthorne "Benny" Hill (21 January 1924 – 20 April 1992) was an English comedian, actor and scriptwriter. He's best remembered for his TV program, The Benny Hill Show, a comedy-variety show whose amalgam of slapstick, burlesque, double entendre and innuendo in a format that included both live and filmed segments, featured Hill himself at the focus of almost every segment.
Known for
- The Cancellation of Benny Hill — Self (Archival)2025
- Is Benny Hill Still Funny? — Self (Archival)2006
- I Was A Hill's Angel — Self - Archive2006
- Le Meilleur de Benny Hill - L'intégrale — Benny Hill2003
- The Filth and the Fury — Self (archive footage)2000
- Benny Hill: The Lost Years - The Good, the Bawd and the Benny — Various2000
- Benny Hill: The Lost Years - Benny and the Jests — Various2000
- Benny Hill: The Lost Years - Bennies from Heaven — Various2000
- Benny Hill - Unseen — Various/Archive footage1994
- Benny Hill: The World's Favorite Clown — Himself1992
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Austria
- Active from
- 1924
- Active to
- 1992
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 34,929
- Total plays
- 188,846
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Alfred Hawthorn Hill (21 January 1924 – 20 April 1992), better known as Benny Hill, was a prolific English comic, actor & singer, best known for his television programme, The Benny Hill Show. Since its debut in 1969 his television show has been sold to over 140 countries worldwide, with viewership in the millions. The song "Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In the West)" is a bit autobiographical. Benny Hill had been a milkman in Eastleigh, Hampshire, working for Hanns Dairy whose premises was yards w
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,901x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,787x
- The Elastic Behaviour of a Crystalline Aggregate
· 1952 · cited 10,554x
- Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 10,235x
- Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,654x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “That's what show business is—sincere insincerity.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
~20 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Alfred Hawthorne "Benny" Hill (21 January 1924 – 18 April 1992) 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.
The BFI called Hill "the first British comedian to attain fame through television" and "a major star for over forty years". Making his television debut in 1949, he appeared on BBC variety shows where he developed his parodic sketches and, in 1954, was voted television personality of the year. The Benny Hill Show, which debuted in 1955, was among the most-watched programmes in the UK; his audience was more than 21 million in 1971. The show was also exported to over 100 countries, a global appeal which the BFI attributed to "Hill's emphasis on visual humour transcending language barriers".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Benny Hill” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.