Benny Hill
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Funny, Peculiar
Benny Hill's saucy smirks and lascivious glances at underdressed women are relished across all continents by all creeds. Yet he cut an unlikely figure of global admiration: he was a deeply private individual, a loner, uninterested in money and the trappings of success. With the circus and sex in his background (his father sold condoms worldwide from a Southampton backstreet shop) Benny combined the two in a career that, after many struggles, took off in the earliest days of television. Acclaimed in the 1950s as the first British TV comedy superstar, loved for his pioneering ideas and mild 'seaside-postcard' humour, Hill's popularity remained undimmed for decades. But in the 1980s, just as he became a hit in more than 100 countries, he was reviled in Britain. His innuendo-strewn humour was branded sexist, a charge he could not comprehend. Unmarried and emotionally enfeebled in his few meaningful relationships, Benny's primary aim was to be seen in the company of scantily clad women. His TV show enabled this, but its sudden end in 1989 was followed by a self-inflicted decline in his health. Benny died in 1992, his body lay undiscovered for two days and the destiny of his £7m estate was controversial.
Benny Hill
Alfred Hawthorne "Benny" Hill, born on 21st January 1924, Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK, was a comedian and actor, best remembered for his TV programme The Benny Hill Show, an amalgam of slapstick, burlesque and double entendre, in a format that included live comedy and filmed segments with Hill at the focus of almost every segment. Hill was a prominent figure in British culture for nearly 4 decades, his show becoming one of the great success stories of TV comedy, being was among the most-watched programmes in the UK, with an audience of over 21 million in 1971. The Benny Hill Show was exported to 97 countries around the world.
The Strange and Saucy World of Benny Hill
How and why did Benny Hill live the way he did? If he was so rich, why didn't he buy himself a beautiful home? Why did he never marry and did he only pretend to love the ladies? And whatever did he do with all that money? In this biography, Dennis Kirkland answers all these questions and more.