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Benny Hill
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Screenwriter, Composer (Music Score), Actor, Songwriter Born: January 21, 1925 in Southhampton, England, UK Death: April 20, 1992 in London, England, UK Biography:From boyhood, British entertainer "Benny Hill" dreamed of being the principal comedian in a stage review, but the immediacies of eating interfered, so he took such jobs as milkman, bridge operator and drummer. At 16, "Hill" landed his first gig as a comic, headlining a troupe of 12 lovely young ladies. He played the provinces for years, somehow always missing out on his target arena of London. "Hill" learned his distinctive down-to-earth style from watching American comedians like "Danny Thomas" and "Danny Kaye", performers who slid into the comic punch line rather than hammering it to death like most British musical hall comics. As his jobs increased in stature, Benny tried briefly to be a film star, but his first movie "Who Done It?" (1956) turned out to be a "who saw it?" His popularity growing thanks to a series of antic television commercials, "Hill" began performing regularly on the BBC-TV... Full Biography
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