Download or read book Funny Peculiar written by Mark Lewisohn and published by Pan Books Limited. This book was released on 2003 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benny Hill`s saucy smirks at underdressed women are relished the world over. Yet the comedian cut an unlikely figure of global admiration: unmarried and emotionally enfeebled in his few relationships, he was a deeply private individual uninterested in the trappings of success, a frugal man content to live in his humble childhood home flooded, freezing and burgled while his building society account bulged with millions of pounds he didn`t use and hadn`t wanted to earn. Funny, Peculiar is the first objective and full account of Benny Hill`s life and work. Tenaciously researched and yet sensitively reported, it charts the highs, lows and many paradoxes of a man whose professional strengths-observation, impression and mime-bought him unimagined success, and whose weakness, especially an inability to change, fashioned his ultimate downfall. - First in-depth biography since Benny`s death in April 1992. - A return to favour with audiences who are jaded with `alternative comedy`. - Existing biographies are unreliable, lightweight and out of date. - Benny has been screened in 109 countries, and enjoyed for over 50 years

Download or read book The Strange and Saucy World of Benny Hill written by Dennis Kirkland and published by Blake Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Benny Hill written by Robert Ross and published by B. T. Batsford Limited. This book was released on 1999 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text tracks Benny Hill's career through the landamrk Independent Television specials, early BBC parody sketches, film appearances, and radio shows and recordings. It examines his skillful use of the fledgling TV medium and celebrates the support of his regular backup team.

Download or read book I Was Benny Hill s Toy Boy A Life in Variety written by Brian W. Kearney and published by . This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kearney presents a revealing look into the life of Jon Jon Keefe, actor, comedian, singer, and companion to the stars. The text offers unique insight into Benny Hill, Billy Ekstein, Tony Bennett, Tommy Cooper, Jimmy Tarbuck, Dusty Springfield, and Eartha Kitt.

Download or read book Benny Hill s World New York written by Benny Hill and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Benny Hill Merry Master of Mirth written by Robert Ross and published by Batsford Books. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benny Hill is the best known and best loved British comedian on world television - from the USA to the Pacific Rim. Feted for his unique brand of coy awareness, innuendo and saucy songs - but seemingly out of favour in his homeland before his death - Benny Hill can now be rated as having had one of the foremost careers in comedy. Robert Ross tracks Hill's career through the landmark Independent Television specials, early parody sketches for the BBC, film appearances, radio shows and recordings - including the No. 1 hit 'Ernie, the Fastest Milkman in the West'. Ross examines Hill's skillful use of the fledgling TV medium, and celebrates the support of his regular back-up team (Bob Todd, Henry McGee and Nicholas Parsons). The truth is revealed about Hill's Angels and the alternative comedy backlash that saw Hill pushed off the small screen in the UK. Benny Hill is the ultimate guide to the most widely recognised funny man since Charlie Chaplin.

Download or read book Benny Hill written by Robert Monkhouse and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-26 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Benny Hill Collection written by Benny Hill and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Benny Hill written by Harry Lime and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-03-20 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Benny Hill Story written by John Smith and published by Isis Large Print Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Funny Peculiar written by Mark Lewisohn and published by MacMillan UK. This book was released on 2002 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Illustrated Benny Hill written by Gary Morecambe and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Benny Hill written by Jeremy Novick and published by Carlton Publishing Group. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benny Hill is one of the best-known British comedians in the world. A master of the visual gag, his mixture of schoolboy humour and slapstick made him a household name in over 30 countries. Renowned for his lascivious leer and high-speed silent chase sequences with which he would end every episode of The Benny Hill Show, he was a constant presence on television for more than twenty years.

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Download or read book Benny written by Dennis Kirkland and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of entertainer Benny Hill as told by his best friend and producer for twenty years.

Download or read book The Best of Benny Hill written by Benny Hill and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Benny Hill written by Benny Hill and published by . This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of favorite episodes of the Benny Hill Show. Enjoy seeing Benny as an incorruptable super cop, in a Caribbean fantasy, launching "scuttlevision", unveiling the history of mankind, and much more.