Powerpoint Benny Hillyst
TELEVISION
Private life
HIS MOTHER DIED IN 1976 AGED 82.
HILL BECAME A FIRST-DEGREE
FRANCOPHILE
BESIDES MASTERING FRENCH, HILL COULD
GET BY SPEAKING GERMAN, DUTCH AND
ITALIAN IN HIS TRAVELS.
Early career
FIRST APPEARANCE ON TELEVISION WAS
IN 1949 IN "HI THERE "
HE HAD A SHORT-LIVED RADIO
PROGRAMME, "BENNY HILL TIME"
STARTED WORKING "IN THE BENNY HILL
SHOW" IN 1955
"The Benny Hill Show"
HE WAS KNOWN AS A "DIRTY OLD MAN,
TEARING THE CLOTHES OFF NUBILE
GIRLS"
HILL PLAY ED A DIRTY OLD MAN WHO
CHASED WOMEN IN PUBLIC PLACES
"THE BENNY HILL SHOW" WAS A TABOO
IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.
Celebrity fans.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN, WHO DIED IN 1977 WAS A
HUGE FAN OF HILL.
CHAPLIN WAS HILL'S CHILDHOOD IDOL.
OTHER FANS OF HILL ARE:
B.REY NOLDS(MAGNUM), M.CAINE(THE DARK
KNIGHT)
Death
In 1992 April he died of natural causes.
Ironically on the day Hill purportedly died, a new contract
arrived in the post from Central Independent Television.