--- name: "Benny Hill" canonical: "https://film.one/person/benny-hill" fi1m_id: "benny-hill" imdb_id: "nm0001350" tmdb_id: 55879 wikidata_id: "Q200228" roles: ["Actor"] born: "21 January 1924" died: "20 April 1992" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-24T02:18:50.048567+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Benny Hill ## Identity Benny Hill - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/benny-hill - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** benny-hill - **IMDb ID:** nm0001350 - **TMDB ID:** 55879 - **Wikidata ID:** Q200228 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Hill, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q200228, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001350/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/55879 Actor. Born 21 January 1924 in Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK. Died 20 April 1992. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 21 January 1924, Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK - **Died:** 20 April 1992 - **Also known as:** Бенни Хилл, Alfred Hawthorn «Benny» Hill, Alfred Hawthorn Hill, Альфред Хоторн «Бенни» Хилл, Альфред Хоторн Хилл - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Hill, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q200228, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001350/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/55879 ## Streaming the US now - **Apple TV:** [*Chitty Chitty Bang Bang*](https://film.one/film/chitty-chitty-bang-bang.md) (70) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Benny Hill (born Alfred Hawthorne Hill) was an English comedian and actor. He was born on 21 January 1924 in Southampton, Hampshire, and died in 1992. Hill began his career in variety theatre after wartime service and made his television debut in the late 1940s. He is best known for *The Benny Hill Show* (1955–1989), a long-running comedy variety series. His film roles include Fire Chief Perkins in *Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines* (1965), the Toymaker in *Chitty Chitty Bang Bang* (1968), Professor Simon Peach in *The Italian Job* (1969), and appearances in other comedies. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, screenonline.org.uk.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Chitty Chitty Bang Bang* (1968), Fi1m 70, as Toymaker — [page](https://film.one/film/chitty-chitty-bang-bang.md) ## Complete filmography (20) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Le Meilleur de Benny Hill - L'intégrale* (2003), as Benny Hill - *Benny Hill: The Lost Years - Bennies from Heaven* (2000), as Various · Writer - *Benny Hill: The Lost Years - The Good, the Bawd and the Benny* (2000), as Various - *Benny Hill: The Lost Years - Benny and the Jests* (2000), as Various · Writer - *Benny Hill - Unseen* (1994), as Various/Archive footage · Screenplay - *Benny Hill's World Tour: New York!* (1991), Writer, Music - *Benny Hill Show* (1980), series, as Creator - *Benny Hill Down Under* (1977), as Host / Various · Music, Writer - *The Best of Benny Hill* (1974), Writer - *Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West)* (1971), as Ernie Price · Writer, Music - *Eddie in August* (1970), as Eddie · Producer, Director, Screenplay - *The Benny Hill Show* (1969), series, as Creator - *The Waiters* (1969), as Waiter · Writer - *The Italian Job* (1969), as Professor Simon Peach - *Chitty Chitty Bang Bang* (1968), as Toymaker — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/chitty-chitty-bang-bang.md) - *Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes* (1965), as Fire Chief Perkins - *A Midsummer Night's Dream* (1964), as Bottom - *Benny Hill* (1962), series, Actor - *Light Up the Sky!* (1960), as Syd McCaffey - *Who Done It?* (1956), as Hugo Dill ## Gallery - ![Benny Hill](https://film.one/media/person/1777074/gallery-f2f678bfeb32.jpg) Benny Hill — Ricardo Liberato, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Benny_Hill.JPG/1280px-Benny_Hill.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Marble slab covering the tomb of Alfred Hawthorne "Benny" Hill. (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/1777074/gallery-9f57a23945e6.jpg) Marble slab covering the tomb of Alfred Hawthorne "Benny" Hill. (2016) — Cplbeaudoin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Benny_Hill_Tombstone.jpg/1280px-Benny_Hill_Tombstone.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![He used to live here. Queensgate, Kensington (2008)](https://film.one/media/person/1777074/gallery-6857dfc8fc8c.jpg) He used to live here. Queensgate, Kensington (2008) — Maggie Jones, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Queensgate_-_Benny_Hill%27s_boot_scraper.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Teddington Riverside, Benny Hill, Comic Heritage plaque (2022)](https://film.one/media/person/1777074/gallery-ceb40d2abdd3.jpg) Teddington Riverside, Benny Hill, Comic Heritage plaque (2022) — AndyScott, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Teddington_Riverside%2C_Benny_Hill%2C_Comic_Heritage_plaque.jpg/1280px-Teddington_Riverside%2C_Benny_Hill%2C_Comic_Heritage_plaque.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Benny Hill](https://film.one/media/person/1777074/gallery-7dc20a67e551.jpg) Benny Hill — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. 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