They say hey died a virgin. Anyone else you know of?
They say hey died a virgin. Anyone else you know of?
OMG really? I never knew that.
What a great guy and what a womanizer too!!! shame he died virtually pennyless and reclusive after all these years in show buisness.
People like mary whitehouse put a stop to benny's antics thus sealing the benny hill show's fate shame really he was very funny.
Oh no.....he didn't die penniless, trust me. The guy probably still had the first dollar he ever earned. The guy left a VERY sizable estate....problem is, he left it to his parents, who had died years before.
It eventually went to his nieces & nephews....amid much fanfare.
I thought this show was sooo funny as a youngen, I remember the tapping sound when he'd tap the head of the little old man..hahahha.......
you dub that theme song over any video and it makes it instantly hilarious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GjNSUatTc4
if ya check scotts web page find a death its all there on benny
apparently his flat was rented and so was his tv-and when he was found dead there were uncashed cheques on the table...... very odd
He was still rocking the black and white television when he died. He seemed like either he was a miser or he really didnt care about materiel possesions or wealth.
I have never heard Benny died a virgin. I do not believe he did.
Apparently he had two great loves of his life and they both rejected him.
He never really recovered from it. He was a kind and decent man, very popular with the people he met over the years but tragically lonely on the inside.
An intensely private man, he once said: "When the one you love doesn't love you, it's hard to sleep at night".
Saw a doco on him once and the guy who found him passed, I think it may have been his manager, said they found him sitting in his chair in front of the tele. He had been there for a few days. When the guy/ manager found him he said some of his hair was sticking up and knowing how Benny felt about his personal appearance he asked the police in attendance if he could fix Benny's hair before they removed him from the flat. Very touching.
Saw the same documentary. Very interesting how he would spend a week vacation with a lady that used to work with him and her two children. And a second week with this disabled lady and take her to the beach for a week. And this wasn't something he did once or twice, he did it for years. He was different for sure, but wasn't so bad.
My only grief with him was that so many of his bits were straight off of I Love Lucy episodes, then with a slight sexy twist.
I used to watch him after my mom and dad went to bed....Tehe!
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]peek-a-boo!!
I never really liked Benny Hill...I really like British humor (Monty Python, Are you being served?, Fawlty Towers), never acquired the Hill taste.
The survival of everyone on board depends on just one thing: finding someone on board who can not only fly this plane, but who didn't have fish for dinner.
I loved Benny Hill. In fact I love most British sitcoms.
I never liked him either. Not my kind of british humour.
And... NO WAY he died as a virgin! hahaha
No...what happened was there was supposedly a note amongst his belongings stating a certain amount of his estate was to go to Dennis Kirkland, Louise English, Sue Upton, and some of the other cast members of his show.
However, since it was never signed, nor notorized, it never stood up in court.
His official, notorized will, made out many years before, left everything to his parents, whom preceeded him in death.
His nephews & nieces being the only possible heirs, they got the bundle.
I am not sure if this is true or not but I seem to remember hearing not long after his death that despite Benny Hill being as popular as he was in the states, he had never visited America.
Yeah, I remember when Benny was here in New York.
It seemed like he was all over the place and he was big news. Benny was in Central Park waving a little American flag, running around and acting crazy. He appeared on tv shows, write ups in newspapers, his program was heavily advertised in commercials.
It was a semi-big thing to have Benny over for a visit. Almost as big as when Blobby came to town! Ha! (kidding).
He died not too much longer after shooting that special. I think it was the last work he ever did.
all i know is when my mom dies im not saving her house to make a shrine of her
n ya i've had sex lol
I never heard he was a virgin I will have to look that up. I loved his show !
Benny Hill never married lived with his mother. He did have relationships with other women but he was a major porn freak who loved to drink/get high and watch some hardcore porn. He had quite a collection but I do recall that he was dead three days before he was found..
I read somewhere that he had a Mother complex, ie was very emotionally attached (and not in a good way) to his mom. Don't know if this is true or not.
Any day above ground is a good day.
Benny lived in my home town of Southampton, UK. There's been a campaign to get a statue erected in his honour. Sadly a lot of people object as he's seen as a sign of a bygone era and no longer relevant. He is buried in Southampton or at least I believe he still is. Someone attempted to exhume him one night in October not sure what year! This came about after rumours circulated in the local press that he'd been buried with all his wealth. It had been rumoured that he was worth £10million but he lived in a prewar semi in Westrow Gardens, Bannister Park, Southampton. His grave can be found at Hollybrook Cemetary, Southampton. No one was ever prosecuted for the grave desecration. (Maybe one day I'll get around to visiting the grave)
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He died with many many cheques in his home that he had never gotten around to taking to the bank. He either didn't want or need the money.
Also, one of Benny's extras from the show i.e. a pretty girl, said the girls were sometimes encouraged to 'please Uncle Benny' (URGH) which meant oral sex. However, a close friend Barry Took said that he 'never had a decent f*** in his life' so I'm guessing he just went as far as oral.
I also heard that he did fall in love with an Australian actress called Annette Andre-and he jokingly proposed to her one night, only for her to turn him down. Turns out he meant it and it broke his heart.
His ultimate fantasy was apparently to take out a normal 'working class girl, like a shop girl' out and dazzle her with good times and gifts. As if he was some kind of high class Maharajah, instead of some grotesque Lewis Caroll child-thing whose sole joke involved chasing a woman around a tree. Didn't like him much, can you tell?
You know I wouldn't be in the least surprised if he was a virgin. He belonged to a time when people didn't have sex before marriage and well, would you date him let alone marry him?
Being a miser doesn't surprise me either, there aren't many stingy bastards in Britain nowadays but back in the early 90s and earlier, I remember so many people of the older generation who thought getting into debt, not putting money away for retirement and generally being flash were all practically criminal offences. People were insecure.
Also, remember how he died on the same day as Frankie Howerd (there's the story about the Benny Hill quote being printed re. Howerd on FAD) I recently heard that described as the Ingmar Bergman-Michalangelo Antonioni-style double-hander of the British comedy scene. (they both died on 30/7/07) It really amused me but in my opinion to reach the heights of those directing greats it would have to be someone really brilliant like Chris Morris and John Cleese dying on the same day. I hope that doesn't happen though.
One of the Hill's Angels admitted she used to give him sexual services in order to get her contract renewed.
Benny lived in a riverside flat in my home town of Teddington. Thames TV was just 10 minutes walk round the corner from his flat and that's where his shows were filmed.
"Two Ton Ted from Teddington" remember?
I used to work at the studios in the Light Entertainment department and although I never spoke to him when I used to pass him in the corridor he used to give me "that look" that always makes me laugh.
He was also a regular at a local pub called the Kings Head where they still have pictures of him up on the wall.
The pub is a very nice pub and he helped to raise a lot of money when the pub was doing any kind of charity fund raising.
That's it, the Fred Scuttle look - that's the look he used to give me. The papers used to try and make out he was weird but the people of Teddington liked him a lot.
He went out to the shops in the town - he walked everywhere, I don't think he had a car - like a regular guy and was friendly to everyone.
Now if only he would have little Jackie Wright with him in the pub, slapping his bald head or lighting a match off of it.LOL
One of the Hill's Angels lives in the small town I used to live in. She's married to a well-known Wales TV children's presenter. I never met them but a friend lived nearby and was friendly with them.
Which Angel was she? I know a few from my lustful teenage angst filled dreams!
I'm sorry I can't remember. I've had a look at imdb to see if I can make an educated guess but most have hardly any bio. If you know which one lives in North Wales, (and there's probably only one) that's her.
I had that anecdote about the "British comedy double-hander" all wrong. The quote was "The low-comedy double-hander" which makes much more sense. Hill on Antonionioni "I know how to say it, I just don't know when to stop."
I may not be a big fan of Hill' comedy but I dig his acting in The Italian Job. I think he does pretty well at expressing the psychology of a pervert in only a few seconds on screen.
there's a great documentary about Benny Hill here on the Net Somewhere. its maybe 90 min long.
The way the UK turned their back on him, after he made them Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much money just makes me sick to my Stomache. It definately gave me a different view than I had before about England.
I have his theme song as my cell phone ring tone. He wass a cool guy. We only saw the American version, The British version was better because they didn't cut the nudity out.
My favorite was and old couple (bald guy and large lady) she was nagging him, in a bank and a robber comes in and grabs the bald guys wife, and yells, anyone moves and she dies, you see bald start to move then he's dancing all over the bank
Classic slap stick
Bryan
I've read that Charlie Chaplin was a big fan of Benny's. Apparently he met Oona Chaplin and was floored when he found out that Charlie ritually watched Benny Hill specials.
There was talk around the time of Benny's death that he had been approached in the hospital by Michael Jackson about returning to the toob. Apparently MJ was a big fan. I remember seeing pics of Benny in hospital doing the Fred Scuttle salute alongside Michael.
Benny seems to be one of those people either really, really like or really, really find distasteful. I enjoyed his little songs but the "jokes" in them got VERY repititive.
Kay
Heard th rumor that he was Ozzy Osbournes father?
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
Heard that, but I don't believe Benny fathered anybody!
Kay
"The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb." Benny Hill
(01/21/1925 â?? 04/20/1992)
English comic actor
RIP DAHLING! Miss you!
I loved Benny Hill. Very funny guy!
RIP Benny
I was sad when he died. He was never a favourite but when he was good he was very good. I can't imagine that he died a virgin but it's not impossible. Was always a bit freaked out about tribute to Frankie Howerd business.
One thing about Benny..he was a man before his time and I adored watching his show, even as a child.
He was great as the Toy Maker in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
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He gave me the creeps, I remember my dad watching it at nite and thinking, what a perverted old man! lol
I cannot beleive he died a virgin...unreal...