Harry Enfield

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Henry Richard Enfield (born 30 May 1961)is an English comedian, actor, writer and director. He is known in particular for his television work, including Harry Enfield's Television Programme and Harry & Paul, and for the creation and portrayal of comedy characters such as Kevin the Teenager, Loadsamoney, Smashie and Nicey, The Scousers, Tim Nice-But-Dim and Mr "You Don't Want to Do It Like That". Born in Horsham, Sussex, he is the eldest of four children (and only son) of English television, radio and newspaper journalist and presenter Edward Enfield and his wife, Deirdre Jenkins. The Enfield family are descendants of the nineteenth-century philanthropist Edward Enfield. He was educated at the independent Arundale School in Pulborough, Dorset House School, Worth School, Collyer's Sixth Form College (all in West Sussex) and the University of York, where he was a member of Derwent College and studied politics. He squatted in Hackney and worked for a while as a milkman Enfield first came to wide public attention when appearing on Channel 4's Saturday Live as several different characters created with Paul Whitehouse. These quickly entered the national consciousness. Among these characters were Stavros, a Greek kebab shop owner with fractured English; and Loadsamoney, an obnoxious plasterer who constantly boasted about how much money he earned. The Loadsamoney character was created in reaction to the policies of the Thatcher government of the day, and took on a life of its own, sampling the songs "Money, Money" from the musical Cabaret and "Money, Money, Money" by ABBA to spawn a hit single in 1988 and a sell-out live tour.[5] In May 1988, Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock used the term loadsamoney to criticise the policies of the Conservative government and journalists began to refer to the "loadsamoney mentality" and the "loadsamoney economy". As a foil to Loadsamoney, Enfield and Whitehouse created the Geordie "Bugger-All-Money" and in 1988 Enfield appeared as both characters during the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute Concert at Wembley Stadium. In time, Whitehouse and Enfield became disturbed that Loadsamoney was being seen in a positive light, rather than as a satirical figure, and they had him run over during a Comic Relief Red Nose Day show while leaving the studio after presenting host Lenny Henry with "the biggest cheque of the night"—a physically huge cheque for ten pence. Enfield created "Tory Boy", a character which portrayed a young male Conservative Member of Parliament (MP).

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  • wc Gender: Male
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1961-05-30
  • event Death Date Unknown
  • school Known for: Acting
  • star Popularity: 2.4
  • info Birth Place Horsham, Sussex, England, UK
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5

Kevin & Perry Go Large

2000-04-20

5.3

Churchill: The Hollywood Years

2004-12-03

3.5

Tooth

2004-02-13

5

Hitler: The Comedy Years

2007-05-10

7.4

The One Ronnie

2010-12-25

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When Comedy Changed Forever

2006-03-07

6.7

Bob's Birthday

1994-10-01

7

Smashie and Nicey's Top of the Pops Party

1994-01-04

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Pickles: The Dog Who Won the World Cup

2006-06-03

8

Sir Norbert Smith, a Life

1989-11-03

5.3

Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe

2002-12-13

7.7

The Itch of the Golden Nit

2011-06-28

6.7

Preferably Blue

2011-03-13

10

Roger Mellie: The Man on the Telly

1991-12-30

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Harry Enfield: Live In Concert

1997-07-07

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Filth!

1994-04-24

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30 Years of Comic Strip

2012-11-03

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Nuclear Bogeyheads

8

The Love Box in Your Living Room

2022-10-27

6.1

Scottish Mussel

2015-06-26

6.5

Top Gear: Back in the Fast Lane

2003-10-26

5.7

The Bad Education Movie

2015-08-21

5

Prince Andrew: The Musical

2022-12-29

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Harry Enfield's Brand Spanking New Video

2002-09-30

6

Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire

2002-12-13

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Spike Milligan I told you I was ill... A live tribute

2002-10-05

5.3

Red Top

2016-01-20

7.8

The Hunt for Tony Blair

2011-10-15

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Harry Enfield Undressed

1999-10-01

6.3

Swallows and Amazons

2016-08-19

8

Harry Enfield Presents Kevin's Guide to Being a Teenager

1999-12-27

7.1

Blackadder: The Cavalier Years

1988-02-05

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The Tunnel

2010-04-23

5

Robbie the Reindeer in Close Encounters of the Herd Kind

2007-12-25

7

An Evening with Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse

2015-08-31

7.3

Stella Street

2004-01-26

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Acts of Godfrey

2012-01-27

7

Smashie and Nicey: The End of an Era

1994-04-04

5

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades

2002-04-14

10

Billy the Fish

1990-06-30

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Suit You Sir! The Inside Leg Of The Fast Show

1999-09-11

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Viz: The Documentary

1990-05-04

7

Harry & Paul's Story of the 2s

2014-05-25

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The Englishman and His Jukebox

1989-03-17

6

Capital

2019-01-11

6.5

The Fast Show: Just a Load of Blooming Catchphrases

2020-08-29

5.3

What Rats Won't Do

1998-07-01

5

How Europe Stole My Mum

2019-10-31

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Best Ever Spitting Image

2006-07-25

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Employees From Hell

1989-01-01

0

Peter Cook: At a Slight Angle to the Universe

2002-01-12

10

Jazz Emu: Ego Death

2025-01-23

7.5

Top Gear

2002-10-20

7.3

Men Behaving Badly

1992-02-18

8.1

Skins

2007-01-25

7

Monkey Trousers

2005-05-20

7.2

Harry Enfield's Television Programme

1990-11-08

4.6

The One Show

2006-08-14

7.1

Spitting Image

1984-02-26

4.8

Girls On Top

1985-10-23

6.6

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

1992-03-04

2

RI:SE

2002-04-29

6.6

Harry & Paul

2005-09-20

7.7

Would I Lie to You?

2007-06-16

8

Norbert Smith – a Life

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Celeb

2002-09-06

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FBi

2000-04-22

7.1

Harry Enfield and Chums

1994-11-04

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Friday Night Live

1988-02-19

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Classic British Aircraft

8

Harry Enfield's Brand Spanking New Show

2000-09-11

7.1

Upstart Crow

2016-05-09

8

Rove

1999-09-22

6.5

The Windsors

2016-05-06

5.2

Walliams & Friend

2016-11-28

7

Bad Education

2012-08-14

7.1

Citizen Khan

2012-08-27

7.1

Have I Got News for You

1990-09-28

4.5

Wogan

1982-05-04

5

Terry Wogan's Friday Night

1992-10-09

5.7

Duck Quacks Don't Echo

2014-02-07

7.4

Michael McIntyre's Big Show

2016-04-16

6

Going Live!

1987-09-26

6

Gone to the Dogs

1991-11-29

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Island of Dreams

2019-01-03

7.2

The Graham Norton Show

2007-02-22

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The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything

2000-01-02

5

Question Time

1979-09-25

6.7

Saturday Live

1986-01-25

6.6

Filthy Rich & Catflap

1987-01-07

7.5

French & Saunders

1987-03-09

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Parkinson

1998-01-09

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Harry Enfield Presents

2001-01-05

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