Benny Hill

Born Alfred Hawthorne Hill (January 21, 1924 - April 20, 1992), Benny Hill was a prolificpłodny comic British actor. He worked compulsively and had only a few friends, although colleagues who knew him closely insist that he was never lonely, but was content with his own company.

Career
His television program, The Benny Hill Show, featured him in innumerable short sketches (along withrazem z, wraz z Henry McGee, Carol Cleveland, and others) portraying a leeringto leer: spoglądać pożądliwie, uśmiechać się pożądliwie, lecherouslubieżny, rozpustny, never-quite-succeeding, yetprzynajmniej, jednak, a mimo to charmingczarujący, uroczy protagonistbohater. Slapstick and double entendredwuznaczność were his hallmarkcecha charakterystyczna, znamię. He used speeded up film and sight gags to create what he called "live animation". He was also a skilled composer and singer of pattertrajkotanie, gwara songs. His shows were seen in over 100 countries across the world.

Benny Hill had been on television in Britain since the 1950s, much of it on the BBC. In 1969, his show began production on ITV, where it remained until cancellation with an erratic schedulekręty program of one hour specials. The show was first broadcast in the United States in January 1979 and screened there with a series of re-edited half hour programs culledto cull: wybierać, selekcjonować from the ITV specials. The US versions of his show have far less risque material that is prohibited from transmission in the US.

The Benny Hill Show (1969-1989) is in syndicationrozpowszechnianie, rozprowadzanie and is available on videotape in the US (ironically, there is far less material currently available in the UK). The syndicated version consists of 111 half-hour episodes, re-edited from the original hour-long specials made by Thames Television and screened on Britain's ITV network three or four times a year. Half-hour edits also appeared on ITV, although the contents may be different from the syndicated versions. In 1989 Thames dropped Hill because his material was no longer considered politically correctpolitycznie poprawny. He later recorded some shows for US television.

Hill's health began decliningto decline: pogarszać się in the early 1990s, and on February 11, 1992 doctors recommended a heart bypass. He declined, and was diagnosed a week later with renal failureniewydolność nerki. Hill passed awayto pass away: odchodzić, umierać "on or about April 20", alone in his house, at the age of 68. The cause of death was listed as coronary thrombosiszakrzepica tętnicy wieńcowej. Neighbors found his body on April 24 sitting in an armchair.

Benny Hill's will had left his estatespadek to his long-dead parents. An amendedpoprawiony, zmieniony will was later found, but because it was not notarized his Ł10 million (GBP) estatespadek did not go to those close to him, such as his good friend Sue Upton, but was divided among seven nieces and nephews.

Url źródłowy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Hill

Słowniczek

prolific
 

płodny

along with
 

razem z, wraz z

leering
to leer

spoglądać pożądliwie, uśmiechać się pożądliwie

lecherous
 

lubieżny, rozpustny

yet
 

przynajmniej, jednak, a mimo to

charming
 

czarujący, uroczy

protagonist
 

bohater

slapstick
 

błazenada

double entendre
 

dwuznaczność

hallmark
 

cecha charakterystyczna, znamię

patter
 

trajkotanie, gwara

erratic schedule
 

kręty program

culled
to cull

wybierać, selekcjonować

syndication
 

rozpowszechnianie, rozprowadzanie

politically correct
 

politycznie poprawny

relatively straight
 

stosunkowo prostolinijny, uczciwy.poważny

doggerel
 

marna poezja

violets
violet

fiołek

bluish
 

niebieskawy, sinawy

declining
to decline

pogarszać się

renal failure
 

niewydolność nerki

passed away
to pass away

odchodzić, umierać

coronary thrombosis
 

zakrzepica tętnicy wieńcowej

estate
 

spadek

amended
 

poprawiony, zmieniony