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Harry Enfield

Harry Enfield

Actor · b. 1961 · Horsham, Sussex, England, UK

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).

Series24

  • TV7.2

    The Graham Norton Show

    2007 · 290 votes

  • TV4.4

    The One Show

    2006 · 31 votes

  • TV7.6

    Top Gear

    2002 · 912 votes

  • TV7.1

    Have I Got News for You

    1990 · 82 votes

  • TV5.3

    Wogan

    1982 · 7 votes

  • TV8.1

    Skins

    2007 · 1.4K votes

  • TV7.8

    Would I Lie to You?

    2007 · 133 votes

  • TV5.9

    Question Time

    1979 · 15 votes

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  • TV5.0

    RI:SE

    2002 · 2 votes

  • TV6.5
  • TV8.0

    Going Live!

    1987 · 2 votes

  • TV6.0

    Playhouse Presents

    2012 · 1 votes

  • TV7.1

    TFI Friday

    1996 · 10 votes

  • TV6.9

    Bad Education

    2012 · 116 votes

  • TV7.5

    Rove

    1999 · 2 votes

  • TV7.1
  • TV7.4

    French & Saunders

    1987 · 40 votes

  • TV7.2

    Spitting Image

    1984 · 29 votes

  • TV6.0

    Duck Quacks Don't Echo

    2014 · 10 votes

  • TV7.0

    Saturday Live

    1986 · 4 votes

  • TV7.3

    Upstart Crow

    2016 · 55 votes

  • TV7.2

    Harry Enfield and Chums

    1994 · 30 votes

  • TV6.8

    Psychobitches

    2013 · 12 votes

Movies19

  • Movie5.0

    Kevin & Perry Go Large

    2000 · 164 votes

  • Movie6.1
  • Movie5.0
  • Movie5.7

    The Bad Education Movie

    2015 · 150 votes

  • Movie4.1

    Tooth

    2004 · 16 votes

  • Movie5.3
  • Movie6.3

    Swallows and Amazons

    2016 · 100 votes

  • Movie6.5
  • Movie7.2
  • Movie5.5
  • Movie5.0

    What Rats Won't Do

    1998 · 18 votes

  • Movie5.3

    Red Top

    2016 · 3 votes

  • Movie6.5
  • Movie5.1
  • Movie5.4
  • Movie6.5

    Stella Street

    2004 · 6 votes

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