Harry Hill

Harry Hill (born Matthew Keith Hall; 1 October 1964) is an English comedian, author and television presenter best known for narrating You've Been Framed! since 2004 and hosting Harry Hill's TV Burp for eleven years from 2001 to 2012.

A former physician, Hill began his career in comedy when he began hosting his popular radio show Harry Hill's Fruit Corner, but has worked on a number of projects including his 2013 film The Harry Hill Movie.

Personal life

Hill was born as Matthew Keith Hall in Woking, Surrey on 1 October 1964 and grew up in Staplehurst, Kent where he attended the local primary school. At the age of 14, his family moved to Hong Kong for two years where he attended Island School. He was later educated at Angley School and then Cranbrook School in Kent and St George's Hospital Medical School before training in neurosurgery at the University of London. Hill worked as a house officer at Doncaster Royal Infirmary, before quitting the medical profession because he "didn't feel in control of what was happening". Hill married artist Magda Archer in 1996 in Wandsworth, London. They have three daughters, all born in Kensington and Chelsea, London: Kitty, Winnie and Frederica. He now resides in the seaside town of Whitstable, Kent. In February 2006, Hill was a victim of identity theft; a sum of £280,000 was stolen from his bank account. In September 2008, Hill worked with Fairtrade to release Harry's Nuts, a brand of fairtrade peanuts. He is known to have been a supporter of his namesake football club Harrow Hill F.C., also known as Harry Hill F.C. In 2008, he was presented with a Harrow Hill badge, which he subsequently wore regularly on episodes of his television series Harry Hill's TV Burp. Hill was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Arts by the University of Kent on 17 July 2014, in recognition of his contribution to television and the arts.

Harry Hill (activist)

Harry Hill, also known by the name Mr. X., is a Native American activist. He is perhaps best known for participation in the Wounded Knee incident, for allegedly being the person behind the nebulous pseudonym involved with the murder of AIM activist Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash, Mr. X., and for bombing the Mount Rushmore Tourist Center.

Early life

David Harry Hill was born in 1941.

Personal life

Hill lived with one of the female activists, Thelma Rios-Conroy, during his early days with the American Indian Movement during 1974-1975.

Career

Although identified as a cop by ex-wife Thelma Rios-Conroy, the claim (with respect to Hill being an officer of the law) is disputed.

Activism

Hill has worked as an activist for the American Indian Movement since 1973.

Hill was identified by Rios-Conroy as having provoked the Custer Courthouse Incident riot that unfolded in 1973 following a one-day jail sentence of murderer Darld Schmitz, a White Air Force veteran in the murder of Wesley Bad Heart Bull. According to Rios-Conroy, "He started it all, Dave. He provoked the riot. He was right there. He told me so, proudly, several times. He instigated that courtroom riot too. I was there. I saw him start it, punching a cop. At the time everybody thought it was great. He was a warrior. He was a hero and everybody trusted him, including me."

The Harry Hill Movie

The Harry Hill Movie is a 2013 British musical comedy film directed by Steve Bendelack and starring Harry Hill. It was written by Hill along with Jon Foster and James Lamont. It revolves around a fictional version of Harry Hill's adventures with his diesel-drinking nan and misdiagnosed hamster. The film was released on 20 December 2013 in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Plot

The movie begins with an electric scooter chase between Harry and his nan because she didn't know it was him. Afterwards, Harry is sent to get a chicken for lunch, but they fire a machine gun at him and throw a grenade, which Harry throws into the chicken shed, blowing them up. They then discover that their beloved pet hamster Abu is ill so they take him to the vet. He is almost put down until Harry takes him back home. Ed the vet and his assistant, Kisko, are working for Harry's neo-Nazi twin brother Otto who was abandoned by his nan in the 1970s, claiming it was because she couldn't look after them both, and raised by dogs.

Harry Hill (TV series)

Harry Hill was a British stand-up comedy sketch show, starring comedian Harry Hill, that ran for four series from 1997 to 2003 on both Channel 4 and ITV.

Broadcast

Channel 4 (1997-2000)

The original Channel 4 series of Harry Hill was commissioned on the back of the success of Fruit Fancies, a series of six short comedy films written and performed by Hill, which were broadcast on BBC Two, and a sell-out theatre tour in 1996 which was given excellent reviews by critics and fans alike. The Channel 4 series was commissioned in January 1997. The programme's title, as shown in the title sequence, was simply "Harry Hill", but was often referred to (for example in some programme listings) as The Harry Hill Show.

As well as writing and producing the majority of the show's material himself, the Channel 4 version of the series also featured regular performances from Al Murray, who played Harry's older brother, Alan, Burt Kwouk, who appeared as himself, Steve Bowditch, who played Harry's chief scientist, Finnsbury Park, and Matt Bradstock, who played Harry's three-year-old adopted son, Alan Hill Jr. Each episode was introduced by Barrie Gosney.

Harry Hill (disambiguation)

Harry Hill (born Matthew Keith Hall, 1964) is an English comedian, author and television presenter

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Harry Hill (cyclist)

Harry Heaton Hill (8 May 1916 – 31 January 2009) was a British cyclist who competed in the Olympic games in 1936. He won the bronze medal in the 4000m team pursuit in Berlin with Ernest Mills, Ernest Johnson and Charles King.

Born in Padiham, Hill never met his father, who died during World War I in Africa, and he was raised by his mother in Sheffield. Too poor to get to London any other way, Hill cycled the 200 miles using the bike he planned to ride during the Olympic Games.

Upon returning to Britain after the Olympics, Hill bicycled 170 miles towards his hometown. Having bought an Olympic souvenir jacket, he had no money for food and, weak from hunger, hitched a ride for the last 30 miles. After winning the bronze medal, Hill became the first person to cycle 25 miles in an hour on an outdoor track, in Milan in 1937. He was to compete at 1939 world track championships but they were cancelled due to World War II. During the conflict, he built submarines in Barrow and, afterwards, ran a garage shop in Radcliffe, Greater Manchester. At 60, he cycled across North America.