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One of Benny's greatest talents was his ability to portray so many characters and create so many expressions. I'm sure you will recognize many of these famous faces he used over the years. This page has a lot of small images so it may take a moment to load. Place your mouse cursor over each image for a description. If you have a favorite Benny Hill character you'd like to see here, just contact me and I can add it. Enjoy!
Broadcast: January 27, 1971
The name was a play on that of Jimmy Savile, a veteran British radio DJ who was one of the hosts of the actual Top of the Pops.
Broadcast: January 27, 1971
An impersonation of the singer famous for "Ode to Billie Joe."
Broadcast: February 24, 1971
The name was a pun on British TV arts-show host and producer Humphrey Burton, whom Benny was impersonating here; Mr. Hill apparently liked the name so much, he would use it for other, unrelated characters over the next several years.
Broadcast: February 24, 1971
The real-life Sheridan Morley (1941-2007), son of actor Robert Morley, was a co-host of Late Night Line-Up at the time of this sketch, along with Joan Bakewell who was impersonated by Lesley Goldie as "Joanna Bakewell-Tart" in the St. John Bossom interview which followed. As impersonated by Benny here, he was interviewing "quick-change" artist "Speedy" Zapper (also Benny).
Broadcast: February 24, 1971
The interview from which this still was taken would be featured on record for years, under the name "Interview (Featuring Lesley Goldie)." He would play this East End poet only once more, on the November 24, 1971 show, in a segment apparently left over from taping of his March 24, 1971 special.
Broadcast: March 24, 1971
Benny as Ben Cartwright from Bonanza in "Benny's International Bloopers"
Broadcast: March 24, 1971
Benny as Hoss Cartwright from Bonanza in "Benny's International Bloopers"
Broadcast: November 24, 1971
Benny as Fanny Craddock in "Fun in the Kitchen with Johnny and Cranny Faddock"
Broadcast: December 22, 1971
Benny as Reginald Boozenquet in "News at Ten with Reginald Boozenquet"
Broadcast: December 22, 1971
Benny as Andrew Gardner in "News at Ten with Reginald Boozenquet"
Broadcast: February 23, 1972
Benny as Pierre de Tierre in "Pierre de Tierre: French Film Director"
Broadcast: February 23, 1972
Benny as Amos Thripp in "Percy Thrower Interviews Amos Thripp, Head Gardener"
Broadcast: February 23, 1972
Benny as Shirley Bassey in "Benny's All-Star Finale"
Broadcast: February 23, 1972
Just a few short months after this impersonation, the real-life O'Sullivan would ditch his attire as depicted by Hill here, adopt a "collegiate" look and score a worldwide hit with "Alone Again (Naturally)."
Broadcast: February 23, 1972
Benny as Dorothy Squires in "Benny's All-Star Finale"
Broadcast: February 23, 1972
The real-life David Kossoff was not only a well-established actor in England, but also the father of the late Paul Kossoff who was a guitarist with the band Free (of "All Right Now" fame).
Broadcast: February 23, 1972
Benny as Nana Mouskouri in "Benny's All-Star Finale," here performing the famous song about the girl who's going to see her lover by the eucalyptus tree.
Broadcast: October 25, 1972
Benny as Colonel Eatwell in "Meeting People With Hugh Paddick"
Broadcast: December 27, 1972
Benny as Stars on Sunday host Jess Yates in "Portable TV Set"
Broadcast: December 27, 1972
The real-life Clement Freud is the grandson of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud; he also served as an MP for the Liberal Party from 1972 to 1987, and was referred to in the November 24, 1971 "Fun in the Kitchen with Johnny and Cranny Faddock" sketch. Has done cooking shows, hence this bit.
Broadcast: December 27, 1972
Benny as Maggie Stredder of The Ladybirds in "Portable TV Set"
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