Harry Enfield

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Harry Enfield

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Birthday
May 30, 1961 (64 years old)

Harry Enfield

Known For

Prince Andrew: The Musical
0h 50m
Movie 2022

Prince Andrew: The Musical

A hilarious, all-singing, all-dancing reimagining of the Duke of York's...

The Love Box in Your Living Room
0h 59m
Movie 2022

The Love Box in Your Living Room

Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse tell the true story of...

The Contract
0h 30m
Movie 2022

The Contract

The Contract is a dark, farcical satire following a group...

The Fast Show: Just a Load of Blooming Catchphrases
1h 29m
Movie 2020

The Fast Show: Just a Load of Blooming Catchphrases

Bono estente! It's been over 25 years since quickfire sketch...

How Europe Stole My Mum
0h 47m
Movie 2019

How Europe Stole My Mum

Irreverent comedy documentary, presented by Kieran Hodgson, features Harry Enfield...

Capital
0h 16m
Movie 2019

Capital

Capital is a semi-improvised dark satire about the most important...

Island of Dreams
0h 30m
TV Show 2019

Island of Dreams

Necker Island has white sands, turquoise sea and girls in...

Swallows and Amazons
1h 37m
Movie 2016

Swallows and Amazons

Four children dream of escaping the tedium of a summer...

Upstart Crow
0h 30m
TV Show 2016

Upstart Crow

Comedy about the life and times of William Shakespeare as...

The Windsors
0h 30m
TV Show 2016

The Windsors

Comedy soap opera re-imagining the lives of the British Royal...

Biography

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).