![]() He started out as an assistant stage manager and ended up in a touring review, cut short by his military draft. His comedy was shaped by the comedians of his youth, Jack Benny (his namesake), Charlie Chaplin, Charley Chase, Harold Lloyd and Laurel and Hardy. He had also a brother and a sister, and in his youth, worked at a Woolworths store, later taking jobs as a milkman, a bridge operator, a driver and a drummer. On his mother's side, Hill was related to pioneering dentists, who pulled teeth in a loft above a corn store. Benny's relatives also reputedly included uncles who were detectives that pursued Jack the Ripper. Both his father, Alfred, and grandfather, Henry, had both been circus clowns with his father, known as the "Captain," later running a drug store and surgical appliance store. He was born Alfred Hawthorne Hill on Januin Southampton on the south coast of England. Benny Hill was a British actor, comedian and entertainer, considered the "King of British Comedy" in the 70s and 80s.
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