"Harry S. Cummings Harry Sythe Cummings (May 19, 1866 – September 7, 1917) was a lawyer, fraternal leader, and the first African American Councilman of Baltimore City. Born to Henry and Eliza Cummings in 1866, he was the second eldest of eight children. Due to the lack of educational opportunities in Baltimore, Cummings attended Lincoln University where he received his bachelor's degree . He later attended University of Maryland School of Law where he became one the first African Americans to graduate from the program in 1889. During his notable career, Harry Cummings founded the 1st Manuel Training School for"
"Harry Hill (TV series) Harry Hill, later titled The All-New Harry Hill Show and also referred to as The Harry Hill Show, 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. 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"
"a rendition of Jessie J's ""Price Tag"". The spoof documentary aired on 23 August 2012, alongside repeats of episodes from the first and third series of the show. Harry Hill (TV series) Harry Hill, later titled The All-New Harry Hill Show and also referred to as The Harry Hill Show, 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. The original Channel 4 series of ""Harry Hill"" was commissioned on the back of the success of ""Fruit Fancies"", a series of six short"
"Harry Hill Harry Hill (born Matthew Keith Hall; 1 October 1964) is an English comedian, author and television presenter. He has narrated ""You've Been Framed"" since 2004, and hosted ""Harry Hill's TV Burp"" for eleven years, from 2001 to 2012. A former physician, Hill won the Perrier Award for Best Newcomer at the 1992 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and began his career in radio and television comedy with the radio series ""Harry Hill's Fruit Corner"". His other projects include ""The Harry Hill Movie"", released in 2013. Hill was born as Matthew Keith Hall in Woking, Surrey on 1 October 1964 and"
"doing so, Hill joined the likes of Helena Bonham Carter and Martin Bashir in supporting the work of the charity, which funds research for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and fights for improved standards of care. Harry Hill Harry Hill (born Matthew Keith Hall; 1 October 1964) is an English comedian, author and television presenter. He has narrated ""You've Been Framed"" since 2004, and hosted ""Harry Hill's TV Burp"" for eleven years, from 2001 to 2012. A former physician, Hill won the Perrier Award for Best Newcomer at the 1992 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and began his career in radio and television comedy"
"Benny Hill Alfred Hawthorne ""Benny"" Hill (21 January 1924 – 20 April 1992) was an English comedian and actor, best remembered for his television programme ""The Benny Hill Show"", an amalgam of slapstick, burlesque, and ""double entendre"" in a format that included live comedy and filmed segments, with him at the focus of almost every segment. Hill was a prominent figure in British culture for nearly four decades. His show proved to be one of the great success stories of television comedy and was among the most-watched programmes in the UK; the audience peaked at more than 21 million in"
"activist Dennis Banks in the documentary ""A Good Day to Die"". Hill died on December 30, 2013, in Oneida, Wisconsin, after a long battle with lymphoma. Charlie Hill Charles Allan Hill (July 6, 1951 – December 30, 2013) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer of Oneida-Mohawk-Cree heritage. He wrote for the television series ""Roseanne"". Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1951, he moved as a child with his family when they returned to their homestead on the Oneida reservation in 1962. In 1969, he graduated from West De Pere High School and enrolled at University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he"
"Charlie Hill Charles Allan Hill (July 6, 1951 – December 30, 2013) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer of Oneida-Mohawk-Cree heritage. He wrote for the television series ""Roseanne"". Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1951, he moved as a child with his family when they returned to their homestead on the Oneida reservation in 1962. In 1969, he graduated from West De Pere High School and enrolled at University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he majored in speech and drama. He was involved in the Broom Street Theatre Group. During the early 1970s, he was a member of Hanay Geiogomah's Native"
"musical comedy in 1980, using as a basis material he had written for LBS revues and for the amusement of friends. He found a niche at the Cambridge Folk Festival, sometimes at marathon solo sessions lasting up to three hours. Hill guested regularly at folk circuit venues and also played alternative cabaret venues such as the Earth Exchange in the early 1980s. He was present at the outset of the Alternative Comedy movement of the 1980s, but not central to it. In 1994, he took a solo show to the Edinburgh Fringe for the first time. It was savaged by"
"from the early 1950s to early 1960s, Dave Freeman. Short, bald Jackie Wright was a frequent supporting player, who in many sketches had to put up with Hill slapping him on the top of his head. Hill remained mostly with the BBC through to 1968, except for a few sojourns with ITV station ATV between 1957 and 1960 and again in 1967. In 1969, his show moved from the BBC to Thames Television, where it remained until cancellation in 1989, with an erratic schedule of one-hour specials. The series showcased Hill's talents as an imaginative writer, comic performer, and impressionist."
"Harry Hill (sportsman) Harry Hill (1827 – August 27, 1896) was an English-born American businessman, sportsman and saloonkeeper whose establishments were regular meeting places for sportsmen, gamblers and politicians as well as members of the criminal underworld of New York City during the late 19th century. The most famous of these was his Bowery gambling resort located on West Houston Street east of Broadway and was long considered """"one of the sights of the metropolis"""" from the 1850s until its close in 1886. Harry Hill was born in Epsom, England around 1827. Spending his childhood at the local Epsom Downs"
"Murray Hill (performer) Murray Hill is a well-known New York City comedian and drag king entertainer. He is the entertainer persona of Busby Murray Gallagher, although this persona is maintained even in private settings. Murray Hill is the self-proclaimed ""hardest-working middle-aged man in show business."" In ""The Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures"", Judith Halberstam praised Hill for ""transforming masculinity and exposing its theatricality with profound results."" ""The New York Times"" called him ""the current reigning patriarch of the downtown performance community"" and the ""Seattle Weekly"" called him a ""pioneer"" of drag kings. Hill started performing in 1995,"
"a week, he died in Flushing on August 27, 1896. He appeared as a minor character in the 2004 historical novel ""A Passionate Girl"" by Thomas J. Fleming. Harry Hill (sportsman) Harry Hill (1827 – August 27, 1896) was an English-born American businessman, sportsman and saloonkeeper whose establishments were regular meeting places for sportsmen, gamblers and politicians as well as members of the criminal underworld of New York City during the late 19th century. The most famous of these was his Bowery gambling resort located on West Houston Street east of Broadway and was long considered """"one of the sights"
"will make You Laugh out Loud"" (1888). He died in Bournemouth in December 1905, leaving £55,905 8s 2d in his will. Henry Howard Paul George Henry Howard Paul (18 November 1830 – 9 December 1905) (known on stage as Howard Paul) was an American writer, playwright, comic actor and theatrical manager who made his name and spent most of his career in the United Kingdom. In 1854 he married the British singer and actress Isabella Hill, and the two appeared together in Britain and the United States as Mr and Mrs Howard Paul for more than two decades, in comic"
"Harry Hill's Real Life Adventures in TV Land Harry Hill's Real Life Adventures in TV Land was a British celebrity comics comic strip, published in ""The Dandy"" between 2010 and 2011, featuring a cartoon-version of comedian Harry Hill, his sidekick, Knitted Character, and often spoofed television celebrities. Initially, it was planned for Harry Hill to feature in the comic's incarnation at that time, ""Dandy Xtreme"", starting in June 2010. However, the strip's debut was delayed after a decision was made to revamp ""The Dandy"", reverting it to a more traditional weekly comic format. The strip eventually began in issue #3508"
"circumstances beyond his control. It made its last appearance in the 2011 Christmas edition of the ""Dandy"". Harry Hill's Real Life Adventures in TV Land Harry Hill's Real Life Adventures in TV Land was a British celebrity comics comic strip, published in ""The Dandy"" between 2010 and 2011, featuring a cartoon-version of comedian Harry Hill, his sidekick, Knitted Character, and often spoofed television celebrities. Initially, it was planned for Harry Hill to feature in the comic's incarnation at that time, ""Dandy Xtreme"", starting in June 2010. However, the strip's debut was delayed after a decision was made to revamp ""The"
"Barry Hill (British writer) Barry Hill (born 1937), British television scriptwriter and dramatist, best known for his long association with the top rated ITV1 soap opera, ""Coronation Street"", penning some 300 scripts from the 1970s to the 1990s. Hill is also known as a speaker, author, journalist and publisher. His books include ""The Bits Between the Adverts"" (a humorous trip through weekly newspaper life in the 60s); ""So You Want to be a Writer"" (a practical guide for anyone who aspires to write for television, radio or the press, for profit or pleasure); ""Congratulations - You're a Senior Citizen"" (a"
"1858. His parents, Gustave Metz and Martha E. Baecht Metz, were German immigrants. Gus was the oldest of three surviving boys. His father was the owner of a sawmill and furniture factory. Gus Hill was an amateur athlete. He became a wrestler and then a juggler with Indian clubs. He took the name ""Hill"" from a sporting resort at Broadway and Crosby Street in Manhattan called Harry Hill's. On 16 June 1876, when Hill was eighteen, he was listed as a club swinger on a bill for a vaudeville show at Tony Pastor's theater in New York. The show featured"
"trying out a character deemed not to have worked, at the opening show Murray suggested saying that the compere had not made it to the show and that the barman in the venue, the Pleasance Cabaret Bar, had offered to fill in. At the Edinburgh Festival, Murray came up with ""The Pub Landlord"". Murray made his first television appearances on ""Harry Hill"" in 1997 playing Harry's big brother Alan (""If it's too hard, I can't understand it!""), and subsequently featured in a short film, ""Pub Fiction."" He made a brief appearance as the Pub Landlord in Series 2, Episode 6"
"acts in British comedy. In 2005, in a poll to find ""The Comedian's Comedian"", he was voted amongst the Top 50 comedy acts ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders. In 2007, Hill was voted #5 on Channel 4's hundred greatest stand ups. On 13 December 2006, Hill won two Highland Spring British Comedy Awards, over the favourites Ant and Dec, which Hill made light of in his acceptance speeches. In 2008, he won two BAFTAs, and another in 2009 for Best Entertainment Performance. In 2009, he won two British Comedy Awards, making it his sixth award. He also won"
"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. The movie begins with a 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"
"as that in musical comedy grew. He began writing popular songs, using the stage name Noel Gay. According to Morley the name was derived ""from a sign he read on a London bus in 1924: 'NOEL Coward and Maisie GAY in a new revue'."" His pseudonym of Stanley Hill was used from time to time for his more sentimental work. After contributing to revues such as ""Stop Press"" he was commissioned to write the entire score and lyrics for André Charlot's 1926 revue. His next show was ""Clowns in Clover"", which starred Cicely Courtneidge and Jack Hulbert, a husband-and-wife team"
"Craig Hill (comedian) Craig Hill is a Scottish comedian, TV presenter and actor known for his cheeky, irreverent and camp act. Hill's first public success came at age ten when he won a local talent contest in his native East Kilbride, impersonating Cleo Laine. In 1991, he moved to Edinburgh in order to study Drama at Queen Margaret University College, graduating in 1994. Hill's comedy characters as well as his ability to improvise and write material led him into stand-up. He was still an actor, working in Theatre in Education and pantomimes when a friend secretly booked him in for"
"The Benny Hill Show The Benny Hill Show is a British comedy television show starring Benny Hill that aired in various forms between 15 January 1955 and 16 May 1991 in over 140 countries. The show consisted mainly of sketches that were full of slapstick, mime, parody and double entendre. Thames Television cancelled production of the show in 1989 because of declining ratings and large production costs at £450,000 () per show. ""The Benny Hill Show"" features Benny Hill in various short comedy sketches and occasional, extravagant musical performances by artists of the time. Hill appears in many different costumes"
"a job as a security officer for the American Officers' Club in Regent's Park, London. One of his tasks was to book entertainment acts and when he struck up a friendship with Benny Hill, the pair started writing together. Freeman co-wrote with Benny Hill from 1955 to 1968 for ""The Benny Hill Show"" on BBC. The early series were notable for spoofs of popular television personalities of the time, such as the quiz and talent-show host Hughie Green, the globe-trotting journalist Alan Whicker, and the undersea explorers Hans and Lotte Hass. Freeman was teamed with Hill from the second series,"
"discover whether his comedy was valid to a generation that enjoyed the likes of ""Little Britain"", ""The Catherine Tate Show"", and ""Borat"". The participants were asked to watch a 30-minute compilation that included examples of Hill's humour from both his BBC and ITV shows. The responses and results demonstrated that none of the sample of viewers took offence at any of the sketches shown. His silent ""Wishing Well"" sketch was discovered to be the most popular. Notes Bibliography Benny Hill Alfred Hawthorne ""Benny"" Hill (21 January 1924 – 20 April 1992) was an English comedian and actor, best remembered for"
"British comedy favourites. Those taking part in the first fundraising concert included Neville Staple, Right Said Fred, and Rick Wakeman. In a June 2011 interview with ""The Observer"", the American rapper Snoop Dogg declared himself to be a fan of Hill. Hill never owned his own home in London, and instead preferred to rent a flat rather than buy one. He rented a double-room apartment in the London district Queen's Gate for 26 years until around 1986 when he moved to Fairwater House in Teddington. While looking for somewhere to live, he stayed at 22 Westrow Gardens in Southampton. He"
"Harry Nicholls (comedian) Henry Thomas ""Harry"" Nicholls (1 March 1852 – 29 November 1926) was an English actor, comedian, songwriter and playwright, popular during the Victorian era. As an actor, he appeared in music hall, Victorian burlesques and Edwardian musical comedy. He was perhaps best known for starring in the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane's annual Christmas pantomimes, alongside Dan Leno and Herbert Campbell and as the author of long-running musicals at the Gaiety Theatre. Nicholls was born in London and was educated at The City of London School. As a youth he worked as a clerk in a railway office"
"also wrote). In 1988, ITV gave Hill his own midday entertainment show ‘Gas Street’ in which he made his début as a TV presenter and interviewer - the show also co-starred Suzi Quatro. In 1990, Hill took the stage to play Ivor Novello in the stage play, ""My Dearest Ivor"". Hill also wrote the stage musical, "" Zodiac"". Hill’s stage acting continued thereafter and notably included a starring role as the cowardly lion in an adaptation of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of ‘The Wizard Of Oz’. In 2004, Hill was diagnosed with prostate cancer and underwent successful keyhole surgery."
"an ‘open spot’ in 1998. In 1997 and 1998, Hill performed a lead role (Jeremy Weller) in the Grassmarket Project’s theatre production ""Mad"" at the Edinburgh Fringe. Since 2002, Hill has extensively toured with his solo comedy shows throughout Scotland, Ireland and the UK. His international work includes Montreal’s Just For Laughs Festival 2008 where he hosted the prestigious Britcom series as well as Bubbling With Laughter and shows in Toronto, Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, Sydney, New York, Singapore, Amsterdam, Brussels, Ghent, Athens, Stockholm and Berlin. He previously hosted Edinburgh's Hogmanay coverage for the BBC and from 2011"
"directing Eddie Murphy in ""48 Hrs."" saw him receive an offer to work with Richard Pryor in a new version of ""Brewster's Millions"" (1985). This was Hill's first—and, as of 2016, only—full-fledged comedy. He says he purposefully made the film ""to improve his bank account and success quotient"", and admitted it was ""an aberration in the career line"". He added that ""whatever [the film's] deficiencies, I think the wistful quality was there. I was happy about that. The picture did well and made money."" After making ""Brewster's Millions"" Hill said he had another comedy in development at Universal. He also"
"obituarist from the ""Hull Daily Mail"" opined that he was ""one of the greatest music hall and pantomime comedians of his time."" Harry Randall (actor) Harry Randall (born Thomas William Randall) (22 March 1857 – 18 May 1932) was an English comic actor in music halls and pantomime. After performing as an amateur from age 11, he made his first professional music hall appearance in 1883, quickly gaining notice. By the 1890s, he was a popular pantomime dame. With Dan Leno, Herbert Campbell and Fred Williams, he formed a theatre management company, operating and building several theatres, including the Grand"
"shown on Harry Hill's TV Burp, a British television comedy programme on ITV hosted by comedian Harry Hill. King has readily admitted that when he creates a new production, it is not necessarily his love of the particular music that drives him but whether the show idea can be financially viable. In April 2011, King offered Jackson fan Mohamed Al-Fayed a role in the musical. The offer followed Fayed's unveiling of a statue of the singer at the Fulham Football Club ground which he owns in south London. King's ""Spirit of Christmas"" show was declared an unexpected box-office hit in"