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Harry Enfield
Horsham, Sussex, England, UK
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…
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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).
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2026
Welcome to Borovia
Movie President Stepanov
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2025
Jazz Emu: Ego Death
Movie Therapist
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2022
Andrew: The Musical
Movie Tony Blair
- 2022
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2022
The Contract
Movie Minister of State
- 2020
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2019
How Europe Stole My Mum
Movie
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2019
Capital
Movie Jeremy Couns
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2019
Island of Dreams
TV show Sir Richard Branson
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2016
Walliams & Friend
TV show Various
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2016
Swallows and Amazons
Movie Mr. Jackson
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2016
Upstart Crow
TV show John Shakespeare
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2016
The Windsors
TV show Prince Charles
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2016
Michael McIntyre's Big Show
TV show Self - Performer
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2016
Red Top
Movie Ross Kemp
- 2015
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2015
The Bad Education Movie
Movie Martin Wickers
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2015
Scottish Mussel
Movie Bill
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2014
Harry & Paul's Story of the 2s
Movie Simon Schama / Bob Ferris / Barry Cryer / Jacob Bronowski / Eric Idle / John Cheese-Shop-Sketch / Basil Fawlty / Cherri 'Terry' Jones / John Major / Margaret Thatcher / Lord Howe / Mel Smith / Rowan Atkinson / Jonathan Lloyd-Cambridge / Stephen Fry / Lord Melchett / Blackadder / Alan Bennett / Jim Broadbentovich / Vyvyan / Michael Gambon / David Brent / Tim Rice-But-Dim / Tim Nice-But-Brooke-Taylor / Arthur Pinta-Lager / Germaine Dreary / Mark Egghead / Lord Sugar / John Torode / Paul Hollywood / Ian Hislop / David Mitchell / Diddy Andy Parsons / Various
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2014
Duck Quacks Don't Echo
TV show
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2013
Crackanory
TV show Self
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2013
Psychobitches
TV show 'Mrs' Alfred Hitchcock
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2013
It's Kevin
TV show Grandad
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2012
blur: Parklive
Movie Self / The Tea Lady
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2012
30 Years of Comic Strip
Movie
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2012
Citizen Khan
TV show Andy
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2012
Bad Education
TV show Martin Wickers
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2012
Playhouse Presents
TV show 'Mrs' Alfred Hitchcock
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2012
Acts of Godfrey
Movie Malcolm
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2011
The Hunt for Tony Blair
Movie Alistair Campbell
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2011
The Itch of the Golden Nit
Movie Bill (voice)
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2011
Preferably Blue
Movie Easter Bunny
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2010
The One Ronnie
Movie
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2010
The Tunnel
Movie Self
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2010
Whatever Happened to Spitting Image?
Movie Self
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2007
Robbie the Reindeer in Close Encounters of the Herd Kind
Movie Old Jingle (voice)
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2007
Would I Lie to You?
TV show Self
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2007
Hitler: The Comedy Years
Movie Jürgen the German / George VI (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2007
The Graham Norton Show
TV show Self
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2007
Skins
TV show Jim Stonem
