Harry Enfield

Acting • Born 1961-05-30

Acting1Horsham, Sussex, England, UK

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).

Filmography

103 credits

Kevin & Perry Go Large

Movie • 2000

Kevin

Churchill: The Hollywood Years

Movie • 2004

King George VI

Tooth

Movie • 2004

Plug

Hitler: The Comedy Years

Movie • 2007

Jürgen the German / George VI (archive footage) (uncredited)

The One Ronnie

Movie • 2010

When Comedy Changed Forever

Movie • 2006

Self (archive material)

Bob's Birthday

Movie • 1994

Smashie and Nicey's Top of the Pops Party

Movie • 1994

Nicey

Pickles: The Dog Who Won the World Cup

Movie • 2006

Pickles (voice)

Norbert Smith: A Life

Movie • 1989

Sir Norbert Smith

Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe

Movie • 2002

Old Jingle (voice)

The Itch of the Golden Nit

Movie • 2011

Bill (voice)

Preferably Blue

Movie • 2011

Easter Bunny

Roger Mellie: The Man on the Telly

Movie • 1991

Tom

Harry Enfield: Live In Concert

Movie • 1997

Filth!

Movie • 1994

Mr. Cholmondley-Warner

30 Years of Comic Strip

Movie • 2012

The Love Box in Your Living Room

Movie • 2022

Scottish Mussel

Movie • 2015

Bill

Top Gear: Back in the Fast Lane

Movie • 2003

Self

Andrew: The Musical

Movie • 2022

Tony Blair

The Bad Education Movie

Movie • 2015

Martin Wickers

Harry Enfield's Brand Spanking New Video

Movie • 2002

Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire

Movie • 1999

Old Jingle (voice)

Spike Milligan I told you I was ill... A live tribute

Movie • 2002

Self

Red Top

Movie • 2016

Ross Kemp

The Hunt for Tony Blair

Movie • 2011

Alistair Campbell

Harry Enfield Undressed

Movie • 1999

Swallows and Amazons

Movie • 2016

Mr. Jackson

Harry Enfield Presents Kevin's Guide to Being a Teenager

Movie • 1999

Kevin

Blackadder: The Cavalier Years

Movie • 1988

Narrator (voice)

The Tunnel

Movie • 2010

Self

Robbie the Reindeer in Close Encounters of the Herd Kind

Movie • 2007

Old Jingle (voice)

An Evening with Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse

Movie • 2015

Stella Street

Movie • 2004

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Acts of Godfrey

Movie • 2012

Malcolm

Smashie and Nicey: The End of an Era

Movie • 1994

Dave Nice

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades

Movie • 2000

Julio the Chauffeur

Billy the Fish

Movie • 1990

All voices

Suit You Sir! The Inside Leg Of The Fast Show

Movie • 1999

Self

Viz: The Documentary

Movie • 1990

Self

Harry & Paul's Story of the 2s

Movie • 2014

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