Harry Enfield

Acting

Born May 30, 1961 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 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).

TV Shows(48)

Island of Dreams

Sir Richard Branson

2019

Walliams & Friend

Various

2016

Upstart Crow

John Shakespeare

2016

The Windsors

Prince Charles

2016

Michael McIntyre's Big Show

Self - Performer

2016

Duck Quacks Don't Echo

2014

Crackanory

Self

2013

Psychobitches

'Mrs' Alfred Hitchcock

2013

It's Kevin

Grandad

2013

Citizen Khan

Andy

2012

Bad Education

Martin Wickers

2012

Playhouse Presents

'Mrs' Alfred Hitchcock

2012

Would I Lie to You?

Self

2007

The Graham Norton Show

Self

2007

Skins

Jim Stonem

2007

The One Show

Self - Guest

2006

Harry & Paul

2005

Monkey Trousers

2005

The Friday Night Project

Self

2005

Top Gear

Self

2002

Look Around You

The Ghost of Tchaikovsky

2002

Celeb

2002

RI:SE

2002

Harry Enfield's Brand Spanking New Show

Cornish Ladies Man, Hitler, David Beckham, Strange Bob, The Pharmacist, Small Bloke, Captain Nemo

2000

FBI Music Magazine

2000

The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything

2000

Harry Enfield Presents

Multi Characters

1999

Rove

Self

1999

Parkinson

Self

1998

Harry Enfield and Chums

Various Characters

1994

Terry Wogan's Friday Night

Self

1992

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

Chauffeur

1992

Men Behaving Badly

Dermot Povey

1992

Roger Mellie: The Man On The Telly

All characters except Roger.

1991

Gone to the Dogs

Little Jim Morley

1991

Harry Enfield's Television Programme

1990

Have I Got News for You

Self

1990

Friday Night Live

1988

Going Live!

Self

1987

French & Saunders

1987

Filthy Rich & Catflap

Julian

1987

Saturday Live

1986

Girls On Top

Dr. Banks

1985

Spitting Image

1984

Wogan

Self

1982

Question Time

Self - Panellist

1979

Norbert Smith – a Life

Classic British Aircraft

Movies(57)

Jazz Emu: Ego Death

Therapist

2025

Andrew: The Musical

Tony Blair

2022

The Love Box in Your Living Room

2022

The Contract

Minister of State

2022

The Fast Show: Just a Load of Blooming Catchphrases

Self

2020

How Europe Stole My Mum

2019

Capital

Jeremy Couns

2019

Swallows and Amazons

Mr. Jackson

2016

Red Top

Ross Kemp

2016

An Evening with Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse

2015

The Bad Education Movie

Martin Wickers

2015

Scottish Mussel

Bill

2015

Harry & Paul's Story of the 2s

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

2014