Alfred Hawthorne Benny Hill (21 January 1924 – 20 April 1992)
was a English comedian and actor, notable for his long-running television program The Benny Hill Show. Charlie Chaplin, who died in 1977, was a fan of Hill's work: Hill had discovered that Chaplin, his childhood idol, was a fan when he was invited to Chaplin's home in Switzerland by Chaplin's family and discovered that Chaplin had a collection of Hill's work on video. Hill and Dennis Kirkland were the first outside the family to be invited into Chaplin's private study. Hill was awarded the Charlie Chaplin International Award for Comedy at the 1991 Festival of Comedy in Vevey, Switzerland.
Alfred Hawthorne
Benny Hill
01/21/1924 - 04-20-1992
Hill died at the age of 68.Neighbors called the police, who then found Hill, dead, sitting in his armchair in front of the television. Hill's cause of death was officially called coronary thrombosis. Hill was buried at Hollybrook Cemetery near his birthplace in Southampton. In October 1992, following rumours that he was buried with large amounts of gold jewellery, an attempt was made by thieves to exhume his body. However, when authorities looked into his open coffin the following morning, there was no treasure. Consequently, it is not generally known whether anything valuable was inside. Hill was reburied with a new coffin lid and a solid slab across the top of the grave.
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