Paul Whitehouse

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Paul Julian Whitehouse (born May 17, 1958 in Stanleytown, Rhondda Cynon Taf , Glamorgan , Wales ) is a British actor, writer and comedian of Welsh descent.

He was one of the creators of the BBC comedy series The Fast Show and starred alongside Harry Enfield on the Harry & Paul Show and on Harry Enfield's Television Program . The four-time BAFTA winner is one of the top fifty most popular comedians in the UK, according to a 2005 survey of colleagues and industry insiders.

Life

His father Harry Whitehouse worked for the National Coal Board (NCB) and his mother Anita worked as a nurse and later as a singer at the Welsh National Opera . At the age of four, the family moved from the former Rhondda Valley mining district in South Wales to Enfield , north London , where he later attended Chace Community School and discovered his talent for imitation :

“At school I didn't say a word for the first four weeks - I called it my 'Quiet Month'. I think the reason was that everyone spoke so differently from what they were in Wales before. Then, after four weeks, I came home one day and said in full mockney : 'Muumm, I wanna go to Sarfend!' (Mom, I want to go to Southend!) For her it was the end because I had lost my beloved Welsh dialect. So I became aware of the language and what effects it can have. ... "

From his divorce in 2000 with his ex-wife Fiona come the daughters Molly, Sophie and Lauren. Another child comes from a relationship with the costume designer Natalie Rogers in 1999. Since 2004 he has lived with the 22-year-old Turkish neuroscientist and author Mine Conkbayir, with whom he has a daughter, Delilah.

Career

Whitehouse role models were the British comedians Les Dennis, Dustin Gee and The Goodies. He was also influenced by Tommy Cooper , Morecambe and Wise and the British sitcom Dad’s Army .

In the fall of 1976, Whitehouse enrolled at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich and became friends with Charlie Higson . Instead of studying, the pair spent much of their time playing the sitar and formed the jazz fusion band Right Hand Lovers with friends Duncan Beamont, Kevin Buckland, and David Cummings . However, due to unsuccessful performance, his scholarship was not extended after the first year of study. He moved to Hackney in East London, where he occupied a vacant apartment and worked, among other things, as a plasterer .

After Higson graduated in 1980, he moved in with Whitehouse; while he made his living as an interior decorator during the day , he performed in the evenings and on the weekends with his new folk-punk group The Higsons . When they were both craftsmen working on a house that comedians Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie shared at the time, they were inspired by them and began writing comedy themselves .

In a neighborhood pub they met Harry Enfield, who had a stage show there, and became friends with him; when he later joined the cast of Saturday Live on Channel 4 , he gave them writing positions. Whitehouse invented Enfield's characters Stavros (a Greek food stall owner from London) and Loadsamoney (an archetypal boy from Essex in the 1980s under Thatcherism ); he later became Enfield's sidekick Lance on Saturday Live . According to Whitehouse, "he wouldn't do what he's doing today if he hadn't met Harry Enfield."

This was followed by appearances in shows such as Vic Reeves ' Big Night Out and in other BBC formats. He played a man with "the clinical need to get his bum petted" in A Bit of Fry & Laurie , had a role in Paul Merton : The Series, and developed numerous characters on Harry Enfield's television programs , including DJ Mike Smash of the fictional duo Smashie and Nicey , opposite Harry Enfield in the role of Dave Nice .

When Higson and Whitehouse were watching a preview video of highlights from Enfield's programming, they came up with the idea for the fast-paced sketch format The Fast Show , which was broadcast in the United States on BBC America under the title Brilliant . Whitehouse characters included Rowley Birkin QC , The 13th Duke of Wymbourne , Archie ("hardest game in the world"), Chris Jackson , Unlucky Alf , Arthur Atkinson , Brilliant Kid , Ron Manager , Ken (one of the "Suit You ”Schneider), Lindsey (one of the“ Rubbish Offroaders ”), Ted and Poutremos Poutra-Poutremos , presenter of the fictional foreign TV channel“ Chanel 9 ”. Johnny Depp , an avid fan of The Fast Show , described Whitehouse in an interview as "the greatest actor of all time" and used quotes from Whitehouse 'characters in his role as pirate Captain Jack Sparrow in the movie Pirates of the Caribbean . Depp made a cameo on the last episode of The Fast Show .

Together with David Cummings he developed the twelve episode sitcom Happiness for BBC Two , in which he played a voice actor in the midlife crisis . The first season aired in 2001 and the second in 2003.

In 2005, Whitehouse wrote and produced the comedy series Help for the BBC; in the series he played 25 patients of a therapist portrayed by Chris Langham . During Langham's trial for possession of child pornography , Whitehouse had to testify before Maidstone Crown Court on July 24, 2007 , as Langham had claimed the pictures and videos were only acquired in order to refer to a character for the then planned prepare for the second season of the series. Swedish television broadcasted under the name Hjälp! between 2007 and 2009 made her own version of the format, with Stina Ekblad in the role of psychologist.

Between 2006 and 2013 Charlie Higson and Whitehouse produced the comedy radio format Down the Line on BBC Radio 4 , which won the prestigious British Radio Academy Award (now: Audio and Radio Industry Awards) in 2007.

In the BBC sketch series Harry & Paul (also: Ruddy Hell! It's Harry and Paul ), which first aired on BBC One and later on BBC Two from 2007 to 2012 , he played again alongside Harry Enfield after they were already successful in the 1990s with Harry Enfield's television programs .

In 2009, Whitehouse starred alongside Eddie Large and Russ Abbot in episode 4 of the Horne & Corden series by Mathew Horne and James Corden , which first aired on March 31 of that year. On January 21, 2010, the first episode of the comedy series Bellamy's People (also: Bellamy's Kingdom ) was broadcast on BBC Two, based on the radio format Down the Line and played in the Whitehouse again on the side of Charlie Higson.

In 2011 he starred in the music video parody Newport (Ymerodraeth State of Mind) for Comic Relief , directed by MJ Delaney, among other Welsh celebrities ; it satirizes the song Empire State of Mind by musicians Jay-Z and Alicia Keys by replacing places and texts with Welsh equivalents. In the same year there was a new edition of The Fast Show as an online series on behalf of the beer brand Fosters, with a total of six episodes broadcast weekly from November 10, 2011.

In the February 2014 radio format Nurse , written by Whitehouse and musician and screenwriter David Cummings, Esther Coles played the title role and Whitehouse spoke several of his characters. In support of testicular cancer early detection, Harry Enfield and Whitehouse returned to the screen in October 2014 with their characters Frank and George for a sketch in the charity format The Feeling Nuts Comedy Night on Channel 4.

On March 10, 2015, the sitcom Nurse made its debut on BBC Two, which was based on the radio format of the same name from the previous year. At the side of Enfield, Whitehouse celebrated its 25th stage anniversary in August 2015, which was honored with the program An Evening With Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse on BBC Two.

In June and July 2018, Whitehouse appeared alongside longtime colleague and comedy partner Bob Mortimer in the six-part series Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing on BBC Two. The two friends, both of whom have heart problems, share their thoughts and experiences on the show as they fish in different locations across the UK. In 2001, Whitehouse said of the artist duo Reeves and Mortimer that they were "by far the best comedians we've had in our country for a long time."

Together with the son of the late 2011 and award-winning screenwriter John Sullivan, Jim, he wrote a musical adaptation of Only Fools and Horses , which was presented on February 9, 2019 at the Theater Royal Haymarket in London. Whitehouse himself plays the role of grandfather in it.

Nominations

Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award
  • 1995: Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award in the TV - Light Entertainment category together with Harry Enfield, Simon Greenall, Ian Hislop, Geoffrey Perkins, Nick Newman, Harry Thompson and Kay Stonham ( Harry Enfield and Chums )
  • 1997: Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award in the category TV - Light Entertainment with Harry Enfield, Dave Cummings, Ian Hislop, Gary Howe, Graham Linehan, Arthur Mathews, Nick Newman, Geoffrey Perkins and Richard Preddy ( Harry Enfield and Chums )
British Comedy Award
  • 1996: British Comedy Award for Top Male Comedy Performer ( The Fast Show )
  • 1999: Nomination in the category Best TV Comedy Actor ( Ted & Ralph )
  • 2009: British Comedy Award in the Best Sketch Show category together with Harry Enfield ( Harry & Paul )
  • 2010: Nomination in the category Best Sketch Show together with Harry Enfield ( Harry & Paul )
British Academy Television Award
  • 1997: Nomination in the category Best Light Entertainment (Program or Series) together with Charlie Higson, Sid Roberson and Mark Mylod ( The Fast Show )
  • 1998: BAFTA TV Award in the category Best Light Entertainment (Program or Series) together with Charlie Higson and Mark Mylod ( The Fast Show )
  • 1998: BAFTA TV Award in the category Best Light Entertainment Performance ( The Fast Show )
  • 2002: Nomination for the Situation Comedy Award with David Cummings, Declan Lowney and Rosemary McGowan ( Happiness )
  • 2006: BAFTA TV Award in the Best Comedy Program or Series category together with Jane Berthoud, Chris Langham and Declan Lowney ( Help )
  • 2011: BAFTA TV Award in the Best Comedy Program category together with Harry Enfield, Sandy Johnson and Izzy Mant ( Harry & Paul )
Banff World Media Festival Award
  • 2008: Nomination in the category Best Comedy Program together with Harry Enfield ( Harry & Paul )

Filmography

Movie

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  • 1990: A Bit of Fry & Laurie
  • 1990: Vic Reeves Big Night Out
  • 1990–1992: Harry Enfield's Television Program
  • 1991: Comic Relief (TV movie)
  • 1991: Paul Merton: The Series
  • 1992: Bunch of Five
  • 1993-1995: The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer
  • 1994: Smashie and Nicey, the End of an Era (TV movie)
  • 1994-1997: Harry Enfield and Chums
  • 1994-2000: The Fast Show
  • 1998: Ted & Ralph (TV movie)
  • 1999: You Ain't Seen All These, Right? (TV movie)
  • 1999: David Copperfield (TV movie)
  • 1999: Hooves of Fire (speaking role)
  • 2000: Randall & Hopkirk
  • 2001: Jumpers for Goalposts
  • 2001: Comic Relief: Say Pants to Poverty (TV movie)
  • 2001: We Know Where You Live (TV movie)
  • 2001–2002: Fun at the Funeral Parlor
  • 2001-2003: Happiness
  • 2002: I Love the 100 Best Top Ten Lists of the Fast Show Ever!
  • 2002: Legend of the Lost Tribe (speaking role)
  • 2004: The Ultimate Pop Star (TV movie)
  • 2004: Swiss Toni
  • 2005: Help
  • 2005: The Catherine Tate Show
  • 2007: Close Encounters of the Herd Kind (speaking role)
  • 2007–2012: Harry and Paul
  • 2009: Red Nose Day 2009 ( Dragons' Den single player)
  • 2009: Horne & Corden
  • 2010: Bellamy's People
  • 2014: The Life of Rock with Brian Pern
  • 2015: Nurse
  • 2018: Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing
  • 2019: The Tiger Who Came to Tea (TV movie)

literature

  • Paul Whitehouse: Marvelous, Isn't It? 1st edition. Headline Book Publishing, London 2002, ISBN 978-0-7553-1076-0 (English, 224 pages).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Comic Paul tells of talent change . In: Wales on Sunday. October 28, 2007
  2. ^ South East Wales Showbiz - Paul Whitehouse . BBC. April 27, 2009. Retrieved July 25, 2009.
  3. ↑ a b Fast Show star Whitehouse in doghouse as ex-wife's cat goes walkies (English) , Evening Standard . January 6, 2008. Retrieved April 16, 2019. 
  4. ↑ My team. Paul Whitehouse on Tottenham Hotspur , Guardian media. March 4, 2001. Retrieved March 2, 2010. 
  5. ↑ Rosanna Greenstreet: Paul Whitehouse: 'Sneezing is an affront to mankind' (en) , The Guardian . June 16, 2018. Retrieved April 22, 2019. 
  6. ↑ Sarah Oliver: The girl TV's Paul Whitehouse saved from her brutal drug dealer father reveals how their love led to a VERY unusual family life for The Fast Show star (en) . In: The Mail on Sunday , Daily Mail , March 19, 2017. Retrieved July 8, 2018. 
  7. ^ A b Comedy - Paul Whitehouse Profile . BBC. October 28, 2014. Retrieved August 27, 2015.
  8. ^ Charlie Higson: Charlie Higson: my days squatting with Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse .
  9. ^ A b On the move: Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson The Times - December 2, 2007
  10. ↑ Amanda Mitchison: That was a joke I made . In: The Daily Telegraph , September 27, 2002. 
  11. ↑ England | Kent | Co-star 'Did Not Know About Porn' , BBC News. July 24, 2007. Retrieved July 25, 2009. 
  12. ↑ Cole Moreton: Chris Langham interview: Disgraced actor opens up about his child sex abuse images conviction and why he's making a film in an orphanage (en) , The Independent . August 16, 2015. Retrieved April 22, 2019. 
  13. ↑ Maria Forsström: Stina säger "Hjälp" (s) , Metro . February 16, 2011. Retrieved April 22, 2019. 
  14. ^ Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson: Making (radio) waves . The Independent . October 1, 2007. Archived from the original on December 24, 2007. Retrieved on August 27, 2015.
  15. ^ Comedy - Harry and Paul - Homepage . BBC. Retrieved July 25, 2009.
  16. ↑ Mandeep Sanghera: Ray to star in Bellamy's People . In: BBC News , January 15, 2010. Retrieved May 22, 2010. 
  17. ↑ Comic Relief's Newport State Of Mind . March 21, 2011. Archived from the original on August 15, 2012.
  18. ^ Foster's Gold - The Fast Show - Vic & Bob - Mid Morning Matters and Good Call by Brad & Dan . November 5, 2011.
  19. ↑ Becky Freeth: Men Behaving Badly's Martin Clunes and Neil Morrissey reunite for Feeling Nuts | Daily Mail Online . Dailymail.co.uk. October 25, 2014. Retrieved August 27, 2015.
  20. ↑ Michael Hogan: Nurse, review: 'a beautiful bedside manner' . In: The Daily Telegraph , March 10, 2015. 
  21. ^ BBC Two - An Evening with Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse . In: BBC .
  22. ^ Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing . In: BBC .
  23. ↑ comedian Paul Whitehouse quizzed , BBC News. March 19, 2001. Retrieved August 27, 2015. 
  24. ^ A message from Jim Sullivan . 16th July 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Whitehouse, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Whitehouse, Paul Julian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British author, comedian and actor
DATE OF BIRTH 17th May 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Stanleytown , Rhondda Cynon Taf , Glamorgan , Wales