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Re the recent edit summary ("notable work" is a POV description [these listings where probably cherry-picked based on someone's personal taste], and it's better to discuss works in article prose anyway instead of overstuffing the infobox)
by User:SNUGGUMS: I don't object to your edit, but a work is indubitably notable if it has an article on Wikipedia. I note all involved works have just that, blue links. Ergo characterizing them as "notable works" would be uncontroversially true. Merry Christmas, y'all. CapnZapp (talk) 16:35, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
See Benny Hill's Madcap Chase. 2A00:23C5:FE18:2700:91E9:78E9:DDF4:AE21 (talk) 12:45, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
I am removing the Chaplin reference, and that is for two reasons: First, because I had e-mail contact with the estate and they did not recognise this story at all. They went as far as to say that Chaplin PROBABLY knew Hill existed. Second, while the story (more or less) IS indeed mentioned in an episode of "living famously", like the footnote says, that doesn't mean that it's true. A friend and admirer of Hill gives some anecdotal evidence - quite possibly he's more interested in idolising his hero than strict regard for objective truth. Just because someone says something somewhere, doesn't mean it had to be accepted as fact. (In fact "celebrity fans" is in general very prone to unreliability; for example they say Elvis loved Monty Python and the holy grail but things should be proven first, not disproven.) Spiny Norman (talk) 20:27, 11 December 2022 (UTC)
The citation in the small section mentioning rumors of Mr. Hill’s sexuality is questionable, in part bc it doesn’t it’s any primary sources for this information, and additionally states bizarrely biased claims such as the reasons behind his Thames programme’s declining ratings:
“By the 1990s, the hugely popular Benny Hill Show was being politely censored by influence from a new, highly influential nemesis: the feminists. The "femi-nazis" and the newest fad of the time, "political correctness" had raised its horrible, intimidating head. Benny found his once-popular show being canceled in several countries. The hard-hearted feminists couldn't stand seeing Benny running around with beautiful, young girls in their meager attire.”
This is nothing but an (pointed) opinion citing no sources for numerous things, and thusly should not be considered as a source for any information in this Wikipedia entry. 2603:7080:A507:A9EF:95E2:ECAC:B6CB:46CC (talk) 18:45, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
I believe that Hill's role as the computer hacker "The Professor" in "The Italian Job" 1969 makes him the first actor to play a hacker in a movie. Any reliable sources for this, please? There were earlier computing plots in movies (e.g. "The Billion Dollar Brain" 1967) but not, AFAIK, actors specifically cast as technicians who deliberately subverted computers to their will. Andrew Oakley (talk) 15:03, 12 December 2023 (UTC)