Paul Whitehouse

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Paul Whitehouse
Born
Paul Julian Whitehouse

(1958-05-20) 20 May 1958 (age 65)
Alma mater University of East Anglia
Occupations
  • Actor
  • comedian
  • screenwriter
  • television producer
  • presenter
Years active1987–present
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Paul Julian Whitehouse [1] (born 20 May 1958) is a British actor, writer, presenter and comedian. He was one of the main stars of the BBC sketch comedy series The Fast Show , and has starred with Harry Enfield in the shows Harry & Paul and Harry Enfield & Chums . He has appeared with Bob Mortimer in the BBC series Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing , and has also acted in films including Corpse Bride (2005), Alice in Wonderland (2010), and The Death of Stalin (2017).

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In a 2005 poll to find The Comedian's Comedian, he was in the top 50 comedy acts voted for by comedians and comedy insiders.

Early life

Whitehouse was born on 20 May 1958, in Stanleytown, Glamorgan, Wales. [2] His father, Harry, worked for the National Coal Board and his mother, Anita ( née Jones), was a singer with the Welsh National Opera. [3] [lower-alpha 1] The family moved to Enfield, Middlesex, when he was four years old, [5] which led to his discovering his talent for mimicry: [2]

At school I didn't say a word for the first four weeks – I called it my Silent Month. I think it was because everyone was speaking so differently from how it had been in Wales. Then, after four weeks, I came home one day and said, 'Muumm, I wanna go to Sarfend!' For her that was the end because I had lost my lovely Welsh lilt. So I became very conscious of speech and the effects it can have. But when I went back to Wales I would start talking all Welsh, 'like that, you see' before going all Alf Garnett while coming back the other way.

Career

Whitehouse attended the University of East Anglia reading for a degree in Development Studies from autumn 1976, where he made friends with Charlie Higson. [6] The pair spent little of their first year studying, instead playing guitar and performing with their punk rock combo, the Right Hand Lovers. [7] Whitehouse dropped out and squatted in a council flat in Hackney, east London and occasionally worked as a plasterer. [8] After Higson graduated in 1980, he moved in with Whitehouse, working by day as a decorator and performing at night and the weekends with his new punk-funk group The Higsons. [9]

The pair began working as tradesmen on a house shared by comedians Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, which inspired them to start writing comedy. They moved to an estate where in a pub they met Harry Enfield, a neighbour with a stage act, [9] and after he gained a place on Channel 4's Saturday Live , the pair were invited to write for him. [6] Whitehouse created Enfield's character Stavros (a London-based Greek kebab shop owner), and then Loadsamoney (an archetypal Essex boy made good in Margaret Thatcher's 1980s); he also appeared as Enfield's sidekick Lance on Saturday Live. This success turned Whitehouse and Higson's career, and they began to appear on Vic Reeves Big Night Out and extensively for the BBC, with Whitehouse appearing on A Bit of Fry and Laurie as a man with a clinical need to have his bottom fondled, and Paul Merton: The Series , then on Harry Enfield's Television Programme , where he developed numerous characters including DJ Mike Smash of Smashie and Nicey, alongside Enfield as Dave Nice.

TV career

While watching a preview tape of highlights from Enfield's programme, Whitehouse and Higson were inspired to create a rapid-fire delivery comedy series which would evolve into The Fast Show (when shown in the United States on BBC America, the show was titled Brilliant). Whitehouse's characters included Rowley Birkin QC, Unlucky Alf, Arthur Atkinson, Ron Manager and Ted.

An online series of The Fast Show commissioned by Fosters led to six weekly episodes launched on 10 November 2011. [10]

In 2001 and 2002, Whitehouse and Fast Show collaborator Dave Cummings co-wrote two series of the BBC comedy drama Happiness; Whitehouse also performed the lead role as a voice-over actor with a mid-life crisis. [11]

Whitehouse wrote, produced and appeared with Chris Langham in the 2005 comedy drama Help , also for the BBC. In this series he took 25 roles, all patients of Langham's psychotherapist (except one, who is Langham's psychotherapist's psychotherapist). The pair's collaboration resulted in Whitehouse taking the witness stand on 24 July 2007 in the trial of Langham, in regard to the charge of holding explicit images and videos of minors. Langham claimed he downloaded this material as research for a character in the second series of Help, but Whitehouse's testimony only partially corroborated this explanation. [12]

He appeared in the BBC sketch series Harry & Paul (formerly Ruddy Hell! It's Harry and Paul), starring alongside Harry Enfield. [13] Whitehouse starred alongside Charlie Higson in the BBC2 comedy series Bellamy's People , with the first episode broadcast on 21 January 2010. The comedy evolved from the BBC Radio 4 program Down the Line . [14] The show originally had the working title of Bellamy's Kingdom.

In October 2014, Harry Enfield and Whitehouse revived the classic characters Frank and George ("The Self-Righteous Brothers") from Harry Enfield and Chums, in a sketch for Channel 4's testicular cancer awareness comedy series The Feeling Nuts Comedy Night . [15]

In 2015 his sitcom Nurse , based on his Radio 4 series of the same name (see below), debuted on BBC2 on 10 March. [16]

In August 2015, Whitehouse, alongside Enfield, in celebration of their 25-year partnership, presented An Evening With Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse. [17]

In June and July 2018, Whitehouse appeared with his long-time friend and fellow comedian Bob Mortimer in a BBC2 six-part series, Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing . The two friends, who both suffer from heart conditions, share their thoughts and experiences while fishing at a variety of locations around the UK, often with anecdotes about Paul's health and Bob's misadventures. The fourth series of Gone Fishing began broadcasting in 2021. [18] The fifth series began in September 2022, and returned for a Christmas special in December 2022. [19] The duo returned for a sixth series broadcast on BBC.

Radio

Whitehouse and Charlie Higson produced and appeared in a spoof phone-in show Down the Line on BBC Radio 4. The first series was broadcast May–June 2006. A second series was broadcast 16 January – 20 February 2007, during which they won a Sony Radio Academy Award. [20] A third series was broadcast in January 2008, a fourth in January 2011 and a fifth in May 2013. In February 2014, Radio 4 broadcast Nurse, written by Whitehouse and David Cummings and starring Esther Coles in the title role, with Whitehouse playing a variety of characters, including Graham Downs who had previously appeared in Down the Line. The show would become the basis for the 2015 BBC Two TV series Nurse . [21]

Theatre

Whitehouse and John Sullivan's son, Jim Sullivan, have written Only Fools and Horses The Musical , which launched on 9 February 2019 at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London. [22] Whitehouse stars as Grandad. In October 2022 he temporarily handed the part over to Les Dennis. [23]

Other work

He also starred alongside Eddie Large and Russ Abbot in episode 4 of Horne & Corden . Comic Relief 2011 contained a new parody video of "Newport (Ymerodraeth State of Mind)" directed by MJ Delaney featuring Whitehouse and other Welsh celebrities lip-syncing to the song. [24] It is available to download via iTunes.

Johnny Depp described Whitehouse as "the greatest actor of all time". [25] Depp appeared in the 2000 finale of The Fast Show , and he and Whitehouse have appeared in five films together: Finding Neverland , Corpse Bride , Alice in Wonderland and its sequel Alice Through the Looking Glass , and Mortdecai . The latter has been noted for alluding to Fast Show characters. [26] [27]

Influences

Whitehouse's main early influences were the sketches of Les Dennis and Dustin Gee and The Goodies. In 2001, when asked about comedians who had influenced him, Whitehouse said that Monty Python, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were the main influences from when he was young. He also cited his modern influences as Harry Enfield, of whom he said without meeting he would not have been doing what he does now, and the approach of Reeves and Mortimer who he described as "far and away the best comedians that we have had in this country for a long while." [28]

Personal life

Whitehouse met his wife Fiona Wightman at a very young age and they married in 1992 and had two daughters, Molly and Sophie, before he moved out of the family home in 2000. [11] The couple divorced three years later. Whitehouse has supported his ex-wife in a civil action she has pursued against a national newspaper, for accessing her medical records, the publisher offered unreserved apologies. [29]

Whitehouse went on to have a third daughter, Lauren, with a work colleague, costume designer Natalie Rogers. [29]

He met Dr Mine Conkbayir who is of Turkish heritage when she was aged 23 and 22 years his junior. She was combining working in a health food shop while she studied. The couple have one daughter, Delilah, and, as of 2023, have been together 20 years, and married for five but maintain separate homes. [30] [31] [32] [33]

Whitehouse is a fan of Premier League football side Tottenham Hotspur. [5]

Filmography

Film

YearFilmRoleNotes
2000 Kevin & Perry Go Large Bouncer
2004 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Sir Cadogan Deleted scenes
Finding Neverland Stage Manager
2005 Corpse Bride William Van Dort, Mayhew, Paul the Head WaiterVoice only
2009 Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva OtisEnglish version
2010 Alice in Wonderland Thackery Earwicket the March Hare Voice only
Burke & Hare Drunk Gentleman
2015 Mortdecai Spinoza
2016 Alice Through the Looking Glass Thackery Earwicket the March HareVoice only
2017 The Death of Stalin Anastas Mikoyan
Ghost Stories Tony Matthews
2018 Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires Barney, GussmanVoice only
King of Thieves Carl Wood
2019 The Personal History of David Copperfield Mr. Peggotty

Television

YearTelevisionRoleNotes
1990 A Bit of Fry and Laurie Man at the Bottom Fondled in AudienceEpisode: "Episode #2.3"
Vic Reeves Big Night Out David Rowells
Jean-Paul Gaultier
Mr. Popkins
Episodes: "Episode #1.1"
"Episode #1.5"
"Episode #1.6"
1991 Comic Relief Mike "Smashie" SmashTV film
Paul Merton: The Series CarverEpisode: "Episode #1.6"
1990–1992 Harry Enfield's Television Programme Fred Git
Lance
Mike "Smashie" Smash
Vincent
Also screenwriter
1994–2000 The Fast Show "Unlucky" Alf
Archie
Arthur Atkinson
Brilliant Kid
Poutremos Poutra-Poutremos
Chris the Crafty Cockney
The 13th Duke of Wymbourne
Lindsey
Ron Manager
Rowley Birkin QC
Ted
Various roles
Also co-creator and screenwriter
1992Bunch of FiveSpencer PendelEpisode: "The Weekenders"
1993–1995 The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer Jimmy Lea from Slade
Heinrich Himmler
1994 Smashie and Nicey, the End of an Era Mike "Smashie" SmashTV film
1994–1997 Harry Enfield & Chums Mister Dead
George Doberman
Julio Geordio
Fred Git
Lance
Michael Paine
Also screenwriter
1998 Ted & Ralph Ted
Rowley Birkin
Kevin Brown
TV film
1999 You Ain't Seen All These, Right? Various roles
David Copperfield Pawnbroker
Hooves of Fire Prancer (voice)
2000 Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) Sidney CrabbeEpisode: "A Blast from the Past"
2001–2002 Fun at the Funeral Parlour Harrison Ford The News AgentEpisodes: "Death in the Valleys"
"The Heron Incident"
"Dead Aid"
2001 Jumpers for Goalposts Ron Manager
Comic Relief: Say Pants to PovertyTedTV film
We Know Where You LiveMike "Smashie" Smash
George
2001–2003 Happiness Danny SpencerAlso screenwriter
2002 I Love the 100 Best Top Ten Lists of the Fast Show Ever! Various characters
Legend of the Lost TribePrancer (voice)
2004The Ultimate Pop StarMike "Smashie" SmashTV film
Swiss Toni Brickabrack LennardEpisode: "Fothergill 2000"
2005 Help Various characters
The Catherine Tate Show DadEpisode: "Episode #2.5"
2007Close Encounters of the Herd KindPrancer (voice)
2007–2012 Harry & Paul Various charactersAlso co-creator and screenwriter
2009 Comic Relief 2009 Evan Davis
Theo Profiterole
Duncan Guillotine
TV film
Horne & Corden Episode: "Episode #1.4"
2010 Bellamy's People Various charactersAlso director and screenwriter
2014 The Life of Rock with Brian Pern Pat Quid
Mike "Smashie" Smash
Harry and Paul's Story of the TwosVarious characters
2015 Nurse BillyAlso screenwriter
2018– present Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing Himself
2020Smashie's Christmastastic PlaylistMike "Smashie" Smash
2021 Murder, They Hope MontyEpisode: "Evil Under the Bun"
2022The Lovebox in Your Living RoomVarious
2023Paul Whitehouse: Our Troubled RiversHimselfTwo-part documentary [34]
Dodger Royston, Chief of the Yeomen Warders Episode: "Coronation" [35]
TBC The Change TV series [36]

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryFilm/seriesResult [37]
1995 Writers' Guild of Great Britain AwardTV – Light Entertainment
Shared with Harry Enfield, Simon Greenall, Ian Hislop, Geoffrey Perkins, Nick Newman, Harry Thompson & Kay Stonham
Harry Enfield & Chums Won
1996 British Comedy Award Top Male Comedy Performer The Fast Show Won
1997 BAFTA TV Award Best Light Entertainment (Programme or Series)
Shared with Charlie Higson, Sid Roberson & Mark Mylod
Nominated
Writers' Guild of Great Britain AwardTV – Light Entertainment
Shared with Dave Cummings, Harry Enfield, Ian Hislop, Gary Howe, Graham Linehan, Arthur Mathews, Nick Newman, Geoffrey Perkins & Richard Preddy
Harry Enfield & ChumsWon
1998 BAFTA TV Award Best Light Entertainment (Programme or Series)
Shared with Charlie Higson & Mark Mylod
The Fast ShowWon
Best Light Entertainment PerformanceWon
1999 British Comedy Award Best TV Comedy Actor Ted & Ralph Nominated
2002 BAFTA TV Award Situation Comedy Award
Shared with David Cummings, Declan Lowney & Rosemary McGowan
Happiness Nominated
2006Best Comedy Programme or Series
Shared with Jane Berthoud, Chris Langham & Declan Lowney
Help Won
2008 Banff World Media Festival AwardBest Comedy Program
Shared with Harry Enfield
Harry & Paul Nominated
2009 British Comedy Award Best Sketch Show
Shared with Harry Enfield
Won
2010Nominated
2011 BAFTA TV Award Best Comedy Program
Shared with Harry Enfield, Sandy Johnson & Izzy Mant
Won

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Notes

  1. In the Christmas 2021 Special edition of Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing , Bob Mortimer presents Whitehouse with a recording of his mother, singing with the Welsh National Opera, specially transferred to vinyl. [4]