Bob Monkhouse

Bob Monkhouse was born on Jun 01, 1928 in UK. Bob Monkhouse's big-screen debut came with Secret People directed by Thorold Dickinson in 1952, strarring Hairdresser. Bob Monkhouse is known for Aaagh! It's the Mr. Hell Show! directed by Andy Bartlett, Bob Monkhouse stars as Mr. Hell and Paul Dobson as Various. The most recent award Bob Monkhouse achieved is Television and Radio Industries Club Awards. The upcoming new tvshow Bob Monkhouse plays is Aaagh! It's the Mr. Hell Show! - Season 1 which will be released on Oct 07, 2001.

One of British TV's most popular performers with a career that spanned over four decades, funny-man Bob Monkhouse started off as a radio broadcaster (1947) and stand-up comic. He earned success early on as a gag writer, partnering with Denis Goodwin.In 1953, the duo won their own TV show called Fast and Loose (1954), which was sketch-comedy based. A nightclub comedian to boot, he also pursued films on occasion appearing in such slapstick dillies as Allez-y sergent! (1958), Dentist in the Chair (1960), Dentist on the Job (1961) and A Weekend with Lulu (1961). But TV would be his prime venue, and he moved quite easily into various parlor game and variety show hosting duties.For Love or Money (1959) was his first, a Brit version of "Candid Camera". Along the way, he found emceeing chores with The London Palladium Show (1966), The Golden Shot (1967) (which made him a household name), Celebrity Squares (1975) (based on The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1965)), Family Fortunes (1980), "The $64,000 Question", Opportunity Knocks (1956), The National Lottery (1994), and many others. Monkhouse died in 2003 of prostate cancer.