IN CHARACTER
A face you won’t forget
Fred Scuttle
Played by Benny Hill
Benny Hill's cheerful, bespectacled entrepreneur, recognisable by his sideways cap and open-palmed salute. Interviewed about one ambitious venture after another, from airlines to a private Channel Tunnel, he misreads the questions and…
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Benny Hill's cheerful, bespectacled entrepreneur, recognisable by his sideways cap and open-palmed salute. Interviewed about one ambitious venture after another, from airlines to a private Channel Tunnel, he misreads the questions and finds innuendo in the interviewer's vocabulary.
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