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Paul Whitehouse (born 17 May 1958 in Caerphilly, Glamorgan, Wales) is a British comedian and actor. Whitehouse's father worked for the National Coal Board and his mother was a singer with the Welsh National Opera. The family moved to London when he was four years old.

He is best known for his work with Harry Enfield and as one of the stars of the popular BBC sketch show, The Fast Show.

Contents 1 Television 2 Radio 3 Films 4 External links

Whitehouse was co-creator with Enfield of the character 'Loadsamoney' and appeared as his sidekick Lance on Channel 4's Saturday Live.

Whitehouse has worked extensively for the BBC, firstly as a writer and then a performer on shows such as Harry Enfield's Television Programme, where he developed numerous characters including 'Mike Smash' of Smashie and Nicey. In 1994 he found wider fame as part of the cast of The Fast Show with former friend from the University of East Anglia, Charlie Higson. His Fast Show characters included:

• Rowley Birkin QC
• The 13th Duke of Wymbourne
• Archie (hardest game in the world)
• Chris Jackson
• Unlucky Alf
• Arthur Atkinson
• 'Brilliant'
• Ron Manager
• Ken, one of the Suit You tailors
• Lindsey, one of the Offroaders
• Poutremos Poutra-Poutremos, anchor of the foreign TV station Chanel 9 sketch.

In 2001 and 2002 Whitehouse wrote and performed in two series of the BBC comedy drama Happiness, in which he played a voice-over actor with a mid-life crisis.

Most recently Whitehouse wrote, produced and appeared (with Chris Langham) in the 2005 comedy drama Help, also for the BBC. In this show he takes 25 different roles, all patients of Langham's psychotherapist (except one, who is Langham's psychotherapist's psychotherapist).

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.

Whitehouse has had a number of small roles in film, principally:

• Kevin and Perry Go Large - 'Bouncer', with Harry Enfield
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - 'Sir Cadogan'.
• Finding Neverland - 'Stage Manager' (with his friend and admirer Johnny Depp; Whitehouse's daughters Molly and Sophie have non-speaking roles as orphans in the film)
• Corpse Bride - 'William Van Dort' (again, with Johnny Depp)

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

• BBC - South East Wales - Hall of Fame - Paul Whitehouse
• BBC Comedy Guide
• Paul Whitehouse at the Internet Movie Database