Barry Hilton

David Barry Hilton is a South African stand up comedian. Referred to by his middle name, Barry , actor and television personality. Afteryears of initially working as an electrician he tried his hand at comedy and turned professional in 1983 at the age of 26. Inspired by comedians Richard Pryor and Billy Connolly, Hiltons personal style can best be described as a combination of observational, satirical and physical comedy.

Hilton was born in 1956 to Irene Natalie Lieveaux, a French Mauritian descendant and Lancashireborn father Jack Hilton. In 1961 Hiltons family moved from Southern Rhodesia to North Wales where he attended St Josephs Roman Catholic Junior School from the age of to the age of. Agestowere spent at Blessed Edward Jones RC High School in Rhyl until the family relocated to Newlands in Cape Town, South Africa where his father worked as a bricklayer. From March 1969 to December 1971 Hilton was a pupil at Observatory Boys but left at ageto start an apprenticeship at Joffe Electrical, which he completed in 1974.

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