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Rolf Harris Wiki Biography

Rolf Harris, (born 30 March 1930) is an Australian entertainer. He is a musician, singer-songwriter, composer, painter, and former television personality. He has lived in the UK for more than five decades, and resided in Bray, Berkshire.Harris, who was born and grew up in Perth, Western Australia, was a champion swimmer before studying art. In 1952, he moved to the United Kingdom, where he started to draw animations for television programmes. Harris soon afterwards began a musical career, initially singing and playing the piano accordion. In 1957, he wrote “Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport”, which later became a Top 10 hit in Australia, the UK, and the United States. While performing in Canada, he introduced a longstanding, popular routine around his song “Jake the Peg”. Harris has often used unusual instruments in his performances: he plays the didgeridoo; is credited with the invention of the wobble board (a rhythmic percussion instrument); and is associated with the Stylophone, a small electronic keyboard instrument.During the 1960s and 1970s, Harris became a popular television personality in Britain, later presenting shows including Rolf’s Cartoon Club, Animal Hospital, and various programmes about serious art. In 2005, he painted an official portrait of Queen Elizabeth II that was the subject of a special episode of Rolf on Art.On 29 August 2013, Harris was charged with six counts of indecent assault relating to a girl aged between 15 and 16 from 1980 to 1981, and three counts of indecent assault relating to a girl aged 14 in 1986. He denied any wrongdoing, and his trial began on 6 May 2014. On 30 June 2014, Harris was found guilty on twelve charges of indecent assault between 1969 and 1986, on four victims aged between 8 and 19 at the time, and was sentenced to a total of five years and nine months in prison. In July 2014, he was imprisoned in HM Prison Bullingdon. Following his conviction, Harris was stripped of many of the honours which he had been awarded during his career. IMDB Wikipedia $19 Million 1930 1930-3-30 5′ 10½” (1.79 m) Actor Alwen Hughes Aries Australia Bassendean Bindi Nicholls March 30 Rolf Harris Rolf Harris Net Worth Soundtrack Western Australia Writer

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Rolf Harris Quotes

• People say “Are you going to retire?” To me that sort of equates with lying down and dying. When you’re doing something you love to do, why would you stop?
• I don’t quite know what the reason for critics’ existence is really. They seem to sit there and try and think of something snide to say about something which is fairly popular, so if it’s popular they think it can’t be any good.
• I don’t mind how they [people] see me as long as they see me.
• [on his longevity] Try and spread a lot of love and affection around the world. The most important thing is not to ‘con’ the public. Be real.
• It’s essential that you make eye contact with your audience. You’ve got to know what’s happening out there. If you make eye contact with just one person, everybody in the place, by some indefinable magic, is sure that you’re talking to them personally.
• I can’t bear the thought of having everything in an exhibition being the same, I hate it when I go into a gallery and the paintings are all identical, with the same subject but from slightly different angles.
• I like to slosh on paint to kill the white of the canvas with a bit of turpentine. Then I start with a blur which looks something like the subject and I gradually refine it.
• I draw the line at filth and crude language. It seems to be an excuse for not being funny.
• I hope that maybe I am on this planet to try and spread a bit of love and affection and to try and help people to warm toward their fellow man instead of all this destruction and misery
• The most wonderful magic is watching someone doing a drawing in front of your eyes and that’s why drawing and painting on TV is wonderful – it’s always a total mystery, and the training I have had in fine art, I have been able to use that.
• Can you tell what it is yet?

Rolf Harris Important Facts

• In June 2014 he was found guilty of (and in July 2014 he was sentenced to 5 years and 9 months) 12 historic indecent assaults against four girls aged between 8 and 19 at the time of the assaults. The sentence was referred to the Attorney General Dominic Grieve after complaints that it was too lenient. On 30 July 2014, the new Attorney General, Jeremy Wright, announced that he would not be referring the sentence to the court of appeal for review “as he did not think they would find it to be unduly lenient and increase it. The sentencing judge was bound by the maximum sentence in force at the time of the offending.” On 1 August 2014, the Judicial Office said that Harris had applied to appeal against his conviction and that his lawyers had lodged papers at the Court of Appeal. In October 2014, Harris was refused permission to appeal. Since his conviction there have been further reports to police regarding alleged sexual offences on young girls and women by him.
• Was for many years the face of British Paints, appearing in television and radio commercials that ended with a drum roll on a can of paint and the catchphrase: “Trust British Paints? Sure can!”.
• Inducted into the Aria Hall of fame. [July 2008]
• He was awarded the Australian Centenary Medal in the 2001 Queen’s New Years Honours List for his services to entertainment, to charity, and to community.
• Harris was one of the guests who performed a cover of “Stairway to Heaven” on the Australian TV series “The Money or the Gun.” Performed to the tune of “Tie Me Kangaroo Down,” Harris’ version became a surprise hit, going to #7 on the charts. Harris’ version appears on a compilation DVD of 25 versions of the song performed on the show.
• He painted a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II as part of her 80th birthday celebrations. It was documented on BBC 1’s The Queen, by Rolf.
• He was awarded the M.B.E. (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1968 Queen’s Birthday Honours List and the O.B.E. (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1977 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for his services to the performing arts.
• He was awarded the C.B.E. (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) for his services to entertainment in the 2006 Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
• Invented the ‘wobble-board’ – a musical instrument basically consisting of a large, flexible piece of wood which makes a characteristic oscillating sound when ‘wobbled’. This was parodied by The Kinks on their 1969 song ‘Australia’, which features a wobble-board solo.
• He and Alwen have a daughter, Bindi Harris (born 10 March 1964). She is named after the town of Bindi Bindi in Western Australia where the Harrises found Bindi stone, a type of fossilised asbestos.
• Named after writer Rolf Boldrewood.
• Has now lived in Britain since 1952: he has had numerous television shows since 1953 when he got an audition drawing cartoons on TV show “Jigsaw”, based on his expertise as both a popular singer and a cartoonist. Queensland, Australia, in 1982 – where he sang Australia.
• He was awarded the A.M. (Member of the Order of Australia) in the 1989 Queen’s New Years Honours List for his services to the community as an entertainer.
• Rolf Harris was a star performer at the Opening Ceremony of the XIIth British Commonwealth Games, which were held in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, in 1982 – where Rolf Harris sang ‘Waltzing Matilda’ and also a restructured form of his best-selling hit: ‘Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport’.
• It was in his capacity as singer/artist, that he was ‘targeted’ in “The Goodies” episode: ‘Scatty Safari’ – where there was a ‘plague of Rolf Harrises’ – all of them singing and painting!
• Has now lived in Britain for many years, where he has had his own television series since 1954, based on his expertise as both a popular singer and an artist.
• Studied at the University of Western Australia.

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