Ted Hills
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| EastEnders character | |||||||||||||||||
| Portrayed by | Brian Croucher | ||||||||||||||||
| Duration | 1995–1997 | ||||||||||||||||
| First appearance | Episode 1175 24 August 1995 |
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| Last appearance | Episode 1488 12 August 1997 |
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| Classification | Former; regular | ||||||||||||||||
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| Occupation | Hardware store owner | ||||||||||||||||
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| Father | Dennis Hills |
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| Mother | Brenda Hills |
| Brothers | Colin Hills Jonathan Hills |
| Sisters |
Kathy Beale Stephanie Hills |
| Wife | Irene Carter (divorced) |
| Sons | Tony Hills |
| Daughters | Sarah Hills |
| Nephews |
Ian Beale Ben Mitchell |
Edward "Ted" Hills is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Brian Croucher. He was introduced in 1995 as the patriarch of the Hills family, who are the extended family of established character Kathy Beale (Gillian Taylforth). Ted was axed in 1997.
Ted grew up in Walford and came from an impoverished family headed by an alcoholic father. He was protective towards his family, in particular his younger sister Kathy (Gillian Taylforth), so when she started dating a local named Pete Beale (Peter Dean) c.1965, Ted initially took a dislike to him. Pete seemingly won Ted's blessing and for a while Ted worked with Pete on his market stall. One day Ted asked Pete if he could store some of his stuff in his lock-up overnight. Pete agreed and that night the police came and found stolen goods in the lock-up. Pete was arrested but would not implicate Ted and came close to being imprisoned as a result. Pete's best friend Den Watts (Leslie Grantham) believed Ted had planted the stolen goods on purpose to get Pete in trouble. Den threatened Ted's life so Ted fled from Walford.
Ted married Irene Carter (Roberta Taylor) and they had two children, Tony (Mark Homer) in 1976 and Sarah (Daniela Denby-Ashe) in 1980. Irene was discontent in marriage and she left Ted and her children. Ted's building company got into trouble because of a health and safety "accident" and he was fined for negligence when an employee died of injuries while working for Ted. In actuality, the boy's death was not an accident; Ted's friend, Jimmy Doyle (Patrick Duggan) had killed him when he tried to warn the boy away from sexually harassing 14-year-old Sarah. Jimmy hit the boy and he fell from scaffolding and died. Ted covered for Jimmy because in the past, Jimmy had taken the blame for a crime Ted committed and had served a prison sentence. Ted's family started to get victimized by the dead boy's family and were forced to leave their area of residence in 1995.
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