South Hill Park is a street in the Hampstead district of

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. It is within the

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, and some of its houses overlook Hampstead Heath.

Transport links

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, on the North London Line, is at the southern end of South Hill Park. Buses, chiefly the number 24, depart from nearby South End Green.

Ruth Ellis

The last woman to be hanged in Britain, Ruth Ellis, was sentenced to death for a murder committed on South Hill Park. She shot her boyfriend David Blakely outside a public house, The Magdala, on 10 April 1955.

In popular culture

The opening shots of 1965 film '' Licensed to Kill'' (a low-budget pastiche of James Bond films) are filmed at the southern end of the street near the entrance to Hampstead Heath opposite the station.

Notable residents

*The Australian Prime Minister

Andrew Fisher Andrew Fisher (29 August 186222 October 1928) was an Australian politician who served three terms as prime minister of Australia – from 1908 to 1909, from 1910 to 1913, and from 1914 to 1915. He was the leader of the Australian Labor Party ...

spent his retirement and last years in South Hill Park, 1922–28. *The film director

Anthony Minghella Anthony Minghella, (6 January 195418 March 2008) was a British film director, playwright and screenwriter. He was chairman of the board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007. He won the Academy Award for Best Directo ...

lived in South Hill Park until his death in 2008. His son,

Max Minghella Max Giorgio Choa Minghella (born 16 September 1985) is an English actor, film producer, director, and screenwriter. He is known for his roles in the films ''Syriana'' (2005), ''Art School Confidential'' (2006), ''Elvis and Anabelle'' (2007), '' ...

, had a role in the film '' Hippie Hippie Shake'', parts of which were shot in the street and its surrounding area.Sienna Miller Online , Welcome
* Jonathan Ross and his family lived on South Hill Park in the 1990s. *The poet

Adrian Mitchell Adrian Mitchell FRSL (24 October 1932 – 20 December 2008) was an English poet, novelist and playwright. A former journalist, he became a noted figure on the British Left. For almost half a century he was the foremost poet of the country's C ...

lived in South Hill Park until his death in 2008. *

David Baddiel David Lionel Baddiel (; born 28 May 1964) is an English comedian, presenter, screenwriter, and author. He is known for his work alongside Rob Newman in ''The Mary Whitehouse Experience'' and his comedy partnership with Frank Skinner. He has als ...

Bill Oddie William Edgar Oddie (born 7 July 1941) is an English writer, comedian, songwriter, musician, artist, birder, conservationist, television presenter and actor. He was a member of comedy trio The Goodies. A birder since his childhood in Quinto ...

, ornithologist and comedian, lived in South Hill Park in the 70s and 80s *

Terrance Dicks Terrance William Dicks (14 April 1935 – 29 August 2019) was an English author and television screenwriter, script editor and producer. In television, he had a long association with the BBC science-fiction series ''Doctor Who'', working a ...

, author and scriptwriter for '' Doctor Who'', has lived in South Hill Park since the 60s *

Terry Gilliam Terrence Vance Gilliam (; born 22 November 1940) is an American-born British filmmaker, comedian, animator, actor and former member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. Gilliam has directed 13 feature films, including '' Time Bandits'' (1981), '' ...

, comedian, artist and film director, lived in South Hill Park in the 70s and 80s * John Williams, classical guitarist, lived in South Hill Park in the 1970s and 80s

References

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