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BABS

Played by Barbara Windsor

Seen in Camping, Babs (real name Barbara) is one of the nubile young ladies from Chayste Place, a finishing school, camping at the Paradise Camp Site. Out to enjoy herself, the mischievous Babs flirts with Sid Boggle, much to his girlfriend’s chagrin, while under canvas, before heading off on the back of a lorry with other partygoers at an all-nite rave in the adjoining field. (Note: in an early draft of the script, a character called Rosemary was due to lose her bikini top.)

BADEN-SEMPER, NINA

Role: Girl Nosha in Up the Jungle

Born in the West Indies in 1945, Nina Baden-Semper first appeared on screen in the 1960s but is best known for playing Barbie Reynolds in five series of the controversial sitcom, Love Thy Neighbour, during the 1970s.

Other small screen credits include Rainbow City, Counterstrike, Callan, George and Mildred and Children’s Ward. She appeared most recently in the revival of Crossroads. Her occasional film credits include Kongi’s Harvest, The Love Ban and 1999’s Rage.

BAGLEY, LADY EVELYN

Played by Joan Sims

Seen in Up the Jungle on the expedition into the jungles of Africa. Soon after her baby boy, Cecil, was born, her husband whisked her off to the African jungle for a belated honeymoon. Tragedy struck when her hubby took their son for an early morning stroll along the banks of the Limpopo River and neither were seen again. When her husband’s fob watch was later discovered inside a crocodile’s stomach, and her son’s nappy abandoned on the riverbank, she feared the worst. Now she has returned to try and find the nappy pin, just something she can cling on to as a memory of her little boy.

When she unexpectedly meets Cecil, the Jungle Boy, and finds he has a big, silver safety pin holding his loincloth together, she suddenly realises her little baby – now a very big baby – is still alive. She’s desperate to find her son and is finally reunited by the time Lady Bagley and the other members of the party, who manage to escape the grip of the Lubidubies, a female tribe in the jungle, head home; by then, she also comes face-to-face with her long-lost husband, who’s been given the title of King Tonka by the Lubidubies, and she returns to England with him in tow, too.

BAGLEY, WALTER

Played by Charles Hawtrey

It was thought that Walter Bagley, alias King Tonka in Up the Jungle, had been eaten by a crocodile in the African jungle. Whilst honeymooning with his wife, Evelyn, and their little baby boy, Cecil, he decided to take his son for an early morning stroll through the jungle. Nothing was seen of him, or the little boy, again; when his watch was later found inside a dead crocodile’s stomach, it was assumed he’d been eaten alive.

Lady Bagley, therefore, is shocked when she’s reunited with her husband, who hadn’t been gobbled up at all; he’s been living the life of Riley with the Lubidubies, a tribe of females, who appointed him King Tonka with the sole duty of mating with as many girls as possible. All those years ago, his watch was eaten by a warrior from the Nosha tribe, who was then eaten by a crocodile. The Noshas had captured Walter and his life was in peril until rescued by the Lubidubies.

When Lady Bagley returns home she takes Walter with her, whom the Lubidubies lose interest in once his wife appears on the scene.

BAGPIPE SOLDIER

Played by Simon Cain

A soldier of the 3rd Foot and Mouth in Up The Khyber.

BAGSHAW, CAPTAIN

Played by Peter Gilmore

One of Lady Jane Ponsonby’s many suitors in Follow That Camel, Bagshaw tries his utmost to see another, Bertram West, written off by accusing him of cheating at cricket. When West is banned from ever stepping foot inside the Ponsonbys’ mansion again, Humphrey Bagshaw’s conscience gets the better of him: realising he’s acted despicably, he tries committing suicide.

BAILEY, ANTHONY

Role: Rider in Dick

Londoner Anthony Bailey was born in 1933 and trained at the City Literary Institute. Primarily a stage actor, he appeared on the screen from time to time. On television, he had a running part as Roddy Barrows in Crossroads and was also seen in, among others, Arthur of the Britons, Barlow at Large, The New Avengers, The Professionals, Grange Hill and The Bill. His film credits included The Main Chance, Thunderball, The Deadly Bees and Hussy.

Most recently, he was appearing at the National Theatre in London. He died in 2004, aged seventy-one.

BAILEY, JAMES

Played by Kenneth Williams

In Sergeant, James Bailey is a member of Sergeant Grimshaw’s Able Platoon. An educated snob, he ruffles Grimshaw’s feathers from day one with his supercilious manner. Eventually, though, he blends with the rest of the platoon and is instrumental in persuading them to give their utmost to become champion platoon. A graduate, his abilities are put to good use when he moves to the Education Corps after basic training.

BAIRD, ANTHONY

Role: Guard in Spying

Born in London in 1920, Anthony Baird has appeared in over a dozen films, including Passport to Treason, Operation Conspiracy, Echo of Diana, The Ipcress File, Cheetah and Braxton, but his most notable appearance was in Ealing’s 1945 compendium, Dead of Night.

His television credits range from The Count of Monte Cristo and The Avengers to Strangers and a running role, as Mr Pearson, in Crossroads.

BAKER PLATOON

Sergeant Mathews’ platoon at Heathercrest National Service Depot in Sergeant.

BAKSH, SHAKIRA

Role: Scrubba in Again Doctor

Crowned Miss Guyana in 1967, Shakira Baksh came third in that year’s Miss World contest.

Born in 1947, she worked as a librarian and fashion model in Guyana before coming to England for the Miss World contest. She continued modelling and made a handful of screen appearances during the 1970s, including a couple of episodes of UFO. She was also seen in the films Son of Dracula and The Man Who Would Be King, with Michael Caine, whom she had married in 1973. Caine had first noticed Baksh in a Maxwell House coffee advert.

BALD-HEADED DOWAGER

Played by Joan Ingram

Seen at Sir Rodney Ffing’s charity ball in Don’t Lose Your Head, the bald-headed Dowager’s wig is accidentally blown off her head.

BALFOUR, MICHAEL

Role: Matt in Constable

From Genevieve and Man From Tangier in the 1950s to Batman and The Holcroft Covenant in the 1980s, character actor Michael Balfour was regularly in demand.

Born in Kent in 1918, he appeared in films from the late 1940s, including an uncredited role in the 1948 picture, Sleeping Car to Trieste. Other notable credits included Venetian Bird, Johnny On the Run and The Sea Shall Not Have Them. On the small screen, he was seen in, among others, Hancock’s Half Hour, Dixon of Dock Green, Man from Interpol and Department S.

Away from the screen, he created his own clown character and toured Europe with Gerry Cottle’s Circus. He was also an accomplished sculptor and painter, opening a gallery in Spain.

He died in 1997, aged seventy-nine.

BALL, NURSE SUSAN

Played by Barbara Windsor

Employed at the Finisham Maternity Hospital in Matron, the even-tempered Nurse Ball shares her room – number sixteen at the nurses’ home – with Nurse Carter, aka Cyril Carter. She realises he’s a fella when he falls over steps and reveals his unmistakable underwear. Upon discovering the motives behind Cyril’s disguise, she agrees to keep mum and ends up falling in love with her roommate.

BALL, VINCENT

Roles: Jenkins in Cruising and Ship’s Officer in Follow That Camel

Vincent Ball, who was born in Wee Waa, New South Wales, Australia, in 1923, left school at fourteen and worked as a messenger boy until, aged eighteen, he joined the Australian Air Force. He trained in Canada and the Bahamas before completing his tour of operations in England and Scotland.

Ball returned to Australia in 1945 and decided upon a career in acting. To reach England, he secured a job on a Swedish cargo ship and spent seven months cleaning the decks en route to the UK.

He’d previously written to film studios enquiring about work and was lucky enough, upon reaching England, to complete underwater swimming scenes for non-swimmer Donald Houston in the 1949 film, The Blue Lagoon. After his first taste of the film industry, he trained at RADA between 1949–51 and moved into repertory theatre, beginning at Leatherhead.

His film career started in the late 1940s and encompassed a host of pictures, including The Interrupted Journey, Dangerous Voyage, The Black Rider and Where Eagles Dare. More recently he’s been seen in, among others, The Man Who Sued God and The Cherry Orchard. On television, his credits include International Detective, Man in a Suitcase, Shannon’s Mob, The Outsiders, Mission Impossible and running roles in A Country Practice and Crossroads.

Ball’s recent work has mainly been in Australian television and films, which is where he’s lived since 1973.

BALLET MONTPARNASSE, THE

Roles: The Dancing Girls in Cowboy

The ballet company was occupied in light entertainment, appearing on numerous Variety bills in the 1950s and ’60s for Moss Empires, Stoll Theatres and other venues around the British Isles.

BALLS BOOK OF ENGLISH LAW

The book Bettina consults in Henry to check whether her marriage to King Henry VIII, a service he conducted himself, is legal; as he climbs into her bed he tries convincing her it’s all above board but she later learns the truth, and it’s just as well she resisted his advances because she’s later whisked off across the channel by Francis, the King of France, to become the country’s Queen.

BALSWORTH YOUTH HOSTEL

The youth hostel where the girls from Chayste Place stay en route to the Paradise Camp Site in Devon. The building is seen in Camping.

BANDLEADER

Played by Eric Rogers

Appears on stage in Again Doctor at the Long Hampton Hospital’s grand buffet and dance. He’s the bandleader of Alec and the Officers. (Note: this is the Eric Rogers who composed and conducted the music for so many of the Carry On films.)

BAND OF THE COLDSTREAM GUARDS

Played the music for Sergeant.

BANGOR, MISS

Played by Angela Grant

A brunette in the Miss Fircombe beauty contest who’s seen in Girls.

BANGS THAT MADE HISTORY

A book two schoolgirls borrow from the library at Maudlin Street Secondary Modern School in Teacher. They wait until Mr Adams, the science teacher, is on duty before requesting the title because they want him to believe they’re constructing a bomb – all part of the master plan to stop the acting head from leaving at the end of term.

BANK MANAGER

Played by Michael Nightingale

The bank manager in Stodge City is seen in Cowboy exasperated when the Rumpo Kid shoots yet another of his bank clerks. He explains they’ve been dropping like flies since the Kid arrived in town.

BANKS, EVELYN

Played by Patsy Rowlands

Sir Bernard Cutting’s trustworthy secretary in Matron.

BANKS, PETER

Role: Gunner Thomas in England

Born in St Thomas, Canada, in 1943, Peter Banks studied political science at university in Ottawa, where his interest in acting escalated. His father, who worked for the Canadian government, was posted to the UK so when Banks graduated, he followed his parents in 1967, initially earning a living at a West End casino.

After a year’s training at a studio theatre in Brighton, he began working in children’s theatre before joining Darlington Rep. He’d gained significant stage experience by the time he made his screen debut, on television, in The Private Thoughts of Julius Caesar. Other small-screen credits include The Famous Five, Oppenheimer and Seven Wonders of the Industrial World. His film credits include Death Wish 3, Highlander, Going Home and Method.

BARKER, ERIC

Roles: Captain Potts in Sergeant, Inspector Mills in Constable, The Chief in Spying and Ancient General in Emmannuelle. Also Cruising was based on an idea of Barker’s

Eric Barker, who made his name on radio’s Merry-Go-Round during the Second World War, a programme in which he adopted the catchphrase, ‘Steady, Barker!’, was born in Thornton Heath, Surrey, in 1912.

He became one of radio’s favourite stars but also found time to clock up numerous screen credits, including Brothers in Law (for which he won a British Film Academy Award for the most promising newcomer), Happy Is The Bride, Bachelor of Hearts and Left, Right and Centre.

‘What’s this wiggly thing?’ asks Cleopatra (Amanda Barrie) (Cleo)

His working life began at his father’s wholesale paper business before he started writing short stories for magazines of the 1920s and ’30s; he also wrote plays and novels. In 1931 he joined the Birmingham Repertory Company and, two years on, began a long association with the Windmill Theatre, subsequently becoming the venue’s leading comedian. Also in this year, he made his radio debut in First Time Here.

During the Second World War he served in the Royal Navy after which he returned to radio to star in some of the great series between 1945–49. Although he made brief appearances on television, it was radio, film and stage work that occupied most of his career.

He died in 1990, aged seventy-eight.

BARKER, KEN

Sound Recordist on Cowboy, Screaming!, Don’t Lose Your Head, Follow That Camel, Doctor, Up The Khyber, Camping, Again Doctor, Up the Jungle, Loving, Henry, At Your Convenience, Matron, Abroad, Girls, Dick, Behind and That’s Carry On

During a busy career, the late Ken Barker worked on over fifty films. A sound recordist from the 1960s, his credits included The Long Duel, Countess Dracula, Twins of Evil, Kidnapped, Doomwatch, Educating Rita, Trail of the Pink Panther and four Bond movies: Live and Let Die, The Man With the Golden Gun, For Your Eyes Only and Octopussy. His television work included the sci-fi series UFO and Born to Run.

BARMAN

Played by Bill Pertwee

Works at the cocktail bar in the Parkway Hotel and is on duty when Bertie Muffet arrives to meet Esme Crowfoot in Loving. A case of mistaken identity sees Muffet walk out with Sally Martin, a model, who’s supposed to be waiting for a photographer.

BARMAN

Played by Simon Cain

Works at the Brighton hotel frequented by the staff of William Boggs and Son, a toilet ware manufacturer, whilst on their annual jolly. He’s seen in At Your Convenience.

BARMAN

Played by Kenneth Waller

Works behind the bar at the Riverside Caravan Site’s clubhouse during the cabaret evening in Behind.

BARNES, DAPHNE

Played by Joan Sims

Linda Upmore’s interfering mother is seen in Behind, making a nuisance of herself while accompanying her daughter and son-in-law on a caravan holiday to the Riverside Caravan Site. It’s hardly surprising she hasn’t seen her husband, Henry, for ten years, given her manner and constant complaining. She ran a pub until her hubby sold it, and claims she did all the work while he lazed around. She receives a big shock when she bumps into her former spouse at the caravan site, where he works as an odd-job man. Before the holiday is over, they’ve reignited the flame and plan on giving their marriage another try.

BARNES, HENRY

Played by Peter Butterworth

In Behind, Henry Barnes works as an odd-job man for Major Leep at the Riverside Caravan Site. Although he’s paid peanuts, he boasts around twenty grand in his bank account thanks to a win on the pools. He hasn’t seen his wife, Daphne, for ten years, ever since selling the pub they used to run, a decision which didn’t go down too well with his missus, who always claimed Henry was a lazy individual. He can’t believe his eyes when he bumps into his ex-wife at the caravan site, and before long they’re reliving old times and planning a future together.

BARRIE, AMANDA

Roles: Anthea in Cabby and Cleopatra in Cleo

Born in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, in 1939, Amanda Barrie started dancing and singing in her grandfather’s theatre in Ashton at the age of three. A trained dancer, Barrie was only thirteen when she became a chorus girl in London, debuting in Babes in the Wood, and in 1956 became a regular at London’s Winston’s Club.

She broke into the film world playing small parts in, among others, 1959’s Operation Bullshine, A Pair of Briefs a year later and 1963’s Doctor in Distress before the first of two Carry On appearances.

She’s probably best known, however, for her television work. As well as appearances in shows such as The Seven Faces of Jim, Danger Man, Are You Being Served?, L for Lester and, in recent years, Doctors and Hell’s Kitchen, she’ll always be remembered for playing Alma in Coronation Street and Bev in Bad Girls.

MEMORIES

‘As a revue I was in, Six of One, stumbled to its close in the summer of 1963, I was to have a gap of three weeks before going into the already acclaimed musical She Loves Me, at the Lyric Theatre, taking over from Rita Moreno. I had also been hired to play Cleo in the film Carry On Cleo, which, of course, was to turn out to be a real landmark for me. But my agent had made a ghastly mistake. It transpired that the filming of Cleo actually started on the same day that I was to go into She Loves Me. By the time we found out it was already too late to drop out of one of them decently, even if I had wanted to. So lucky old me, not just eight shows a week, but two productions at the same time.

‘I remain extraordinarily grateful to the Carry Ons. At the time they were just another job, but they had such visual impact that the images from them remain in people’s minds. It always surprises me that I receive just as many letters about Cleo, which was just one film made almost forty years ago, as I do about the Street. In spite of other people’s kind opinions I have never thought I was any good in Cleo.’

‘I really was naked in that bath – apart from bits of plaster over my nipples which looked pretty silly. Although tastefully shot from the back, this was very unusual in the early sixties. It seemed perfectly normal to me of course. I was an old chorus girl, more used to being undressed most of the time than dressed.’

AMANDA BARRIE – from her autobiography, It’s Not A Rehearsal

BARRON, MR

Played by Charles Hawtrey

Seen in Doctor, Mr Barron spends much of his time asleep on Fosdick Ward. When his wife, Mildred, told him she was expecting, he went into deep shock and was admitted to Borough County Hospital suffering a phantom pregnancy. Deciding to play along with his nonsense, Dr Tinkle sends him to pre-natal classes, which he finds humiliating, but by the end of his spell in hospital his wife gives birth and he becomes the proud father of a little boy.

BARRON, MRS

Played by Gwendolyn Watts

Mildred Barron is the pregnant wife of Mr Barron. When she told her husband they were expecting, he went into shock and was admitted to Borough County Hospital suffering a phantom pregnancy. Seen in Doctor visiting her hubby.

BARRY, HILDA

Role: Grandma Grubb in Loving

Born in California in 1896, Hilda Barry spent her early career in the theatre before becoming a regular face on the screen from the mid-1950s.

On television she made several appearances in Dixon of Dock Green as well as The Flying Doctor, The Prisoner, Special Branch, Quatermass and, latterly, Angels. Her film credits included The Drayton Case, John of the Fair, Never Back Losers, Poor Cow, On the Buses, Steptoe and Son Ride Again and her last picture, The Confessional.

She died in 1977, aged eighty.

BARRY, MR & MRS

Unseen characters in Constable, the Barries live at 35 Nathaniel Road. While they’re away visiting their first grandchild in Canada, their neighbour, Miss Horton, reports an intruder entering their property, but it’s a false alarm because it’s only their daughter, Sally, returning early from a trip to Cornwall.

BARRY, SALLY

Played by Shirley Eaton

Befriended by PC Potter in Constable, Sally is an attractive blonde whom Potter encounters while investigating a possible break-in at 35 Nathaniel Road. Upset, Sally had been visiting her fiancé’s family in Cornwall when she rowed with her beloved Eric.

BARTLETT, RICHARD

Role: Gunner Drury in England

Richard Bartlett, who’s semi-retired from the industry, spent many years performing on stage, while appearing sporadically on television and in films during the 1970s.

On the small screen he was seen in Robin’s Nest and Minder, as well as playing Nigel in 1977’s Follow Me and General Vishishmou in The Tomorrow People. Other film credits include Loving Feeling and The Pink Panther Strikes Again.

BASIC JAPANESE

The book, written by R. Morrison, is read by Francis Courtenay during an idle moment in Regardless.

BATT, BERT

Assistant Director on Teacher and Matron

Born in Islington, London, in 1930, Bert Batt entered the film industry straight from elementary school. Taking the advice of his father, he wrote to Gainsborough Studios, two miles down the road from where he lived, and within weeks was hired as a gofer, earning twenty-five shillings a week.

In 1946 he became a third assistant but his career was interrupted two years later by National Service. Back in civvies in 1950, he joined Pinewood Studios and completed ten years’ service under contract before going freelance. His long career has encompassed over seventy films, including True As A Turtle, Rockets Galore!, Make Mine Mink, Zulu, The Dirty Dozen, The Spiral Staircase, The Man Who Would Be King, The Sea Wolves and, in 1998, Les Misérables.

Batt has also worked in television, including the 1990 Jeeves and Wooster comedy series.

BATTLEAXE

Played by Judith Furse

Seen in Cabby, this aggressive woman – who’s a widow – is picked up by Charlie Hawkins in his taxi. As Charlie piles her suitcases into the car, it looks like she’s taking everything but the kitchen sink.

BAWDEN, JAMES

Camera Operator on Doctor, Up The Khyber, Camping, Again Doctor, Up the Jungle, Loving, At Your Convenience and Matron

James Bawden, who was born in the Scottish town of Motherwell in 1920, began working as a camera operator in the early 1950s on films such as The Long Memory, Desperate Moment and The Million Pound Note.

Apart from a period working on the popular cult television series The Avengers, he’s worked primarily in films with other credits including The Square Peg, Doctor in Love, Crooks Anonymous, Quest for Love, The Eagle Has Landed, The Wild Geese and, in 1982, Witness for the Prosecution.

BAXTER, JOE

Played by Ian Lavender

Goes on holiday to the Riverside Caravan Site with his wife, Norma, and her huge pet dog, Ollie, which is the bane of his life. Seen in Behind.

BAXTER, NORMA

Played by Adrienne Posta

With her frizzy blonde hairdo, Norma is the wife of Joe Baxter. Seen in Behind holidaying at the Riverside Caravan Site with her spouse and their huge pet dog, Ollie, who seems more important to her than Joe.

MEMORIES

‘First and foremost for me was Peter Rogers and Gerry Thomas, two of the nicest men you could wish to meet. The shooting was tough, a rigid budget and a six-week shoot with no overtime. It was non-stop but a continual laugh and some of the days were hysterical.

‘The cast were great. Kenneth Williams never stopped talking, much of it deliciously outrageous. One day, on Matron, he slipped off a rostrum and fell to the floor. Gladys Goldsmith, the continuity girl, sat puce at her typewriter as he regaled her, loudly as ever, with the pain he was suffering from his sexual organs that had found contact with the rostrum on his descent and what the consequences might be. It was utter rubbish, of course.

‘There were so many funny moments that they all blur into each other and it’s difficult after all these years to remember them. One other I recall was on Teacher. Ken Connor had to walk down a corridor, enter the science class, take the stopper off a large glass jar, sniff it and make a face. It was a tracking shot with a low camera, awkward for the camera operator, Alan Hume. We put a stink bomb in the jar and on the first take Alan was shaking so much with anticipatory laughter in his hunched position that he fell off the dolly. I think all of us who saw that can still see Ken’s face as he sniffed the jar.

‘I worked on so many films that unless you keep a list, which I never did, some of them get forgotten, but the one thing you don’t forget is having worked on the Carry Ons with the crazy cast.’

BERT BATT

BAYNTUN, AMELIA

Roles: Mrs Fussey in Camping, Corset Lady in Loving, Mrs Spragg in At Your Convenience, Mrs Jenkins in Matron and Mrs Tuttle in Abroad

A busy stage actress, Amelia Bayntun, born in 1919, also occasionally appeared on the screen. On television, her credits included Dixon of Dock Green, Adamant Lives!, On the Buses and her biggest role, two series as Ada Bissel in Thames Television’s Dear Mother … Love Albert.

She died in 1988, aged sixty-eight.

BBC NEWSCASTER

Played by Tim Brinton

During Emmannuelle he’s seen on the box reporting on the numerous affairs of Emmannuelle, the French Ambassador’s sex-mad wife.

BEACH PHOTOGRAPHER

Played by Alec Bregonzi

On Brighton Pier in At Your Convenience, the Beach Photographer is earning a living taking photos of happy tourists. (Note: the scene was cut.)