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ОглавлениеCAB DRIVER
Played by Hugh Futcher
Pulls up in his taxi during Again Doctor. He drops Gladstone Screwer off at Dr Nookey’s posh clinic but doesn’t expect to be paid in cigarettes!
CABBY
Played by Norman Mitchell
Seen in Screaming! driving Emily Bung and Mrs Parker around in his taxi when Emily, suspecting her husband of having an affair, wants to keep her beady eye on him.
CABBY, CARRY ON
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CADMAN, TOM
Stills Cameraman on Dick
CAESAR, JULIUS
Played by Kenneth Williams
In Cleo, the leader of the Roman Empire, or that’s what he likes to believe, is a weak-kneed individual hanging on to power by the skin of his teeth.
CAFÉ EL ZIGZIG
Seen in Spying, the café in Algiers is situated in the Street of A Thousand Artisans and where the British agents spot the Fat Man sitting outside wearing a fez.
CAFÉ MOZART
The café in Vienna where the British agent, Carstairs, arranges to meet Simkins and his team of trainee agents in Spying.
CAFÉ ZIGAZIG
Owned by Zig-Zig, this busy café is seen in Follow That Camel.
CAFFIN WARD
In Doctor, this is a women’s ward at the Borough County Hospital.
CAFFIN, YVONNE
Costume Designer on Constable, Spying, Doctor and Camping
Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1904, Yvonne Caffin trained at RADA and then worked in research at the Academy before entering the film industry before the war, working for Gaumont-British and Mayflower. She later joined Islington Studios and Rank, where she spent the lion’s share of her career.
Films she worked on over the years include Miranda, The Astonished Heart, The Browning Version, To Paris With Love, Hell Drivers, Doctor in Clover, A Night to Remember, Tiara Tahiti, The Big Job and, finally, The Executioner.
She died in 1985, aged eighty-one.
CAIN, SIMON
Roles: Short in Cowboy, Riff at Abdul’s Tent in Follow That Camel, Tea Orderly in Doctor, Bagpipe Soldier in Up The Khyber, X-Ray Man in Again Doctor and Barman in At Your Convenience
Born in Orpington, Kent, Simon Cain, while attending Banstead Residential School, volunteered to go to Australia at the age of eleven. At Kingsley Fairbridge Farm School in Western Australia he was taught about life in the outback. At sixteen, he set off on a six-year trip around Australia, moving between jobs, including sheep shearer and motorbike mechanic.
While living in Perth in 1960, earning a living selling television sets, he became interested in amateur dramatics and, later, moved to Sydney where he began appearing in small parts on stage and in films, as well as making the occasional commercial. Other offers soon came his way and he appeared in several episodes of the Australian television Western, Whiplash, and films such as Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, The Sundowners and Coast Watchers. Additional credits during the early 1960s included television adaptations of The Merchant of Venice and the stage plays Show Boat and Once Upon a Mattress.
He returned to England in 1964 and while working for Schweppes secured a part in a play for the Little Theatre Club at London’s St Martin’s Theatre, paving the way for a string of television roles in shows such as Gideon’s Way.
Other television work has seen him in shows such as Doctor Who, Ryan International, Manhunt and Doomwatch, while his film credits include The Blood Beast Terror, School for Love, The Chairman and, in 1969, The Most Dangerous Man in the World.
CAKE, FRANCIS
Played by Mavise Fyson
One of the beauty contestants seen in Girls.
CALPURNIA
Played by Joan Sims
The cantankerous wife of Julius Caesar is seen in Cleo, tired of being left at home while her husband roams the world conquering nations.
CAMEMBERT, CITIZEN
Played by Kenneth Williams
The most feared man in France, although it’s hard to see why, Citizen Camembert is chief of the secret police and is seen in Don’t Lose Your Head. The finest pistol shot in France, Camembert is a key player in the French Revolution, taking great pleasure in sending the aristocracy to the guillotine. When the Black Fingernail, alias Sir Rodney Ffing, arrives from England and causes havoc by saving people from the chop, Camembert is instructed to stop him at all costs, leading him to England in his pursuit.
CAMPING, CARRY ON
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CAMPION, GERALD
Role: Andy Galloway in Sergeant
Born in London in 1921, at the age of fifteen Campion trained at RADA before working for BBC radio and acting on the stage in shows such as French Without Tears and Goodbye Mr Chips.
He was posted to Kenya during World War Two, serving as an RAF wireless operator, after which he returned to England and, due to lack of acting work, opened a club, The Buckstone.
In 1952 he was offered the title role in the BBC series Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School, which ran for ten years and brought him widespread recognition. He went on to appear in, among others, Doctor Who, Minder, Sherlock Holmes and The Kenny Everett Show and accrued a number of film credits including School for Scoundrels, Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Half A Sixpence.
CARRY ON CABBY
An Anglo Amalgamated film
A Peter Rogers production
Distributed by the Rank Organisation
Based on an original idea by S.C. Green and R.M. Hills
Released as a U certificate in 1963 in black & white
Running time: 91 mins
CAST
| Sidney James | Charlie Hawkins |
| Hattie Jacques | Peggy Hawkins |
| Charles Hawtrey | Terry ‘Pintpot’ Tankard |
| Kenneth Connor | Ted Watson |
| Esma Cannon | Flo Sims |
| Liz Fraser | Sally |
| Bill Owen | Smiley |
| Milo O’Shea | Len |
| Jim Dale | Expectant Father |
| Judith Furse | Battleaxe |
| Renée Houston | Molly |
| Ambrosine Phillpotts | Aristocratic Lady |
| Amanda Barrie | Anthea |
| Carole Shelley | Dumb Driver |
| Cyril Chamberlain | Sarge |
| Norman Chappell | Allbright |
| Peter Gilmore | Dancy |
| Michael Ward | Man in Tweeds |
| Noel Dyson | District Nurse |
| Norman Mitchell | Bespectacled Business Man |
| Michael Nightingale | Business Man |
| Ian Wilson | Clerk |
| Peter Byrne | Bridegroom |
| Darryl Kavann | Punchy |
| Don McCorkindale | Tubby |
| Charles Stanley | Geoff |
| Marion Collins | Bride |
| Peter Jesson | Car Salesman |
| Frank Forsyth | Chauffeur |
| Marian Horton | |
| Valerie Van Ost | Glamcab Drivers |
| (Uncredited Glamcab drivers: Elizabeth Kent, Dominique Don, Carole Cole, Anabella MacCartney, Audrey Wilson, Beverly Bennett, Heather Downham, Jean Hamilton, Christine Rodgers, Sally Ann Shaw and Maris Tant.) |
PRODUCTION TEAM
Screenplay by Talbot Rothwell
Music composed and conducted by Eric Rogers
Associate Producer: Frank Bevis
Art Director: Jack Stephens
Editor: Archie Ludski
Director of Photography: Alan Hume BSC
Camera Operator: Godfrey Godar
Unit Manager: Donald Toms
Assistant Director: Peter Bolton
Sound Editor: Arthur Ridout
Sound Recordists: Bill Daniels and Gordon K. McCallum
Hairdressing: Biddy Chrystal
Make-up Artists: Geoffrey Rodway and Jim Hydes
Continuity: Penny Daniels
Costume Designer: Joan Ellacott
The Producers acknowledged the assistance of The London General Cab Co. Ltd and The Ford Motor Company Limited in the making of the film.
Producer: Peter Rogers
Director: Gerald Thomas
Charlie Hawkins has his work cut out training his new drivers
Flo (Esma Cannon) is prevented from earning a few extra pennies by Allbright (Norman Chappell)
Charlie Hawkins is the proud owner of Speedee Taxis, dedicating so much time to his work that his relationship with his wife, Peggy, who feels neglected and unloved, suffers. The final straw comes when Charlie, who’d forgotten their wedding anniversary until reminded by his wife, fails to arrive home in time to take her out for a meal. A last-minute cabbing job had turned into a nightmare, ferrying an expectant woman and her husband back and forth to the hospital.
Feeling increasingly depressed, coupled with the knowledge that her dream of starting a family and settling into a quiet country-cottage lifestyle seems increasingly remote, Peggy decides it’s time for revenge. Speedee Taxis have been unhindered by competition in the district since the company was established, so she forms a rival taxi firm and gives her uncaring husband a run for his money. After buying a fleet of new Ford Cortinas and employing a team of leggy lovelies to drive them, Glamcabs opens for business, without Charlie knowing that the driving force behind his competitor is none other than his own wife. Before long, the company is the most popular taxi firm in town, hitting Charlie Hawkins where it hurts the most – in his pocket. Customers, particularly men, opt for Glamcabs every time: new motors and attractive drivers have much more pulling power than crusty old men driving antiquated wrecks.
Charlie reaches for the bottle as business hits rock bottom; attempts to sabotage his rival’s vehicles and to pinch their business by intercepting their radio messages fail. Unable to muster any more ideas to see off Glamcabs, Charlie realises there is no option but to reluctantly meet Mrs Glam and discuss a merger, but nothing prepares him for the shock when he discovers that Mrs Glam is none other than his wife.
It looks as if irreparable damage has been done to the Hawkins’s marriage, but when Peggy and her closest friend, Sally, run into trouble, it’s Charlie who comes to the rescue. While the girls are heading for the bank with their takings, two crooks jump in their Glamcab and force them at gunpoint to drive out of town; with their lives in peril, Charlie coordinates a bold rescue using his fleet of taxis. After eventually catching the criminals and freeing his beloved, Charlie receives further good news when he hears he’s going to be a father.
Flo (Esma Cannon) and Peggy (Hattie Jacques) consult (Cabby)
His screen work was also combined with a fruitful career as a hotelier, restaurateur and club owner. He retired eleven years before his death in 2002, aged eighty-one.
CAMPLING, DAVID
Dubbing Editor on Doctor
Working in films as a sound editor from the mid-1960s, David Campling’s credits include films such as The Magnificent Two, To Catch A Spy, The Terminator, Platoon!, A Tiger’s Tale, The Bounty Hunter, Thieves of Fortune, Flamingo Dreams and Wild Turkey.
His television work covers programmes such as Knot’s Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac, a mini-series revisiting the successful American show, and many films specially for the genre.
CANNON, ESMA
Roles: Deaf Old Lady in Constable; Miss Cooling in Regardless, Bridget Madderley in Cruising and Flo Sims in Cabby
Born in Sydney, Australia, in 1896, the diminutive Esma Cannon, who was adept at playing twitchy, nervous, forgetful spinsters and maids, travelled to England in the early 1930s to pursue an acting career.
Beginning in theatre, she entered films in the late 1930s with productions such as The £5 Man, The Last Adventurers and Ladies in Love. She took a seven-year break from acting, due to a shortage of suitable parts on offer, and worked in stage management.
In just under three decades she clocked up over sixty films, including Contraband, Quiet Wedding, Asking for Trouble, A Canterbury Tale, Jassy, Here Come the Huggetts, Out of the Clouds, Nurse On Wheels and her last film, in 1963, Hide and Seek. She appeared infrequently on the small screen, her most notable role being Lily in the 1960s comedy, The Rag Trade.
She died in 1972, aged seventy-six.
CAPTAIN HOOK
The cheeky parrot is owned by the Bird Owner in Regardless.
CAPTAIN OF SOLDIERS
Played by Richard Shaw
Seen in Don’t Lose Your Head, the Captain is instructed by Citizen Camembert to guard Jacqueline night and day.
CAR SALESMAN
Played by Peter Jesson
The salesman at Peacocks of Balham sells fifteen Ford Cortinas to Peggy Hawkins when she launches the Glamcab taxi business.
CARDEW, JANE
Role: Henry’s 2nd Wife in Henry (Note: scene was cut.)
Born in Redhill, Surrey, in 1944, Jane Cardew left school and headed for Paris to study French at college before returning to England in 1966 and starting a career in the theatre, initially as an acting assistant stage manager at Hornchurch Rep. She completed summer seasons and worked as stage manager at Chichester Festival Theatre and three years at the Greenwich Theatre. Later, she worked as stage manager for various opera companies.
During her twenties she accepted modelling assignments between acting jobs, and later in her career television and film roles came her way including episodes of Jason King and The Bill.
She retired from acting in 1983 to look after her children but now works as a freelance proof reader and copy editor.
CARGILL, PATRICK
Roles: Raffish Customer in Regardless and Spanish Governor in Jack. Also, the script for Nurse was based on an idea submitted by Cargill and Jack Beale
Born in London in 1918, Patrick Cargill trained at Sandhurst for a military career and went to India to work as an officer in the Indian Army before returning to England to pursue an acting career.
During World War Two he travelled again to India, this time as an entertainments officer after which, back in Britain, he acted in repertory theatre and wrote plays and scripts, staging comedies including Time On Their Hands and Ring for Catty in the mid-1950s.
In the 1960s, Patrick moved into roles in television and film, with parts in television programmes Top Secret, The Avengers, The Prisoner and The Georges Feydeau Farces and then his own comedy show Father, Dear Father which ran for six years and was followed by another successful show The Many Wives of Patrick.
His film credits included Around the World in Eighty Days, Up the Creek, the Beatles’ film Help, A Countess from Hong Kong, Up Pompeii and Barnet.
During the 1980s and ’90s, Cargill, who still acted occasionally in the West End alongside his screen work, returned to the stage wholeheartedly, performing in productions such as Key For Two, HMS Pinafore and Captain Beaky and writing and touring with the play Don’t Misunderstand Me.
He died in 1996, aged seventy-seven.
CARLIN, JOHN
Roles: Officer in England and French Parson in Emmannuelle
TV: The Baron Outlook, Orgy and Bess, One in the Eye for Harold, The Nine Old Cobblers, The Case of the Screaming Winkles and Lamp Posts of the Empire
John Carlin, now retired, worked in television and films from the 1950s, appearing in shows such as Dixon of Dock Green, The Troubleshooters, Hadleigh and Nanny. He had semi-regular roles as the barman in Man About the House, the House of Commons Speaker in The New Statesman and Reverend Spink in The Darling Buds of May. His film work includes the 1977 production, Holocaust 2000.
The Spanish Governor (Patrick Cargill) has his hands full (Jack)
CAROL
Played by Sherrie Hewson
In Behind she arrives at the Riverside Caravan Site by bike with her friend, Sandra. They hoped to camp at the site but are disappointed to find only caravans are allowed, that is until Sandra shows a bit of leg to the owner, Major Leep, and suggests she might need a massage later to aid her aching leg; the sight of flesh sees the Major bending the rules to accommodate the girls. Others who take a fancy to the girls include Fred and Ernie, two middle-aged men enjoying a short break away from their wives, but the girls are more interested in the students from the University of Kidburn who are helping Professor Crump with his archaeological dig.
CARON, SANDRA
Role: Fanny in Camping
Sister of popular British singer Alma Cogan, actress Sandra Caron has worked both sides of the Atlantic during a career which began on stage. She entered television in the 1950s and appeared in various programmes, including Dixon of Dock Green and Suspense. In the ’70s she was seen in America working on shows such as Charlie’s Angels and The Odd Couple, but her longest-running role saw her playing Mumsie/Auntie Sabrina for three years in Channel 4’s The Crystal Maze. One of her more recent jobs was playing a farmer’s wife in the 1992 TV movie, To Be the Best.
Her film career, which started in the late 1950s, includes credits such as Sea Wife; The Leather Boys; The Bliss of Mrs Blossom; Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World and The Dicktator.
CARRIER
Played by Jim Dale
In Jack, the Carrier takes Midshipman Poop-Decker to the docks in Plymouth; he also recommends visiting Dirty Dick’s if Poop-Decker is in need of entertainment.
CARROLL, EDWINA
Role: Nerda in Up the Jungle
Edwina Carroll entered films and television in the 1950s. Her TV work includes appearances in White Hunter, The Troubleshooters, Department S, Paul Temple and UFO. On the big screen, she’s been seen in films such as A Town Like Alice, Yesterday’s Enemy, Genghis Khan and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
CARRYOONS, THE
In production at the time of writing, the idea behind the Carryoons was conceived in 1999 when Ken Burns approached Peter Rogers with an idea to produce twenty-six half-hour cartoons based around the legendary characters in the films. With Rogers’ backing, Burns – who’d edited ITV’s documentary, What’s A Carry On?, celebrating forty years of the film canon – began working on a pilot episode. Although the idea wasn’t to remake the films, it was agreed to kick-off by basing the pilot around a familiar premise – Camping.
Once the pilot, titled Carryoon Camping, was complete, it was taken to the MIP COM 2001, Europe’s biggest TV market, in Cannes to try and attract interest from within the industry. Although, as yet, the pilot has yet to be transmitted, further episodes in the series are currently being made.
CARSON, MR
The unseen headmaster at Maudlin Street Secondary Modern School. While he’s absent from the school, his deputy, Mr Wakefield, steps into the breach. His name is mentioned in Teacher.
CARSTAIRS
Played by Jim Dale
In Spying, Carstairs is the Vienna-based agent who sends a coded message to the Director of Security Operations explaining that Milchmann, a wanted man since blowing up Professor Stark and stealing a secret formula, has arrived in the city. Carstairs later follows him to Algiers but attempts to retrieve the formula are foiled by the bumbling Simkins and his team.
CARRY ON CAMPING
Alternative title … Let Sleeping Bags Lie
A Peter Rogers production
Distributed through Rank Organisation
Released as an A certificate in 1969 in colour
Running time: 88 mins
CAST
| Sidney James | Sid Boggle |
| Kenneth Williams | Dr Kenneth Soaper |
| Joan Sims | Joan Fussey |
| Charles Hawtrey | Charlie Muggins |
| Terry Scott | Peter Potter |
| Barbara Windsor | Babs |
| Bernard Bresslaw | Bernie Lugg |
| Hattie Jacques | Miss Haggerd |
| Peter Butterworth | Josh Fiddler |
| Julian Holloway | Jim Tanner |
| Dilys Laye | Anthea Meeks |
| Betty Marsden | Harriet Potter |
| Trisha Noble | Sally |
| Amelia Bayntun | Mrs Fussey |
| Brian Oulton | Store Manager |
| Patricia Franklin | Farmer’s Daughter |
| Derek Francis | Farmer |
| Michael Nightingale | Man in Cinema |
| Sandra Caron | Fanny |
| George Moon | Scrawny Man |
| Valerie Shute | Pat |
| Elizabeth Knight | Jane |
| Georgina Moon | Joy |
| Vivien Lloyd | Verna |
| Jennifer Pyle | Hilda |
| Lesley Duff | Norma |
| Jackie Poole | Betty |
| Anna Karen | Hefty Girl |
| Sally Kemp | Girl with Cow |
| Valerie Leon | Store Assistant |
| Peter Cockburn | Commentator |
| Gilly Grant | Sally G-String |
| Michael Low | |
| Mike Lucas | Lusty Youths |
PRODUCTION TEAM
Screenplay by Talbot Rothwell
Music composed and conducted by Eric Rogers
Production Manager: Jack Swinburne
Art Director: Lionel Couch
Editor: Alfred Roome
Director of Photography: Ernest Steward BSC
Assistant Editor: Jack Gardner
Camera Operator: James Bawden
Assistant Director: Jack Causey
Continuity: Doreen Dernley
Sound Recordists: Bill Daniels and Ken Barker
Make-up: Geoffrey Rodway
Hairdresser: Stella Rivers
Costume Designer: Yvonne Caffin
Dubbing Editor: Colin Miller
Title sketches by ‘Larry’
Producer: Peter Rogers
Director: Gerald Thomas
Charles Hawtrey on set with his mother
Sid Boggle and Bernie Lugg take their girlfriends, Joan and Anthea, to the cinema to watch a film about nudists at a holiday camp; the girls are not amused and find the film offensive but it doesn’t stop Sid and Bernie secretly planning to take them there on holiday.
They decide the best course of action is to remain tight-lipped about the destination chosen for the camping holiday, but by the time they arrive at the site in Devon, the girls have twigged where they’ve heard the name Paradise Camp and want to head home; but after driving for hours, Sid tells them they’re going in. He’s soon disappointed, though, when everyone is walking around fully-clothed and he realises he’s picked the wrong site.
Other campers at the site include the Potters, who arrive on their tandem for yet another stint in the muddy fields of Paradise, much to the reluctance of Peter, who’s not only fed up with camping but with his wife, too. Charlie Muggins, meanwhile, is an irritant who’s forever scrounging off fellow campers, while a coachload of girls from Chayste Place, a finishing school, bring smiles to the faces of Sid Boggins and Bernie Lugg, who feel they’re not making much progress with their girlfriends. They begin flirting with Babs and Fanny, but attempts to lure them into their tents are continually scuppered.
Meanwhile, Peter Potter becomes a changed man. After turning to the bottle through sheer frustration with life, a chance encounter sees him invited to the tent of the promiscuous Jane, one of the schoolgirls; the experience works wonders and he asserts himself on his domineering wife; after throwing Charlie Muggins out of the tent, which he’s been sharing since arriving at the camp site, he drags his wife inside for a bit of nooky.
Kenneth Williams was a crucial part of the Carry Ons
Sid (Sid James) and Jim (Julian Holloway) don hippy gear and wreak havoc with the electrics
Over in Sid and Bernie’s tent, they’re waiting for Babs and Fanny to arrive, but when loud music is heard in the adjoining field, they rush to investigate and find the girls enjoying themselves at an all-nite rave. Eventually the campers drive the hippies away, but the girls go, too. Sid and Bernie, however, realise they don’t need Babs and Fanny when they’ve got Joan and Anthea, but first they have to deal with the arrival of Mrs Fussey, who’s worried about her daughter’s well-being.
CARSTAIRS, MAJOR
Played by Peter Butterworth
Accompanies the Brigadier when he visits the experimental 1313 anti-aircraft battery to see how Captain Melly, who’s recently taken charge of the base in England, is surviving.
CARTER, CYRIL
Played by Kenneth Cope
Cyril, who’s seen in Matron, was only six when his mother, Gertie, died. He promised her he’d follow in his father’s footsteps by becoming a small-time crook, but later claims he hardly knew what he wanted from life at that stage because he was only a kid. When offered a job in insurance, he seriously considers accepting until his father makes him feel guilty about breaking the promise made to his mother.
When his father believes he can earn a packet selling the Pill abroad, Cyril reluctantly agrees to don a nurse’s outfit and pretend to be a student at the Finisham Maternity Hospital in order to find plans of the building. Whilst there, he rooms with Susan Ball, a nurse who eventually realises what he’s up to. When the plan fails, he decides to settle down with Susan and quit his life of crime.
CARTER, GERTIE
Gertie died when her son, Cyril, was just six. Her name is mentioned by Sid, her husband, in Matron when he’s trying to persuade Cyril to help with a job involving stealing pills from Finisham Maternity Hospital.
CARTER, PRIVATE
Played by Barbara Hampshire
Based at the experimental 1313 anti-aircraft battery featured in England, she’s one of the shirkers who suffers a severe shock to the system when the tough-speaking Captain Melly is placed in charge of the unit.
CARTER, SID
Played by Sidney James
Leader of a small group of criminals who decides to steal contraceptive pills from Finisham Maternity Hospital and sell them overseas. Sid, who’s seen in Matron, has been a widower since the death of his wife, Gertie. Their son, Cyril, is a reluctant member of Sid’s gang.
CARVER, DR FREDERICK
Played by Kenneth Williams
A top surgeon in Again Doctor who’s employed at the Long Hampton Hospital. Rather haughty, he longs for a private clinic of his own and dreams of one day running the Frederick Carver Foundation, where he can milk his rich private patients of all their money. He deviously turns his attention to Ellen Moore, a lonely widow who’s swimming in money, to finance his dream; the trouble is, she’s looking for more than just a business partnership. Inexperienced in matters of courtship, Carver turns to the sex-mad Dr Nookey for help with some chat-up lines ready for the hospital’s grand buffet and dance, but the evening is anything but a success for Carver in his pursuit of Moore’s purse.
To satisfy Mrs Moore, Carver finds an ideal candidate – Dr Nookey – to take up the post of doctor at her medical mission in the distant Beatific Islands, but when Gladstone Screwer, the mission orderly, later reports that Nookey is failing in his duty, Carver placates Ellen by agreeing to visit the islands and establish what’s going on; in doing so, he nearly loses his life when the schooner, Bella Vista, founders off the islands during a torrential storm. By the time he returns home, life has moved on and Mrs Moore is in partnership with none other than Dr Nookey, who’s rolling in dosh since returning from the Beatific Islands with a cure for obesity, earning him millions.
At first jealous, Carver dreams up an idea, utilising his colleague Dr Stoppidge in disguise as a woman, to unearth the actual ingredients of the serum used by Nookey at his clinic. His plans backfire big-time but it’s not long before he’s a partner in the Moore-Nookey-Gladstone-Carver Clinic offering not just a miracle cure for obesity but sex change treatment, too.
CASLEY, ALAN
Role: Kindly Seaman in Cruising
Alan Casley’s other screen credits saw him play a barman in a 1962 episode of The Avengers.
CASTLE, FLO
Played by Dilys Laye
A passenger on the Happy Wanderer in Cruising. She’s on the cruise with her friend, Glad Trimble, and is hoping, with her mate’s help, to net a husband. She hopes it will be the ship’s PT instructor, Mr Jenkins, but knows that is wishful thinking. Eventually she falls in love with the vessel’s doctor, Arthur Binn.
CASTLE, ROY
Role: Captain Keene in Up The Khyber
The multi-talented Roy Castle, son of an insurance agent, was born in Scholes, West Yorkshire, in 1932. He harboured dreams of playing cricket for Yorkshire, but gave them up for a career in entertainment, initially learning to dance and play instruments.
After completing national service in the RAF, he tried his luck as an entertainer, joining a musical troupe of clowns. He moved on to work with Jimmy Clitheroe and Jimmy James, both popular performers from the era, before going it alone and entertaining at music halls, primarily on the northern club circuit.
By the 1960s, Castle was regarded as one of the nation’s top all-round entertainers. He also did occasional acting, appearing on Broadway in Pickwick and, later, at the Palladium in Singing in the Rain. On the big screen he was seen in, among others, Dr Who and the Daleks and Dr Terror’s House of Horrors, while on television his credits included The Roy Castle Show and Record Breakers.
In 1992 he was diagnosed with lung cancer, despite never having smoked. He died in 1994, aged sixty-two.
CAUSEY, JACK
Assistant Director on Regardless, Cruising, Don’t Lose Your Head, Camping, Up the Jungle, Girls and England
Jack Causey began working as an assistant director in the 1950s on films such as Innocents in Paris, The Captain’s Paradise, Third Party Risk, Conflict of Wings, The Baby and the Battleship, The Silent Enemy, Sink the Bismarck!, Sands of the Kalahari, At the Earth’s Core and his final film, 1976’s The Slipper and the Rose. As a production manager he was assigned to, among others, The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins, For the Love of Ada and the big screen version of Doomwatch.
CAUSEY, J.
The unseen Third Officer on the Happy Wanderer in Cruising. His name is seen on the crew list and is obviously a reference to the film’s assistant director.
CAVEMAN
Played by Michael Nightingale
Seen in Cleo warning other cavemen, including Horsa and Hengist who are chatting outside their caves, that the Romans are coming.
CECIL, THE JUNGLE BOY
Played by Terry Scott
Seen in Up the Jungle, Cecil spends his formative years living in the jungle, just like Tarzan. Soon after he was born, his father took his wife on a belated honeymoon to the African jungle. Tragedy struck when Walter Bagley took Cecil for an early morning walk along the banks of the Limpopo River and neither were seen again. When her husband’s fob watch was discovered inside a crocodile’s stomach, and an abandoned nappy found on the riverbank, Mrs Bagley feared the worst.
Years later, desperate to find her baby’s missing nappy pin as something to remember him by, she returns to the jungle; what she doesn’t realise is that Cecil is alive, and although he can only grunt, he’s fit and healthy. When the Jungle Boy happens to enter her tent one night, Lady Bagley discovers he has a big, silver safety pin holding his loincloth together; suddenly realising it’s her long-lost boy, she’s desperate to bring him home, and after various ordeals manages to achieve her goal. The trouble is, he’s unable to rid himself of his jungle habits: although he’s a quick learner and soon holding down a respectable job in the City, he never wears shoes or socks and prefers living in a treehouse in London with his wife, June, formerly Lady Bagley’s maid, and their new-born child.
CHAMBERLAIN, CYRIL
Roles: Gun Sergeant in Sergeant, Bert Able in Nurse, Alf in Teacher, Thurston in Constable, Policeman in Regardless, Tom Tree in Cruising and Sarge in Cabby
A veteran of stage and screen, Cyril Chamberlain was born in London in 1909 and became a busy character actor for over four decades.
Often cast in small parts, he always made full use of his screen time, acting with a presence befitting much larger roles. Frequently seen playing policemen or middle-ranked soldiers, he entered films in the late 1930s, notching up over a hundred credits, including A Stolen Life, Poison Pen, My Brother’s Keeper, London Belongs to Me, Once a Jolly Swagman, Quartet, Stop Press Girl, Lady Godiva Rides Again, Above Us the Waves and Operation Bullshine. He also appeared in several Norman Wisdom and St Trinian’s films.
He occasionally worked on television in such productions as Stryker of the Yard, Ivanhoe, William Tell, The Saint and Danger Man.
He died in 1974, aged sixty-five.
Cyril Chamberlain (far left) was a reliable character actor of stage and screen (Constable)
CHAPLAIN
Played by Peter Jones
Seen in Doctor. Sporting a hearing aid, he conducts the wedding ceremony for Francis Bigger and the equally deaf Chloe Gibson, which makes for a frustrating affair.
CHAPPELL, NORMAN
Roles: Allbright in Cabby and 1st Plotter in Henry. (Note: also cast as Mr Thrush in Loving but scene cut.)
TV: Orgy and Bess; One in the Eye for Harold; The Case of the Screaming Winkles; The Case of the Coughing Parrot; Under the Round Table; Short Knight, Long Daze and Lamp Posts of the Empire
Norman Chappell, who was born in the Indian city of Lucknow, arrived in the UK aged four. Son of a professional soldier, he broke with tradition and pursued a theatrical career, but not before serving for a time with the RAF, and holding down various jobs, including cook in a police canteen.
His first taste of acting was during his RAF days; upon deciding it was the career for him, he enrolled at the Italia Conti Stage School. Circumstances, however, forced him to leave prematurely, but it never affected his progress in the profession, which saw him work in all media.
On television he was seen playing several characters in The Avengers, and appeared in Bless This House, Mr Aitch, Mr Digby Darling, Whoops Baghdad!, Sez Les, Danger UXB and Doctor’s Daughters, while on the big screen he popped up in several films during the 1960s and ’70s, such as Jigsaw, Crooks in Cloisters, How I Won the War, Up the Creek, Nearest and Dearest, Love Thy Neighbour, The Four Musketeers and Intimate Games.
He died of a heart attack in 1983.
CHARLES (EARL OF BRISTOL)
Played by Peter Butterworth
The Earl of Bristol has been ambassador at the Spanish court for some time before returning with his two attractive daughters, one of whom is blonde Bettina. He’s seen briefly in Henry arriving with his girls at Henry VIII’s do.
CHARLIE
Played by Percy Herbert
A barman at Belle’s Place, he remains in the job when Johnny Finger arrives in Stodge City and starts throwing his weight around, including taking over the hotel-cum-bar and renaming it Rumpo’s Place. He soon becomes Rumpo’s sidekick but ends up being shot accidentally by Annie Oakley. Seen in Cowboy.
CHARLIE PLATOON
Sergeant O’Brien’s platoon at Heathercrest National Service Depot in Sergeant.
CHAUFFEUR
Played by Frank Forsyth
This miserable-looking chauffeur is seen in Cabby waiting at a junction. Charlie Hawkins turns up in his cab, spots the sour-faced driver and asks him where the funeral is.
CHAYSTE PLACE
A finishing school, set in a sumptuous building, for young ladies. Seen in Camping, its principal is Dr Kenneth Soaper while the headmistress is Miss Haggerd.
CHEF
Played by Leon Greene
A monster of a man, the chef works at the Brighton hotel where the employees of W. C. Boggs and Son, out on their annual jolly, were intending to eat lunch. A strike, though, puts paid to their plans, infuriating, ironically, Vic Spanner, one of the most troublesome shop stewards around. He confronts the chef, who towers over him, and soon wishes he hadn’t.
CHERRILL, ROGER
Sound Editor on Nurse
Roger Cherrill entered films in the early 1940s, working as a production runner on 1943’s The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. He was working as an assistant editor a year later on A Canterbury Tale and, from the 1950s, as a sound editor on films such as A Day to Remember, Always a Bride, Doctor at Sea, Lost, Tiger in the Smoke and Rooney. As an editor his credits include Make Mine Mink, In the Doghouse, A Kind of Loving, Billy Liar, The Naked Prey and the television series, Interpol Calling.
CHIEF, THE
Played by Eric Barker
The Director of Security Operations seen in Spying is alarmed to hear that Professor Stark has been murdered and a secret formula stolen. He assembles a team of agents and sends them off to retrieve the formula at all costs; the trouble is the team is made up of a bunch of incompetents.
CHIEF CONSTABLE
(Voice only)
Heard in Constable, the Chief Constable phones to congratulate Inspector Mills on catching thieves who recently snatched some wages in the district.
CHILDS, GUNNER
Played by Billy J. Mitchell
Based at the experimental 1313 anti-aircraft battery featured in England, he’s one of the shirkers who suffers a severe shock to the system when the tough-speaking Captain Melly is put in charge of the unit.
CHINDI
Played by Michael Mellinger
Seen during the famous dinner-party scene in Up The Khyber, Chindi works for Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond, the British governor in the northwest province of India.
CHINESE LADY
Played by Madame Yang
In Regardless, the Chinese Lady hired an interpreter from Helping Hands but a mix-up finds Sam Twist calling instead of Francis Courtenay.
CHIPPING SODBURY LADIES’ GUILD
The Guild presented drainage, sanitation and garbage disposal engineer, Marshall Knutt, with a sink plunger in recognition of services rendered in Cowboy. He carries it with him when he visits the Bureau of Internal Affairs looking for a job, but probably wishes he hadn’t when it sticks so hard to a clerk’s desk that Knutt ends up tearing the tabletop off trying to release it.
CHIPPING SODBURY TECHNICAL COLLEGE
The college from which Marshall P. Knutt graduated as a drainage, sanitation and garbage disposal engineer. Mentioned in Cowboy.
CHRYSTAL, BIDDY
Hairdresser on Regardless, Cruising, Cabby, and Spying
Biddy Chrystal, head of Pinewood’s hairdressing department for many years, began her film career in the 1940s and proceeded to work on a multitude of films, including Blanche Fury, London Belongs to Me, Prelude to Fame, The Browning Version, Lost and The Early Bird.
She turned freelance and worked through until the 1970s, latterly on productions such as Young Winston, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and, in 1974, 11 Harrowhouse. Eventually moved to America and died in 1995.
CHUMLEY, CLAUDE
Played by Kenneth Connor
Professor Tinkle’s assistant in Up the Jungle, Chumley follows the highly respected ornithologist on his expeditions, including recent visits to the Virgin Isles and, now, the jungles of Africa. While on the trip, he has to fight his unbridled passion for Lady Bagley, another member of the jungle expedition.
CHURCH ROAD
The street in Constable where the criminals involved in the wages snatch abandoned their car, registration RGT 547.
CHURCH, TONY
Wrote the screenplay for That’s Carry On
C I CARAVANS
The company which supplied the caravans used in Behind.
CIGARETTE GIRL
Played by Jill Mai Meredith
Employed at the Café Mozart in Vienna, the Cigarette Girl is seen in Spying, taking a secret message concerning a rendezvous, which is concealed in a cigarette, from the Fat Man to Milchmann. But a mix-up sees Simkins take the cigarette instead.
CITIZENS
Played by Tom Gill, Frank Forsyth, Anthony Sagar, Eric Corrie and John Antrobus
The group of men is seen in Constable, complaining in the police station about various issues.
CITY GENT ON TUBE
Played by Michael Nightingale
You have to feel sorry for this guy, who’s seen in Girls standing reading his paper on his way to work. He’s just minding his own business when Paula Perkins, standing next to him, notices a photo of her fiancé, Peter Potter, on the front of the paper, showing her beloved apparently cavorting with some of the beauty contestants down in Fircombe, an event he’s been asked to promote. Paula makes a comment and the rest of the commuters turn to the City Gent in disgust, thinking he’s guilty of something improper towards Paula.
CLARK, CAPTAIN
Played by Hattie Jacques
Seen in Sergeant, the doctor is based at Heathercrest National Service Depot. Her patience is severely tested by the arrival of Horace Strong, the world’s worst hypochondriac. When she can take no more, she refers him to a team of specialists who examine every inch of his body, and in doing so help him realise that he’s actually in love.
CLARKE, NURSE
Played by Anita Harris
In Doctor, Nurse Clarke is a member of Borough County Hospital’s efficient nursing staff, and just one of the many admirers of Dr Kilmore.
CLARKE, RONALD
Role: 6th Storeman in Sergeant
Ronald Clarke’s other appearances include several roles over the years in Dixon of Dock Green, Gazette and The Gold Robbers. His film credits range from The Battle of the River Plate and Hell Drivers to Up the Junction and The Mackintosh Man.
CLEANER
Played by an uncredited actor
Seen briefly in Regardless, the cleaner at Helping Hands knocks the job allocation cards onto the floor causing chaos when the assignments are dished out the following day.
CLEGG, TERRY
Location Manager on Follow That Camel and Assistant Director on Doctor
Sheffield-born Terry Clegg worked as location manager on A Clockwork Orange and The Mackintosh Man, while as assistant director he’s worked on television series like The Saint and, among others, the films Lucky Lady and Circle of Friends. As a production manager and executive in charge of production his list of credits include A Bridge Too Far, The Elephant Man, Gandhi, Shadowlands and Yaadein. More recently he worked as producer on such films as Cry Freedom, Gorillas in the Mist and Breathtaking.
CLEGG, TOM
Roles: Massive Micky McGee in Regardless, Doorman in Spying, Sosages in Cleo, Blacksmith in Cowboy, Odbodd in Screaming! and Trainer in Loving
A stuntman and bit-part actor, Tom Clegg’s other credits include jobs in television shows Quatermass II and The Sweeney, as well as films like The Fake, The Extra Day and Raising the Wind. He was employed as a stuntman on numerous productions, including the films Ivanhoe and Thunderball.
CLEO, CARRY ON
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CLEOPATRA
Played by Amanda Barrie
Ruler of Egypt, the Queen of the Nile bathes in milk all day, making many men’s hearts flutter, especially Mark Antony’s in Cleo. She plots with Antony to topple Caesar but it takes several attempts before they finally see the back of Caesar and the blossoming of their relationship.
CLEOPATRA
The donkey who’s led into the lounge of the Palace Hotel in Fircombe. Seen in Girls, the animal is used to promote the beauty contest being held in the town; Peter Potter, a friend of Sidney Fiddler, who’s tasked with organising publicity for the event plans to photograph the girls with the donkey, using the promotional line, ‘Beauty and the Beast’. The donkey does little to ingratiate himself with hotel owner Connie Philpotts when it excretes all over the floor.
CLERK
Played by Ian Wilson
In Cabby the Clerk works at Stevens and Son, a printing firm. He speaks to Charlie Hawkins when he enters the office wanting some leaflets printed.
CLERK
Played by Lionel Murton
In Cowboy the Clerk works on the reception desk at Washington and briefly interviews the drainage, sanitation and garbage engineer Marshall P. Knutt when he arrives on the scene job-hunting. He soon wishes he hadn’t set eyes on the accident-prone Mr Knutt, though, when Knutt gets his plunger stuck on the clerk’s desk and ends up ripping the wooden top off.
CLIFF
Played by Jack Taylor
In Constable, Cliff is one of the robbers involved in the wages snatch.
CLIFTON, PHILIP
Role: Injured Footballer in Emmannuelle
Other television work saw Philip Clifton appearing in an episode of the Australian series, Delta, in 1970.
CLIFTON, ZENA
Roles: Au Pair Girl in Matron and Susan Clifton in Girls
As well as acting, Zena Clifton made a living as a dancer on many of Britain’s top television shows, such as Sez Les and The Benny Hill Show.
CLIFFORD, PEGGY ANN
Role: Willa Claudia in Cleo
Born in Bournemouth in 1919, Peggy Ann Clifford worked in rep before establishing herself as a supporting actress, normally cast as a jolly character on film and television. She was particularly busy during the 1950s, and appeared in many films, including Kind Hearts and Coronets, Man of the Moment, Brothers in Law, Doctor at Large and Under Milk Wood.
On television she was seen in, among others, Hancock’s Half Hour, Fawlty Towers, Man About the House, Bless This House, Dawson’s Weekly, George and Mildred, Are You Being Served? and Hi-de-Hi!.
She once sold a block of flats in Fulham in order to buy a grocery shop in Chelsea, which she ran for three years while not acting. She died in 1984, aged sixty-five.
CLIVE
Played by Larry Dann
A student from the University of Kidburn’s archaeological department who helps Professor Crump at the dig. While staying at the Riverside Caravan Site in Behind, next-door to where they are digging, Clive and his mate get friendly with two campers, Carol and Sandra.
CLIVE, JOHN
Roles: Robin Tweet in Abroad and Isaak the Tailor in Dick. (Note: also cast as the Dandy in Henry but scene cut.)
Born in 1938, Londoner John Clive began acting in rep as a child, appearing in plays like The Winslow Boy and Life with Father. His break arrived while working as a pageboy at a theatre. Hearing about auditions for a children’s show, he submitted his name and was accepted as a boy singer, as well as assisting the resident comic in sketches.
His face has since become familiar from more than a hundred film and television performances. On the big screen he’s appeared as a car manager in The Italian Job, as well as Clockwork Orange, Great Expectations and Revenge of the Pink Panther. On television his credits include The Sweeney, Wear A Very Big Hat, How Green Was My Valley, The Government Inspector, The Saint, Man in a Suitcase, Casualty, Perils of Pendragon, and the lead (Professor Sommerby) in the children’s series, Robert’s Robots. He’s also appeared with most of the great comedy performers including Dick Emery, Tommy Cooper, John Cleese and Peter Sellers.
Today, most of Clive’s time is dedicated to writing screenplays and novels – he’s written six to date – although he still acts if the right part comes along. Now divides his time between homes in England and Spain.
MEMORIES
‘You did the Carry On films and enjoyed them for what they were, never thinking, of course, that they’d become enormously successful cult movies. It’s quite remarkable.
‘My first role was playing Robin in Abroad. There was one thing that David, whom I knew prior to filming, and I couldn’t understand. Kenneth Williams and Charles Hawtrey were both camping it up madly and we didn’t know why they wanted us to come in and do the same sort of thing. You know what actors are with everybody worried about their own positions and I didn’t want Kenneth or Charles to think we were seeking to take over their roles in the film – that was the last thing in our minds.
‘I liked Kenneth Williams enormously and thought he was a fabulously funny guy, so I was a little bit careful with him and waited to see how we’d get on, whether he was sharp with me but I’m glad to say he wasn’t. In fact, after he’d seen the rushes he came over personally to congratulate me, patting me on the shoulder and saying: “That was terrific, you two boys are going to be great in this.” Another time I was in make-up and Sid James said virtually the same thing.
‘Trying to create the Mediterranean in the freezing cold of Pinewood was difficult but you just had to put up with it, but I have to say that we were blue with the cold in those bathing costumes because there was a chill wind round the place that day. We had to have body make-up plastered all over us because everybody was freezing. When we filmed the scene involving the rainstorm, everyone got soaked. Luckily I wasn’t caught in it but poor old David was. It was good fun filming Abroad. It was one-take and on to the next.
‘Carry On Dick was only a small part and, if I remember right, just one day’s filming. It was always good fun and easy comedy. I want to pay compliment to the regulars. The only reason anyone talks to anyone else about the Carry On films is because of the regulars, not the script, directing or the producing. They were superb comedy actors of their generations and knew exactly where to go, how far to go and when not to cross that line from pun and innuendo into crude comedy.’
JOHN CLIVE
CLOAKROOM ATTENDANT
Played by Elsie Winsor
In Girls the Cloakroom Attendant works at the Pier Theatre and reminds Sidney Fiddler that he’s in the ladies’ toilets when he’s caught kissing Hope Springs just before she takes part in the Miss Fircombe beauty contest.
CLOAKROOM GIRL
Played by Angela Ellison
The Cloakroom Girl takes Simkins’s hat, coat and false beard when he arrives at the Café Mozart in Spying.
CLOTSKI, CORPORAL
Played by John Bluthal
A corporal in the Foreign Legion, he reports to Sergeant Nocker in Follow That Camel.
CLUB RECEPTIONIST
Played by George Street
Works at the Philosophers’ Club and is seen in Regardless. Speaks to Sam Twist when he arrives to replace Old Lou, who’s ill. Doesn’t believe Twist will be up to the job and is proved right when he has to escort him off the premises because he can’t refrain from laughing at some of the geriatrics at the club.
CARRY ON CLEO
An Anglo Amalgamated film
A Peter Rogers production
Distributed through Warner-Pathe Distribution Ltd
Released as an A certificate in 1964 in colour
Running time: 92 mins
CAST
| Sidney James | Mark Antony |
| Kenneth Williams | Julius Caesar |
| Charles Hawtrey | Seneca |
| Kenneth Connor | Hengist Pod |
| Joan Sims | Calpurnia |
| Jim Dale | Horsa |
| Amanda Barrie | Cleopatra |
| Victor Maddern | Sergeant Major |
| Julie Stevens | Gloria |
| Sheila Hancock | Senna Pod |
| Jon Pertwee | Soothsayer |
| Brian Oulton | Brutus |
| Michael Ward | Archimedes |
| Francis de Wolff | Agrippa |
| Tom Clegg | Sosages |
| Tanya Binning | Virginia |
| David Davenport | Bilius |
| Peter Gilmore | Galley Master |
| Ian Wilson | Messenger |
| Norman Mitchell | Heckler |
| Brian Rawlinson | Hessian Driver |
| Gertan Klauber | Marcus |
| Warren Mitchell | Spencius |
| Peter Jesson | Companion |
| Michael Nightingale | Caveman |
| Judi Johnson | Gloria’s Bridesmaid |
| Thelma Taylor | Seneca’s Servant |
| Sally Douglas | Antony’s Dusky Maiden |
| Wanda Ventham | Pretty Bidder |
| Peggy Ann Clifford | Willa Claudia |
| Mark Hardy | Guard at Caesar’s Palace |
| E.V.H. Emmett | Narrator |
| Christine Rodgers | |
| Gloria Best | |
| Virginia Tyler | Hand Maidens |
| Gloria Johnson | |
| Joanna Ford | |
| Donna White | |
| Jane Lumb | |
| Vicki Smith | Vestal Virgins |
(Uncredited ‘Companions’: Stuart Monro, Forbes Douglas, Billy Cornelius, Peter Fraser, Frederick Beauman and Keith Buckley.)
PRODUCTION TEAM
Screenplay by Talbot Rothwell
Music composed and conducted by Eric Rogers
Associate Producer: Frank Bevis
Art Director: Bert Davey
Director of Photography: Alan Hume
Editor: Archie Ludski
Camera Operator: Godfrey Godar
Assistant Director: Peter Bolton
Unit Manager: Donald Toms
Continuity: Olga Brook
Make-up: Geoffrey Rodway
Sound Editor: Christopher Lancaster
Sound Recordists: Bill Daniels and Gordon K. McCallum
Hairdressing: Ann Fordyce
Costume Designer: Julie Harris
Producer: Peter Rogers
Director: Gerald Thomas
Caesar (Kenneth Williams) looks to the heavens for inspiration
Amanda Barrie in fine form as Cleo
Hengist Pod’s simple life as a wheelmaker specialising in making square wheels is forever changed when the Romans arrive and ransack his village. While his new neighbour, Horsa, stays with the rest of the villagers to try and fight off the Romans, Hengist jumps on his square-wheeled contraption and heads off to seek help. He hasn’t gone far before his fragile vehicle collapses and he ends up thumbing a lift; when he gratefully accepts a ride in a wagon, he jumps in the back only to find he’s in the company of his fellow cavemen, including Horsa, who’ve been taken prisoner by the Romans.
As they head for Rome, Julius Caesar is anxious to leave the damp British climate behind for sunnier skies back home; when a message arrives warning that Brutus might be planning to take over the throne in his absence, he rushes back to be met by a less than rapturous welcome.
Caesar has become so unpopular that even his father-in-law, Seneca, is having premonitions about his impending doom. Caesar consults the Vestal Virgins but as he enters the Temple of Vesta, Bilius, his personal bodyguard, takes out his sword with the intention of slaying his leader. Unbeknown to Caesar, Horsa and Hengist Pod have escaped from the slave market and are hiding with the Vestal Virgins, and a mix-up leaves numerous Roman soldiers dead and Hengist hailed as the hero by Caesar who, believing he saved his life, makes him a centurion and personal bodyguard.
Treachery is rife. When Mark Antony is sent by Caesar to see Cleopatra, the Queen of the Nile, he succumbs to her charm and beauty; when Cleopatra mentions how good they could be together if Mark Anthony was emperor of Rome, he plans to topple Caesar. Upon returning to Rome, he tells the Roman leader that Cleopatra wants to meet him, although the plan is for Caesar to be killed en route. The Roman soldiers on the ship who intend murdering Caesar are all killed by the galley slaves who manage to escape; Caesar, however, doesn’t know this and, thinking the soldiers are out to get him, pushes Hengist out to deal with the rebels. A quivering wreck, Hengist soon perks up when he finds the soldiers already dead, so pretends to have killed them himself, thereby gaining even more respect from his new boss.
When Mark Antony’s plans to kill Caesar at sea are thwarted, he hatches another one with Cleopatra inviting him to her bedchamber. But when he’s told of a premonition depicting his death, Caesar decides against going and sends Hengist Pod instead. When he climbs on the bed with Cleopatra it collapses on top of Mark Antony, who was waiting underneath to kill Caesar. Before long, Horsa and the other galley slaves, who’ve entered the palace in search of food, come to Hengist’s rescue again.
Despite surviving all the failed murder attempts, it isn’t long before Caesar bites the dust, leaving Mark Antony free to team up with Cleopatra, Horsa to marry his long-lost love, Gloria, and Hengist to become a new man and father plenty of kids.
CLULOW, JENNIFER
Role: 1st Lady in Don’t Lose Your Head
Born in Grimsby, Humberside, in 1942, Jennifer Clulow trained at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama before beginning her career on a world tour of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s King Lear and Comedy of Errors. Further West End work followed including a leading role in the musical 4000 Brass Halfpennies, as well as repertory work.
She began appearing on screen from the mid-1960s. She presented the children’s series, Disney Wonderland, a cookery series for ATV and read the news for Westward Television. When TVS opened its doors, Clulow – who played Catherine in the famous Cointreau adverts – worked as an announcer.
Other television credits include The Baron, The Avengers, Department S, Lovejoy, Bergerac and, in 1993, Keeping Up Appearances. For two years she played Claire Clarkson in The Troubleshooters and Jessica Dalton in Granada’s series, Mr Rose.
COACH AND HORSES, THE
A pub mentioned by WPC Passworthy in Constable. It’s where she arrested the infamous Mrs May for smashing a bottle over a barman’s head just because he asked her to leave.
COACH DRIVER
Played by Barrie Gosney
Seen sitting on top of a stagecoach in Jack, this cheeky chappie tells Albert Poop-Decker to hurry up when he’s alighting from the coach at Plymouth.
COBLEY
Played by Richard Wattis
This bespectacled official reports to the Director of Security Operations in Spying.
COBURN, BRIAN
Roles: Trapper in Cowboy and Highwayman in Dick
Born in Scotland in 1936, Brian Coburn’s hefty frame meant he was instantly recognisable on stage and screen. He worked throughout the world during his career and clocked up over 200 television appearances, his favourite show being BBC’s God’s Wonderful Railway, in which he played the lead.
A steady supply of theatrical and film work came his way: among his credits on the big screen were Octopussy, Trenchcoat, Trial by Combat, Love and Death and Fiddler On the Roof.
Coburn was returning to the Royal Shakespeare Company when illness caused him to cancel the engagement. He died in 1989, aged fifty-three, from a diabetic-related illness.
COCCIUM-IN-CORNOVII
Hengist’s and Horsa’s home town in Cleo.
COCKBURN, PETER
Role: Commentator in Camping
He was also seen as a commentator in 1971 episodes of Paul Temple and On the Buses, while his voice was heard on Marillion’s 1983 album, Script for a Jester’s Tear.
Marian Collins played a bride in two Carry Ons (Cabby)
COCK INN
The inn is mentioned by James Bedsop, the ineffective private investigator hired by Sophie Bliss to spy on Sidney, who, she feels, is seeing women behind her back. In Loving, Sidney was spotted in the establishment’s saloon bar by Bedsop who then followed him back to his office.
CODE CLERK
Played by Gertan Klauber
Seen in Spying the Code Clerk brings a message to the Director of Security Operations (alias The Chief). It’s from Carstairs, the Vienna-based agent, reporting the arrival of Milchmann, a wanted criminal. The Chief questions the validity of appointing foreign subjects in the decoding department.
COE, CAPTAIN
This captain’s epic journey is mentioned by Captain Fearless in Jack. In an open boat, six sailors set out and were at sea for seventy-three days. Only three reached home shores, having survived by eating the three comrades that didn’t make it. Fearless refers to the event when, together with some of his crew, he’s hopelessly lost in a rowing boat, miles from anywhere. The captain isn’t seen in the film.
COLE, PAUL
Role: Atkins in Teacher
As a child actor, Paul Cole appeared in a handful of productions between 1959 and ’63, including, on television, The Four Just Men and The Pursuers, as well as the films Dracula, Next To No Time, Please Turn Over and The Mouse on the Moon.
COLETTE
Played by Suzanna East
Seen in Richmond’s flashback sequence in Emmannuelle in which he describes his most amorous experience. Colette is the niece of the French parson who takes pity on Richmond and provides him with shelter when a German soldier chases him. Colette, though, is the reason Richmond didn’t return to England until eight years after the war ended.
COLIN, SID
Co-wrote the screenplay for Spying
TV: Co-wrote Christmas (70)
Born in London in 1915, screenwriter Sid Colin specialised in comedy for screen and radio, but upon leaving school pursued a musical career. He taught himself the banjo and joined a touring group, playing and singing around the country.
During the war, he served six years in The Squadronnaires, the RAF’s dance orchestra, playing guitar and writing shows, during which time he met Denis Norden and Frank Muir with whom he’d later work on numerous occasions.
After the war, he quit touring and began concentrating on his writing career, but not before he tried making a living as an artist. Colin painted, drew and sculpted all his life and eventually found work designing covers for sheet music. But his future lay in scriptwriting and he soon began writing for radio, film and, later, television.
Among his writing credits for radio are Life With the Lyons, while on television his output includes the series How Do You View?, Before Your Very Eyes, The Army Game and Love Thy Neighbour. His film work included One Good Turn, I Only Arsked!, and the Frankie Howerd films Up the Chastity Belt, Up Pompeii and Up the Front. One of his last screenplays was 1982’s The Boys in Blue. Also a lyricist, he penned songs for films such as Up the Front and Bottoms Up.
He died in 1989, aged seventy-four.
COLLEANO, GARRY
Role: Slim in Cowboy
Other screen credits include a 1960 episode of International Detective and the 1961 film Follow That Man.
COLLINGS, JEANNIE
Role: Private Edwards in England
Born in 1952, Liverpudlian Jeannie Collings started her career as a model for the Moroccan government. After gaining success in this field, she turned her attention to acting. Among her television credits are appearances on The Benny Hill Show, The Generation Game, The Golden Shot, Dixon of Dock Green and Armchair Theatre. In films she’s been seen in Emily, Confessions of a Window Cleaner, Percy’s Progress, I’m Not Feeling Myself Tonight and Cruel Passion.
COLLINS, LAURA
Role: Nurse in Matron
COLLINS, MARIAN
Roles: Bride in Cruising, Bride in Cabby, Girl at Dirty Dick’s in Jack and Amazon Guard in Spying
On screen from the 1950s, Marian Collins was also seen in the television shows Dixon of Dock Green and Frankie Howerd, as well as films such as Behind the Headlines, The Desperate Man, Jungle Street and an uncredited role as Goldfinger’s girlfriend in the Bond movie, Goldfinger.
COLONEL, THE
Played by Wilfrid Hyde-White
From his own private room at the Haven Hospital, the Colonel drives the nurses mad in Nurse with his incessant demands. His good nature, though, is reciprocated and everyone bends over backwards to help, especially Mick, the ward orderly, who’s forever placing bets on the horses for the Colonel. The staff get their own back in the end, courtesy of a strategically placed daffodil!
COMMENTATOR
Played by Peter Cockburn
In Camping he commentates on the film, Nudist Paradise, which is shown at the Picture Playhouse.
COMMISSIONER
Played by Alan Gifford
Based in Washington, the Commissioner works in the Bureau of Internal Affairs. In Cowboy he’s first seen having a little fun with a woman in his office until interrupted by Perkins, his assistant. A former janitor at the law school Judge Burke, of Stodge City, attended, he responds to Burke’s request for a peace marshal but can’t find anyone to fill the position until Marshall P. Knutt walks in looking for a job. Assuming he’s actually a marshal when he’s actually a drainage, sanitation and garbage disposal engineer, he packs him off to Stodge City.
COMPANION
Played by Peter Jesson
One of seven companions originally seen in Cleo.
CONCORDE STEWARD
Played by James Fagan
Gets more than he bargained for when he attends to Emmannuelle ‘Straying Hands’ Prevert, the French Ambassador’s wife, during a London-bound flight on Concorde. Seen in Emmannuelle.
CONNOISSEURS DE LONDRES
The organisation holds a wine-tasting session at the Ruby Room in Regardless.
CONNOISSEUR
Played by David Lodge
Seen in Regardless, the Connoisseur attends the wine-tasting session at the Ruby Room organised for the Connoisseurs de Londres. He helps a drunk Lily Duveen, who was hired from Helping Hands to collect invitations, to her feet when she collapses on the floor, only to be accused of having straying hands.
CONNOR, JEREMY
Roles: Jeremy Bishop in Nurse, Willy in Constable, Footpad in Dick, Student with Ice-cream in Behind and Gunner Hiscocks in England
Son of Kenneth, Jeremy Connor was born in 1955 and made occasional screen appearances as an actor. He now lives in New Zealand.
CONNOR, KENNETH
Roles: Horace Strong in Sergeant, Bernie Bishop in Nurse, Gregory Adams in Teacher, Constable Charlie Constable in Constable, Sam Twist in Regardless, Dr Arthur Binn in Cruising, Ted Watson in Cabby, Hengist Pod in Cleo, Claude Chumley in Up the Jungle, Lord Hampton of Wick in Henry, Mr Tidey in Matron, Stanley Blunt in Abroad, Mayor Frederick Bumble in Girls, Constable in Dick, Major Leep in Behind, Captain S. Melly in England and Leyland in Emmannuelle
TV: Christmas (’70); Christmas (’72); What a Carry On!; Christmas (’73); The Prisoner of Spenda; The Baron Outlook; Orgy and Bess; One in the Eye for Harold; The Nine Old Cobblers; The Case of the Screaming Winkles; The Case of the Coughing Parrot; Under the Round Table; Short Knight, Long Daze; And in My Lady’s Chamber; Who Needs Kitchener? and Lamp Posts of the Empire
STAGE: London! and Laughing
A sublime piece of casting saw Kenneth Connor play Horace Strong, the hypochondriac who’s horrified to be passed fit for national service in Sergeant and set the tone for the diminutive actor’s Carry On career. If ever someone was required to play a dithering, nervous, angst-ridden little man, chances are Connor would be top of the list. He portrayed such characters with aplomb and quickly became an essential part of the gang.
Born in London in 1918, Kenneth Connor made his stage debut at the age of two and by the time he was eleven was performing various acts with his brother in revue shows. Deciding that he wanted to concentrate on becoming a ‘serious’ actor, he attended the Central School of Drama. Upon graduating his first professional job was as Boy David at His Majesty’s Theatre, London, in 1936.
He went on to act in numerous repertory theatres, later becoming a member of the Bristol Old Vic Company; although the outbreak of war in 1939, during which he served with the army’s Middlesex Regiment as a gunner, put a temporary halt to his career, he was for part of the time attached to George Black’s company, Stars in Battledress, touring the Mediterranean.
After demob he returned to acting in a West End play at the Strand Theatre and, before long, a role in the television soap, The Huggetts; but he made his name for the array of character voices he created on radio shows such as Just William and Ray’s A Laugh with Ted Ray, the start of a long and lasting association with the comedian. His success in Ray’s A Laugh saw Ted Ray engage him as his top supporting player in the television series, The Ted Ray Show.
He went on to feature in the 1955 comedy, The Ladykillers, before appearing in the first of many Carry On roles. Other film credits include Poison Pen, The Black Rider, Davy, Make Mine a Million, Watch Your Stern, Nearly A Nasty Accident, Dentist on the Job, What a Carve Up and Rhubarb.
CARRY ON CONSTABLE
An Anglo Amalgamated release
A Peter Rogers production
Based on an idea by Brock Williams
Released as a U certificate in 1960 in black & white Running time: 86 mins
CAST
| Sidney James | Sergeant Frank Wilkins |
| Eric Barker | Inspector Mills |
| Kenneth Connor | Constable Charlie Constable |
| Charles Hawtrey | PC Timothy Gorse |
| Kenneth Williams | PC Stanley Benson |
| Leslie Phillips | PC Tom Potter |
| Joan Sims | WPC Gloria Passworthy |
| Hattie Jacques | Sgt Laura Moon |
| Cyril Chamberlain | Thurston |
| Shirley Eaton | Sally Barry |
| Joan Hickson | Mrs May |
| Irene Handl | Distraught Woman |
| Terence Longdon | Herbert Hall |
| Freddie Mills | Crook |
| Jill Adams | WPC Harrison |
| Brian Oulton | Store Manager |
| Victor Maddern | Criminal Type |
| Joan Young | Suspect |
| Esma Cannon | Deaf Old Lady |
| Hilda Fenemore | Agitated Woman |
| Noel Dyson | Vague Woman |
| Robin Ray | Assistant Manager |
| Michael Balfour | Matt |
| Diane Aubrey | Honoria |
| Ian Curry | Eric |
| Mary Law | 1st Shop Assistant |
| Lucy Griffiths | Miss Horton |
| Peter Bennett | Thief |
| Jack Taylor | Cliff |
| Eric Boon | Shorty |
| Janetta Lake | Girl with dog |
| Dorinda Stevens | Young Woman |
| Ken Kennedy | Wall-eyed Man |
| Jeremy Connor | Willy |
| Tom Gill | |
| Frank Forsyth | |
| John Antrobus | |
| Eric Corrie | |
| Anthony Sagar | Citizens |
PRODUCTION TEAM
Screenplay by Norman Hudis
Music composed and directed by Bruce Montgomery
Art Director: Carmen Dillon
Director of Photography: Ted Scaife
Editor: John Shirley
Production Manager: Frank Bevis
Camera Operator: Alan Hume
Assistant Director: Peter Manley
Sound Editor: Leslie Wiggins
Sound Recordists: Robert T. MacPhee and Bill Daniels
Continuity: Joan Davis
Make-up: George Blackler
Hairdressing: Stella Rivers
Dress Designer: Yvonne Caffin
Set Dressing: Vernon Dixon
Casting Director: Betty White
Producer: Peter Rogers
Director: Gerald Thomas
Sgt. Moon (Hattie Jacques) and Sgt. Wilkins (Sid James) make the perfect partnership
Benson (Kenneth Williams) and Potter (Leslie Phillips) patrol their beat
A flu epidemic sweeps Britain, affecting every industry, including the police force. With constables dropping like flies, raw recruits just out of training school are thrown into the thick of the action, as well as the incorrigible Timothy Gorse, a special constable whose services are only called upon as a last resort.
Before long, the new faces, except for the efficient WPC Passworthy, are causing chaos wherever they tread. After coming to the assistance of a distraught mother who thinks she’s lost her little boy, Gorse decides to play around on the boy’s scooter, only to find himself bumping into PC Benson, who’s out walking Lady, a police dog. As they crash down some steps, the dog runs off.
Benson regards himself as an expert in the physiology of the criminal mind, claiming he can spot a crook a mile off. When a man bumps into him in the street, Benson doesn’t regard the man as anything but a law-abiding member of the public, that is until his trousers fall to the ground because the passer-by has stolen his braces. Another example of his ineptness sees him trying to persuade a supposed car thief from committing a crime, only to discover that embarrassingly he’s accusing a detective sergeant from the CID.
With the threat of suspension hanging over their heads, the new recruits pound their beats in pairs. Potter and Benson spot the getaway car involved in a recent robbery, and identifying a way of redeeming themselves for the earlier fiascos, try and find the robbers themselves. Eventually assisted by Gorse, they manage to catch the crooks in an abandoned house but it’s the lazy, inefficient Inspector Mills who takes all the credit and is transferred to an area college where, ironically, he’ll be in charge of morale and discipline, with Sergeant Wilkins taking over the running of the station after his long-overdue promotion to inspector.
On television, he appeared in, among others, A Show Called Fred, Blackadder the Third, You Rang, M’Lord?, Rentaghost and provided the voices for the popular children’s show, Torchy the Battery Boy. But he’s probably best remembered in this medium for his performances as Monsieur Alfonse, the undertaker, in the sitcom ’Allo, ’Allo! and as Uncle Sammy Morris in the holiday camp sitcom, Hi-de-Hi!.
Awarded an MBE in 1991 for services to showbusiness, Connor was entertaining on BBC’s Noel’s House Party just two days before he died in 1993, aged seventy-five.
CONSTABLE
Played by Billy Cornelius
The police constable appears in Girls alongside the police inspector at the Palace Hotel investigating reports that Patricia Potter, who’s suspected of being a man, is back at the hotel.
CONSTABLE
Played by Kenneth Connor
The Parish Constable in Dick attempts to catch the elusive criminal, Dick Turpin. He’s way past his best-before date, though, and is rather hopeless when it comes to capturing the legendary highwayman.
CONSTABLE, CARRY ON
see feature box here.
CONSTABLE, CONSTABLE CHARLIE
Played by Kenneth Connor
One of the newly-graduated police constables who arrives on the scene in Constable. A nervous, highly superstitious man who can’t even attempt to develop a relationship with WPC Passworthy until he knows whether her birthday lands under the correct planetary sign, such is his reliance on astrology.
CONTE FILLIPO DI PISA
Played by Alan Curtis
Arrives in Henry to talk to Cardinal Wolsey about King Henry’s application for an annulment of his wedding to Queen Marie of Normandy. He’s employed by the Pope and travels as the emissary of the Vatican to explain that the Pope is both outraged and morally shocked but will overlook his concerns in return for 5000 pieces of gold.
CONWAY, BERT
Played by Jimmy Logan
A loud-mouthed Scot who joins the Wundatours party travelling to the Mediterranean resort of Elsbels in Abroad. He jokes to Stuart Farquhar, the courier, about heading off for a dirty weekend, but it’s clear that is what he hopes the trip turns out like, especially when he eyes up Sadie Tomkins from the moment she climbs into the coach, even though he’s competing with Vic Flange for her affections. Makes his living as a bookmaker.
Bert Conway (Jimmy Logan, right) chats up Sadie Tomkins (Barbara Windsor) in the Med (Abroad)
COOK
Played by Anthony Sagar
In Cruising, the Cook is concerned when he realises his boss, Wilfred Haines, is suffering seasickness despite only just leaving port. When Haines makes a hasty dash for the toilets, he pushes into the Cook squashing a creamy dessert all over his face. Seen again, later, being accused by the chef of taking too long cracking open a pile of eggs.
COOK
Played by Mario Fabrizi
A Cook on the Happy Wanderer, he’s seen in Cruising confirming to Wilfred Haines that the ship is actually sailing.
COOK, CORPORAL
Played by Patricia Franklin
In England seen dishing out the so-called food in the NAAFI at the experimental 1313 anti-aircraft battery.
COOKING FAT
In Loving, Jenny Grubb thinks the porter’s unseen black cat is called Cooking Fat in the flats where she lives.
COOKSON
For Cookson, the constable in Girls, see ‘Constable’.
COOLING, MISS
Played by Esma Cannon
The dithering, nervous old lady with a heart of gold tries her best as Bert Handy’s secretary in Regardless. Not the most reliable person in the world, she gets messages confused, which explains why Sam Twist, one of the employees, has a wasted journey to the Forth Bridge, instead of providing a fourth at a game of bridge.
COOMBS, PAT
Roles: Patient in Doctor and New Matron in Again Doctor
Born in London in 1926, Pat Coombs started her working life as a nursery school assistant, trained at LAMDA and began working on stage before establishing herself as a familiar face on television, primarily playing comedy parts or working as a foil for well-known comedians.
Her early credits included Lana Butt in the pilot of Beggar My Neighbour and the three subsequent series transmitted in 1967–68. She also appeared as Violet Robinson in Lollipop Loves Mr Mole in 1971 and the series, Lollipop, the following year. Other series in which she was cast included two runs of Don’t Drink the Water!, four series of You’re Only Young Twice, In Sickness and in Health, Birds of a Feather and EastEnders.
Coombs, who died at Denville Hall, the retirement home for actors, in 2002, made a handful of film appearances in productions such as Adolf Hitler – My Part In His Downfall and Ooh! You Are Awful. In the mid-1990s she was diagnosed with the bone disease osteoporosis but continued working until her final days, recording an episode of the radio series, Like They’ve Never Been Gone, with June Whitfield and Roy Hudd, just months before her death.
COOPER, JUNE
Roles: Girl in Don’t Lose Your Head and Hospitality Girl in Up The Khyber
Other screen credits include playing a stewardess in an episode of 1970’s Mister Jerico.
COOTE, CHARLES
Played by Charles Hawtrey
Chief designer at W.C. Boggs, manufacturers of quality toilet ware, the foppish Charles Coote is seen in At Your Convenience. He lodges with Agatha Spanner, with whom he strikes up a relationship and intends to marry. Agatha’s devotion to Charles rankles with her son, Vic, who happens to be the union representative at the toilet ware company.
COPE, KENNETH
Roles: Vic Spanner in At Your Convenience and Cyril Carter in Matron
Born in Liverpool in 1934, Kenneth Cope is probably best known for his television appearances in shows such as That Was The Week That Was, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), Coronation Street and, more recently, Brookside, in which he played Ray Hilton.
Son of an engineer, he trained at Bristol’s Old Vic Theatre School after giving up his job in the drawing office at the Automatic Telephone Company. While at Bristol, he made his screen debut when a production of The Duenna in which he was appearing was recorded.
After graduating, he worked in repertory theatre, initially at Cromer, before moving to London, earning money as a part-time garage attendant in-between acting jobs; eventually television work came his way with early credits being episodes of The Adventures of Robin Hood, Ivanhoe and Dixon of Dock Green.
His big break came with the role of Jed Stone in Coronation Street, which led to appearances on That Was The Week That Was. But for many people, he’ll always be remembered as Marty Hopkirk, the helpful ghost in the detective series, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased).
He’s also chalked up a lot of film credits, including X the Unknown, The Yangtse Incident, Dunkirk, Naked Fury, Father Came Too, A Twist of Sand and Juggernaut.
MEMORIES
‘One scene in At Your Convenience involved a motorbike sequence with my character and Bernard Bresslaw’s. That was very memorable because Bernard couldn’t ride and was terrified. I think he’d told the production team that he could.
‘On the set at Pinewood, he had to come round this corner to my front door, switch off the engine, park it, leave it on its stand and come up the steps to my character’s house. Well, we could hear the bike revving up around the corner and then the bike would stall. He didn’t appear for about six or seven takes. Eventually he managed to get it around the corner but then drove too far past the mark, so that was no good. This went on for what seemed like all day. What made it even more funnier was that poor old Bernie’s visor was misted up and he couldn’t see anything either. In the end, a couple of fellas pushed the bike into the shot.
‘Matron was a lot of fun, too. Playing Cyril Carter was a lovely part. I had some say in the costume and went for suspenders because I thought they’d be funnier than tights. At lunchtime, you couldn’t get changed else you’d lose about fifteen minutes off your break, so I kept my costume on and walked over to get some lunch, wearing my full make-up, wig, the lot. I used to love going down the corridors in Pinewood because the high heels would make a hell of a noise on the floor. One day I passed three guys in the corridor, dressed like a nurse, and went straight into the gents. That didn’t half make them look!’
KENNETH COPE
COPPING, CORPORAL BILL
Played by Bill Owen
Sergeant Grimshaw’s trusty old corporal. Seen in Sergeant, he helps turn Able Platoon from a bunch of no-hopers into the champion platoon during their ten-week training course.
CORBETT, HARRY H.
Role: Detective Sergeant Sidney Bung in Screaming!
Born in Burma in 1925, the son of an army officer, Harry H. Corbett moved to Manchester as a child and served as a Royal Marine during World War Two, before training as a radiographer.
He was then drawn to the stage, first working as an understudy for the Chorlton Repertory Company and, from 1951, acting with the Theatre Workshop at the Theatre Royal, Stratford. He went on to roles at the Royal Court Theatre and the West End in productions such as Hamlet, The Power and the Glory and The Way of the World.
In 1955 Corbett began his big screen career, acting in films such as Nowhere To Go before going on to play Harold Steptoe in the television comedy series Steptoe and Son in 1962, a role which was the catalyst to his becoming a household name.
He continued acting in films, adding Sammy Going South, The Bargee, Rattle of a Simple Man, and The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins to his lengthening list of credits, as well as appearing in other television series, including Grundy and Potter, while on the stage he was seen playing the lead in Macbeth at the Globe Theatre in 1973.
He was made OBE in 1976, before his death in 1982, aged fifty-seven.
CORDELL, SHANE
Role: Attractive Nurse in Nurse
Shane Cordell was seen in a 1957 episode of Dixon of Dock Green, as well as a handful of films during the ’50s, including Three Men in a Boat, The Good Companions, Fiend Without A Face and Girls At Sea.
CORKTIP
Played by Anita Harris
A belly dancer-cum-fortune teller in Follow That Camel who’s first seen entertaining customers at the Café ZigaZig. Sergeant Nocker takes a shine to her and although she initially works with Sheikh Abdul Abulbul to entrap Nocker and Bertram West, she ends up being employed as Nocker’s batman when he’s eventually promoted to commandant.
CORNELIUS, BILLY
Roles: Odbodd Junior in Screaming!, Soldier in Don’t Lose Your Head, Patient in Plaster in Again Doctor, Guard in Henry, Constable in Girls, Tough Man in Dick, Man with Salad in Behind. Also uncredited roles in Cleo (Companion/escaped slave) and Cowboy (cowboy shot in opening scenes). He doubled for Terry Scott in Up the Jungle
TV: Christmas (’72), One in the Eye for Harold, Under the Round Table and Short Knight, Long Daze
Billy Cornelius, born in London in 1934, entered the printing trade upon leaving school. Always a keen amateur boxer, he turned professional in the mid-1950s and fought competitively for five years.
When he quit the ring, he followed a friend’s suggestion and began doing extra work and stunt work in film and television, which he combined with running pubs around the London area. His screen credits include The Avengers, Doctor Who, Callan, Ace of Wands and three episodes of Carry On Laughing for television, as well as When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, Bless This House, The Mind of Mr Soames and, his last film, The Long Good Friday.
CARRY ON COWBOY
An Anglo Amalgamated film
A Peter Rogers production
Distributed through Warner-Pathe Distribution Ltd
Songs: ‘Carry On Cowboy’ and ‘This is the Night for Love’ – music by Eric Rogers Lyrics by Alan Rogers
Sung by Anon
Released as an A certificate in 1965 in colour
Running time: 95 mins
CAST
| Sidney James | Johnny Finger / The Rumpo Kid |
| Kenneth Williams | Judge Burke |
| Jim Dale | Marshall P. Knutt |
| Charles Hawtrey | Big Heap |
| Joan Sims | Belle |
| Peter Butterworth | Doc |
| Bernard Bresslaw | Little Heap |
| Angela Douglas | Annie Oakley |
| Jon Pertwee | Sheriff Albert Earp |
| Percy Herbert | Charlie |
| Sydney Bromley | Sam Houston |
| Edina Ronay | Dolores |
| Lionel Murton | Clerk |
| Peter Gilmore | Curly |
| Davy Kaye | Josh the Undertaker |
| Alan Gifford | Commissioner |
| Brian Rawlinson | Stagecoach Guard |
| Michael Nightingale | Bank Manager |
| Simon Cain | Short |
| Sally Douglas | Kitkata |
| Cal McCord | Mex |
| Garry Colleano | Slim |
| Arthur Lovegrove | Old Cowhand |
| Margaret Nolan | Miss Jones |
| Tom Clegg | Blacksmith |
| Larry Cross | Perkins |
| Brian Coburn | Trapper |
| The Ballet Montparnasse | Dancing Girls |
| Hal Galili | Cowhand |
| Norman Stanley | Drunk |
| Carmen Dene | Mexican Girl |
| Andrea Allen | Minnie |
| Vicki Smith | Polly |
| Audrey Wilson | Jane |
| Donna White | Jenny |
| Lisa Thomas | Sally |
| Gloria Best | Bridget |
| George Mossman | Stagecoach Driver |
| Richard O’Brien | Rider |
| Eric Rogers | Pianist |
PRODUCTION TEAM
Screenplay by Talbot Rothwell
Music composed and conducted by Eric Rogers
Associate Producer: Frank Bevis
Art Director: Bert Davey
Editor: Rod Keys
Director of Photography: Alan Hume
Camera Operator: Godfrey Godar
Assistant Director: Peter Bolton
Unit Manager: Ron Jackson
Make-up: Geoffrey Rodway
Sound Editor: Jim Groom
Sound Recordists: Robert T. MacPhee and Ken Barker
Hairdressing: Stella Rivers
Costume Designer: Cynthia Tingey
Assistant Editor: Jack Gardner
Master of Horse: Jeremy Taylor
Continuity: Gladys Goldsmith
Producer: Peter Rogers
Director: Gerald Thomas
Judge Burke (Kenneth Williams) lives up to his name
Stodge City is a sleepy Western town where people live in peace and harmony, that is until Johnny Finger, alias the Rumpo Kid, arrives on the scene and starts throwing his weight, and his bullets, around. He cuts a frightening figure and is soon running the place; even Belle’s Place, an inn which only served soft drinks, is renamed Rumpo’s Place and becomes a rowdy, alcohol-swilling gambling house, with dancing girls, fights and goodness knows what as part of the scene. It’s a far cry from the days when Judge Burke tried banishing impropriety by declaring shooting, fighting, boozing and gambling were banned from Stodge, or as he put it so bluntly, ‘no nothing’.
No one has the strength or guts to stand up to the Rumpo Kid and his growing band of followers; the last person to try, Albert Earp, the sheriff, ended up with a chestful of bullets. His dying words were for his folks to be told what happened in the hope they might try and even the score; his wish was heard and heading for Stodge is Earp’s daughter, Annie Oakley, a fine shot who’s determined to track down the man who killed her father. Sharing the stagecoach with her is Marshall Knutt, a drainage, sanitation and garbage disposal engineer, who’s been involved in a terrible mix-up; desperate to recruit a peace marshal to sort things out in Stodge City, the local government take Marshall’s Christian name as meaning he’s a qualified marshal and send him to clean up Stodge City; Knutt, meanwhile, thinks he’s been appointed to clear out the town’s drains.
En route to Stodge, Annie has the chance to show off her prowess with the gun. Worried about the arrival of a new marshal, the Rumpo Kid, not wanting to be implicated himself, seeks the help of a local Indian tribe to try and prevent Knutt reaching Stodge. When they attack the travelling stagecoach carrying Knutt and Oakley, they didn’t expect to be facing a crack shot. Surviving the attack, Knutt thinks he was the one who successfully saw off the Indian threat.
Still desperate to find a way of ridding the town of Marshall P. Knutt, Johnny Finger hatches a plot whereby the marshal is tipped off about cattle-rustling taking place that night. The judge tells Marshall to take a posse out with him but he has trouble recruiting anyone, so Johnny gives him two of his own men. Arriving at the ranch, he’s accused of horse-rustling and finds himself with a hangman’s noose over his head. It looks like it’s curtains for Marshall Knutt until Annie Oakley comes to the rescue.
Back in Stodge City, Annie entices Johnny Finger up to her bedroom and finds a way of getting him to admit to killing her father; she invites him back later and in preparation for his visit rigs up her gun to shoot him when he opens the door. Fortunately for Johnny Finger, his sidekick, Charlie, enters her room first and is killed.
Later, when the judge lets on to the Rumpo Kid that the marshal isn’t actually a marshal, but an engineer sent to the town by mistake, he vows to kill him. Annie Oakley tries to persuade Marshall to leave town, revealing that she was the one who shot the Indians. Marshall isn’t going to run, though, and has a plan he’s confident will work if she can help him become a crack shot in the two hours remaining before the Rumpo Kid’s arrival in town.
He may not know his way around a gun, but Marshall P. Knutt is an expert when it comes to drains and sets about nailing the Rumpo Kid once and for all.
The Rumpo Kid (Sid James) meets his match in the unlikely shape of Marshall Knutt (Jim Dale)
Nowadays, he can be found helping his son run fruit stalls at Putney and Clapham Junction.
CORNELIUS, JOE
Role: Second in Loving
Born in London in 1928, Joe Cornelius started his working life, aged fourteen, in the printing trade. A keen amateur wrestler, by the time he was twenty-two he’d decided to turn pro and travelled to Berlin for his first bout. During a career spanning two decades, he fought around the world, including China and Japan, and was crowned Southern Area heavyweight champion and runner-up in the nationals.
He made occasional television and film appearances, including Adam Adamant Lives! and The Befrienders for the small screen and The File of the Golden Goose, Trog and The Dirty Dozen for the big screen.
After quitting wrestling in 1973, he managed various pubs in London before retiring to Lanzarote, where he remained for six years. Now lives in Spain.
CORRIE, ERIC
Role: Citizen in Constable
On screen since the 1950s, his television work included The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Adventures of Sir Lancelot and Doomwatch, while his film credits ranged from The Colditz Story and A Hill in Korea to The Quatermass Xperiment and The Iron Maiden.
CORSET LADY
Played by Amelia Bayntun
Seen in Loving, the woman is desperately being squeezed into a corset by Esme Crowfoot when Sidney Bliss calls to set up a date for Bertie Muffet.
COUCH, LIONEL
Art Director on Teacher, Regardless, Don’t Lose Your Head, Camping, Loving, Henry, At Your Convenience, Matron, Abroad, Dick, Behind and England
Educated at Dulwich College, Lionel Couch trained at Camberwell Art School and was intending to become an architect before the outbreak of war saw him serve in the army.
After demob he quickly found employment as an assistant art director at Gainsborough Studios before transferring to Pinewood. His CV boasts such pictures as Nurse On Wheels, Night Must Fall, Casino Royale, Anne of the Thousand Days (for which he received an Academy Award nomination), Assault, Bless This House, The Satanic Rites of Dracula and, his last picture as art director, The Awakening.
COULTER, PHIL
Co-wrote the song, ‘Don’t Lose Your Head’, heard in the film of the same name
Born in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, in 1942, composer, pianist and arranger Phil Coulter graduated from Belfast’s Queen’s University and went on to write music for films such as A Man Called Sledge and The Water Babies as well as television series, including 1980’s Metal Mickey.
He’s also made the occasional appearance as an actor, such as in the 1999 film Black Eyed Dog and the television series, You’re A Star, hosted his own show, Coulter and Company for RTE in Ireland, and released many albums.
COUNSELL, JENNY
Role: Night Nurse in Again Doctor
COURTAULDS
The company which supplied all the nurses’ uniforms for Nurse.
COURTENAY, FRANCIS
Played by Kenneth Williams
Seen in Regardless, Francis is an intellectual who’s fluent in sixteen languages, including gobbledygook, which helps when the landlord comes calling. Fancies himself as a model and is delighted when a modelling assignment is given to him – that is until discovering he’s been hired to model hats for beekeepers.
COURTING GIRL
Played by Drina Pavlovic
The Courting Girl, who’s sneaked into the bushes with a boy, is disturbed when Henry Barnes throws a stick into the shrubs during Behind.
COURTS
The shop in Camping which Sid Boggle and Bernie Lugg visit hoping to find a leaflet on the nudist camp they plan visiting with their girlfriends. Unfortunately they pick up the wrong one and end up in a mudpit in Devon. The shop is also visited by Charlie Muggins who causes a commotion before buying some camping gear.
COWBOY, CARRY ON
see feature box here.
COWHAND
Played by Hal Galili
In Cowboy the Cowhand is sitting beside a camp fire with his colleague, Joe, keeping an eye on his herd when he’s attacked by Rumpo’s men.
COWLING, BRENDA
Roles: Matron in Girls and Wife in Behind
London-born Brenda Cowling wanted to be a film star as early as her childhood, but after leaving school trained as a shorthand typist before eventually changing direction and joining RADA. While studying at the Academy she made a brief appearance as a drama student in Hitchcock’s Stage Fright.
Plenty of rep work followed before Cowling made her television debut. Early small screen appearances include several series of an afternoon keep-fit show and The Forsyte Saga. Her career has focused mainly on television but she has occasionally appeared on stage and in films, such as The Railway Children, International Velvet and a small part in the Bond movie, Octopussy.
Television credits include Dad’s Army; It Ain’t Half Hot; Mum, Hi-de-Hi!; Fawlty Towers; The Pallisers; Only When I Laugh; three series of Potter; four series of You Rang, M’Lord?; The Last Detective; Casualty; Murder in Suburbia; Doctors and Nurses and Holby City.
COX, IAN
Technical Advisor on Jack
Lieutenant Commander Ian Cox supplied his naval expertise for other films, such as 1970’s Hell Boats.
COX, JENNY
Role: Veronica in Behind
Born in Abervale, South Wales, Jenny Cox completed her education at Watford Grammar School and joined the local rep, making her debut as a prostitute in The Hostage. She moved on to begin her acting career in earnest at the Oxford Playhouse.
Her stage career has included a host of productions, including The Dirtiest Show in Town and Pyjama Tops, while her occasional small-screen appearances during the 1970s and ’80s include, among others, Steptoe and Son, Rings On Their Fingers, Shoestring, The Chinese Detective and Thames Television’s Spasms in 1977. She also played Dr Livingstone in the 1974 film, Can You Keep It Up for a Week?.
C. R. & J. BRAY
The establishment, which is next-door to D.L. Randall’s, is a tobacconist and newsagent. The front of the property is seen in Behind.
CRIBBINS, BERNARD
Roles: Midshipman Albert Poop-Decker in Jack, Harold Crump in Spying and Mordecai Mendoza in Columbus
Born in Oldham, Lancashire, in 1928, Bernard Cribbins began acting at the age of fourteen upon joining his local repertory company as an assistant stage manager. By the 1950s, he was playing leading roles on the West End stage and featuring in his own revue.
He began appearing on the screen in the late-1950s, with one-off roles in series like The Vise and small parts in films such as The Yangtse Incident and Davy, but it was the 1960s in which he attained national recognition. As well as releasing three novelty records, including Hole in the Ground, which climbed to number nine in 1962, he appeared in a string of films and television shows. His big-screen credits include Two Way Stretch, The Wrong Arm of the Law, Crooks in Cloisters, The Sandwich Man, The Railway Children and Dangerous Davies – The Last Detective. On television, he’s appeared in programmes such as The Troubleshooters, Fawlty Towers, Tales of the Unexpected, Barbara, High and Dry and, most recently, Coronation Street, as Wally Bannister. He’s also remembered for providing the voices to the Wombles on television.
CRIMINAL TYPE
Played by Victor Maddern
When PC Benson steps in and stops someone who he thinks is about to steal a car, he doesn’t realise he’s just stopped Detective Sergeant Liddell from CID.
CROMWELL, THOMAS
Played by Kenneth Williams
Henry VIII’s chancellor is seen in Henry rushing around trying to satisfy his employer’s every need. When money needs to be raised to pay for the King’s annulment, Cromwell comes up with the bright idea for taxing sex, called Sex Enjoyment Tax.
CROOK
Played by Freddie Mills
Seen in Constable, the crook and his accomplices have just robbed a jewellery shop when PC Potter, a callow new police constable, taps him on the shoulder as he climbs into the getaway car and asks for directions to the police station, totally oblivious to the fact that he’s just committed a crime.
CROSS, LARRY
Role: Perkins in Cowboy
Larry Cross, who died in 1976, appeared on television from the 1950s, and among his credits were roles in Sailor of Fortune, International Detective, The Saint, Man of the World, Man in a Suitcase, Callan, The Troubleshooters, Thriller and Hadleigh. In films he was seen in, among others, Time Lock, The Mouse on the Moon, Battle Beneath the Earth and his last film, 1975’s The Wind and the Lion.
CROW, DR
Played by Judith Furse
In charge of the subversive organisation STENCH, Dr Crow is seen in Spying. A threat to all mankind, Crow is responsible for the murder of Professor Stark and the stealing of a top-secret formula.
CROWFOOT, ESME
Played by Joan Sims
A client of the Wedded Bliss Agency who’s personally vetted – on a regular basis to the disgust of Sophie – by Sidney Bliss, who fancies her rotten. The thirty-five-year-old corset specialist lives in a flat at 32 Rogerham Mansions, Dunham Road, London W23, and used to date a man-mountain of a wrestler, Gripper Burke, until he went to fight in America. When he returns, they rekindle their relationship and end up getting engaged.
Bernard Cribbins (right) makes the first of three Carry On appearances (Jack)
CARRY ON CRUISING
An Anglo Amalgamated film
A Peter Rogers production
Distributed through Warner-Pathe Distribution Ltd
From a story by Eric Barker
Released as a U certificate in 1962 in colour
Running time: 89 mins
CAST
| Sidney James | Captain Wellington Crowther |
| Kenneth Williams | Leonard Marjoribanks |
| Kenneth Connor | Dr Arthur Binn |
| Liz Fraser | Glad Trimble |
| Dilys Laye | Flo Castle |
| Esma Cannon | Bridget Madderley |
| Lance Percival | Wilfred Haines |
| Jimmy Thompson | Sam Turner |
| Ronnie Stevens | Drunk |
| Vincent Ball | Jenkins |
| Cyril Chamberlain | Tom Tree |
| Willoughby Goddard | Very Fat Man |
| Ed Devereaux | Young Officer |
| Brian Rawlinson | Steward |
| Anton Rodgers | Young Man |
| Anthony Sagar | Cook |
| Terence Holland | Passer-by |
| Mario Fabrizi | Cook |
| Evan David | Bridegroom |
| Marian Collins | Bride |
| Jill Mai Meredith | Shapely Miss |
| Alan Casley | Kindly Seaman |
(Note: the song sung by Dr Binn while attempting to serenade Flo was recorded by Roberto Cardinali, for a fee of £75.)
PRODUCTION TEAM
Screenplay by Norman Hudis
Music composed and conducted by Bruce Montgomery and Douglas Gamley
Director of Photography: Alan Hume
Art Director: Carmen Dillon
Editor: John Shirley
Production Manager: Bill Hill
Camera Operator: Dudley Lovell
Assistant Director: Jack Causey
Sound Editors: Arthur Ridout and Archie Ludski
Sound Recordists: Robert T. MacPhee and Bill Daniels
Continuity: Penny Daniels
Make-up: George Blackler and Geoffrey Rodway
Hairdressing: Biddy Chrystal
Costume Designer: Joan Ellacott
Casting Director: Betty White
Beachwear for Miss Fraser and Miss Laye by ‘Silhouette’
The producers acknowledged the assistance of P&O – ORIENT LINES in the making of the film.
Producer: Peter Rogers
Director: Gerald Thomas
Capt. Crowther (Sid James) presides over a host of new faces
Doctor Binn (Kenneth Connor) is smitten with Flo (Dilys Laye, left)
Ready for another cruise, this time an April run around the sunny Mediterranean, Captain Crowther, who’s at the helm of the S.S. Happy Wanderer, is horrified to see new faces among his crew. Changes in personnel make him nervous because he believes they could spell disaster, thereby killing off any hope he has of taking over the captaincy of the company’s new trans-Atlantic liner.
Among the passengers embarking on the journey is an eccentric old lady, a drunk who spends his entire time propping up the bar and two girls, Flo and Glad. Flo hopes that during the cruise, with her friend’s help, she’ll find herself a husband. Dr Binn, the ship’s doctor, is attracted to her but it’s clear that feelings aren’t mutual, particularly as she’s already got her eye on Mr Jenkins, the PT instructor.
Meanwhile, Leonard Marjoribanks, the new first officer, happens to pop into the captain’s cabin when he’s mixing up various drinks. Unbeknown to Marjoribanks, Captain Crowther is trying to find the right combination for an Aberdeen Angus, his favourite tipple. The only person who knew how to mix the drink was Angus, the head barman, who resigned from his job without passing details on to his replacement. Marjoribanks believes the captain is drunk and convenes a meeting with the rest of the crew to inform them that he’s taking over the ship; everyone is, therefore, understandably shocked when a completely sober Captain Crowther strides into the room.
Flo Castle’s search for a husband, meanwhile, continues. Suddenly realising she needs a mature man, she only has eyes for the captain, but attempts to woo him fail. To help her friend, Glad Trimble secures the help of the first officer to bring Dr Binn and Flo together, and it’s not long before the ship’s doctor overcomes his timidity and proposes to Miss Castle.
As the cruise comes to an end, a party is thrown to celebrate ten years since the captain took charge of the Happy Wanderer; the captain is soon the recipient of good news when a cable arrives informing him he’s got the new job, but he declines the offer in order to stay with his beloved Happy Wanderer.
CROWTHER, CAPTAIN WELLINGTON
Played by Sid James
Captain Crowther has been at the helm of the Happy Wanderer for ten years. He served in the navy during the war, sailing Arctic waters, but has spent the last few decades ferrying passengers around the Mediterranean. Has hopes of being offered the captaincy of the company’s spanking new trans-Atlantic liner but realises it’s not a foregone conclusion, especially with several board members disliking him. Such an inferiority complex explains why he becomes incredibly nervous and worried when new faces join the crew of the Happy Wanderer, splitting up the loyal, reliable team he’s established over the years.
Despite problems endured during the April cruise to the Med in Cruising, the trip turns out successful and Crowther is offered his dream job, only to turn it down in order to stay with the Happy Wanderer.
Away from the wheelhouse, he’s green-fingered; his garden is the envy of everyone associated with the various horticultural societies to which he belongs.
CRUISING, CARRY ON
see feature box here.
CRUMP, HAROLD
Played by Bernard Cribbins
Agent 04733, whose codename is Blue Bottle, is one of the callow agents reporting to Simkins in Spying. A Southern Counties champion in ludo for four years, he’s recruited to the team whose job is to retrieve a stolen formula. While doing so, he falls in love with fellow agent, Daphne Honeybutt.
CRUMP, PROFESSOR ROLAND
Played by Kenneth Williams
The distinguished archaeologist, who lectures at the University of Kidburn, heads to Templeton where a Roman encampment has been unearthed next to a caravan site. He’s joined on his dig by a bunch of enthusiastic students and an expert in Roman remains, Professor Vooshka, who, surprisingly, takes quite a fancy to the professor, although his inexperience with the opposite sex is plain to see.
CUMMINGS, BILL
Role: Thug in Spying
As a stuntman, Bill Cummings worked on such films as Willow and ten James Bond movies, ranging from Dr No and From Russia with Love to The Spy Who Loved Me and For Your Eyes Only. On television he carried out stunts on Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) and The Prisoner.
Cummings appeared in small parts in The Champions and The Avengers on television, as well as Heavenly Bodies! and The Pink Panther Strikes Again on the big screen.
CURLY
Played by Peter Gilmore
One of the Rumpo Kid’s men who run Stodge City to their own game plan. Seen in Cowboy.
CURRY, IAN
Roles: Eric in Constable and Leonard Beamish in Regardless
Born in Rhodesia in 1930, Ian Curry was seen only occasionally on screen during the early 1960s. His television credits include Richard the Lionheart, The Avengers and Zero One, while he appeared in a few films, such as Underground and The Dock Brief.
CURTIS, ALAN
Roles: Conte di Pisa in Henry and Police Chief in Abroad
Born in Coulsdon, Surrey, in 1930, Alan Curtis left school and immediately entered the business at the Croydon Grand, appearing as a village boy in Great Day. Apart from a brief spell working for Anglo-American Oil, he’s remained in the industry ever since. In 1947, he secured his first break with a repertory company in Gloucester, helping construct the sets, followed by a six-month spell with a small film company in Reigate, making short, animated religious films.
In 1948 he mixed acting with work behind the scenes, including a stint at Colwyn Bay, and by the mid-1950s was appearing on the screen. His film credits include Die Screaming, Marianne, Four Dimensions of Greta, The Flesh and Blood Show, Tiffany Jones and The Vision, while on television he’s been seen in, among others, The Saint, Paul Temple, Whoops Baghdad!, Last of the Summer Wine, The Corridor People, Crossroads and Duty Free. His busy stage career, meanwhile, has seen him make just under a thousand appearances at the London Palladium.
In 1995 he suffered a stroke which restricted work opportunities for a while but has since returned to acting and, in 2003, was seen in the popular drama, Footballers’ Wives.
CUSTOMS OFFICER
Played by David Hart
Searches Emmannuelle Prevert’s baggage in Emmannuelle when she first arrives in the UK, paying particular attention to her underwear. (Note: the scene was cut from the film.)
