The Complete A–Z of Everything Carry On. Richard Webber

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СКАЧАТЬ (Faint) Beer …

       (His eyes open.)

       TED’S EYELINE

       From his corner-bed, a night-view of the ward achieves focus after a shaky start. Six beds on the opposite side of the ward, each containing a slumbering patient. Snores are thunderous in a male ward: they can provide the background for the following.

       INT. WARD. NIGHT

       Ted resumed.

      TED: (Louder) Lager…

       He licks his lips.)

      TED: (Normal tone) Iced lager … Hey, Ethel! How about some service…?

       (He blinks, and licks his lips again.)

      TED: (Good and loud) How long’ve I gotta wait for service? I’m a good customer Ethel! Hey – (Loudest) – ETHEL!…

       (Frances James, young, slim and attractive night-nurse (qualified) appears at his bedside, a firm and confident ministering angel – to begin with. He turns his head to her. Though he can now talk, he doesn’t really know what he’s talking about yet – or, at least, the normal defences and compromises of ordinary conversation are not in operation. His voice is strident. His ideas are uninhibited and directly expressed throughout.)

      TED: ’Bout time … Hey – you’re not Ethel …

      FRANCES: Relax now, Mr York.

      TED: (Truculent) Where’s Ethel?

      FRANCES: Fast asleep I hope – same as you should be.

      TED: You know Ethel?

      FRANCES: I think I know the one you mean. Barmaid at the Greyhound.

      TED: That’s right. Get her.

      ANCIENT CARRIER

      Played by Ian Wilson

      Assists the Carrier in Jack by ferrying Midshipman Poop-Decker to his ship at Plymouth Docks.

      ANCIENT GENERAL

      Played by Eric Barker

      Seen dining at the French Ambassador’s residence in Emmannuelle.

      ANGEL, MR (THE BOSUN)

      Played by Percy Herbert

      The bosun, who’s been at sea fifteen years, works on the frigate Venus. He’s seen in Jack, initially as part of the press gang scouring the streets of Plymouth for two unfortunates to join the ship’s crew.

      ANGELINETTA, OLGA

      Hairdresser on Teacher and Jack

      Olga Angelinetta, daughter of a restaurateur, was born in London in 1902. After achieving her City and Guilds in hairdressing and wig-making, she worked for leading names in the industry until being taken ill in 1943 and spending a year in hospital. Soon after recuperating, she secured a job at Pinewood Studios.

      She eventually turned freelance and worked at all the top studios, including Denham and Twickenham. Her list of film credits included The Counterfeit Plan, Make Mine Mink, One Million Years B.C., Our Mother’s House and, her final picture, A Clockwork Orange in 1971.

      She retired in the early 1970s and died in 1995, aged ninety-three.

      ANGUS

      An unseen character in Cruising, Angus was head barman on the Happy Wanderer until he tied the knot and was sworn off booze. Believing a life on the ocean wave wasn’t compatible with marriage, he jacked in his job. The trouble was, he was the only one capable of mixing an Aberdeen Angus, Captain Crowther’s favourite tipple. Eventually, though, he passes on the details to his replacement, Sam Turner, to the relief of the captain.

       ANGUS ROBERTSON & COMPANY LIMITED

      The estate agent in Cabby who markets the yard and garages Peggy Hawkins rents for her Glamcab taxi company. The office is based at 306 Park Street.

      ANTHEA

      Played by Amanda Barrie

      A posh-speaking Glamcab driver in Cabby. When Ted Watson tries infiltrating the team by posing, disastrously, as a glamour girl, she embarrasses him by asking for help out of her clothes because the staff uniforms are required for washing.

      ANTONY, MARK

      Played by Sid James

      The courageous soldier who claims to be Julius Caesar’s best friend in Cleo. Falls in love with Cleopatra and plots to murder Caesar but his plans are beset with unexpected difficulties.

      ANTONY’S DUSKY MAIDEN

      Played by Sally Douglas

      A dark-haired beauty whom Mark Antony buys from a slave market in Cleo.

      ANTROBUS, JOHN

      Role: Citizen in Constable. Also credited for writing additional material for the screenplays of Sergeant and Columbus

      Son of a sergeant-major in the army, John Antrobus was born in Woolwich Military Hospital in 1933. After leaving school he served two years in the Merchant Navy before, aged nineteen, following his father into the army. He attended Sandhurst Royal Military Academy and was progressing well until his increasing disenchantment at the thought of a military career saw him quit the Forces.

      Wanting to be a writer, he was fortunate enough to meet Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, who’d established Associated London Scripts with Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes. They agreed to read some of his work, so by day he earned his living as a waiter, supply teacher and film extra (he was in a crowd scene in 1984 and a non-speaking lab assistant in The Man Who Never Was), while in the evening he completed a script and sent it to the writers.

      Before long he was writing with Johnny Speight and supplying material for, among others, Frankie Howerd, Arthur Haynes, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan. He’s also contributed to numerous television shows, including That Was The Week That Was, The Army Game, Bootsie and Snudge, The Dustbinmen and Milligan In …

      Antrobus has written for all media, including the screenplays for 1959’s Idle On Parade, starring Anthony Newley, Lionel Jeffries and William Bendix, and, a decade later, The Bed-Sitting Room, with Rita Tushingham and Ralph Richardson. He’s also written extensively for the theatre, such as four plays for the Royal Court Theatre and the jewel in his crown, Crete and Sergeant Pepper.

      In recent years, John has teamed up with scriptwriter Ray Galton to pen two series of Room at the Bottom for СКАЧАТЬ