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

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      BRADLEY, JOSIE

      Role: Pianist in Loving

      Josie Bradley’s other work includes an appearance as Freda in the 1947 film, The Mysterious Mr Nicholson, and Mildred Knottage in a 1969 episode of the television series Detective.

      BRAGG, ERNIE

      Played by Bernard Bresslaw

      One of Sid Carter’s gang in Matron, the gormless Ernie Bragg was born on top of the number seventy-three bus in the middle of Brixton High Street.

      BRAGG, ERNIE

      Played by Jack Douglas

      An electrician who holidays with his friend, Fred Ramsden, in Behind. When their respective wives decide on a break in a health farm, Fred persuades the easily-led Ernie to accompany him to the Riverside Caravan Site under the guise of a fishing trip. What Fred hopes they will catch, though, is a couple of birds – and not the feathery kind! They’re out of luck, although not through lack of trying, which is just as well because their wives eventually turn up at the camp site. Although they’d sent a telegram to inform their husbands of their arrival, the message never reached Fred and Ernie.

      BRAGG, VERA

      Played by Patricia Franklin

      When her husband, Ernie, heads off in a caravan to the Riverside Caravan Site with his close friend, Fred Ramsden, Vera opts for a health farm with Fred’s wife, Sylvia. They eventually surprise their husbands by turning up at the caravan site unannounced. They had sent a telegram informing their husbands of their impending arrival, but the message never reached Fred and Ernie.

      BRAKES, DAWN

      Played by Margaret Nolan

      The former Miss Dairy Queen is one of the contestants in the Miss Fircombe beauty contest in Girls. First seen sharing the same train compartment as Peter Potter, who’s also travelling to Fircombe to organise publicity for the event; just before the train moves out of the station the carriage jolts forward and Peter accidentally rips Dawn’s skimpy top, revealing her ample bosom, much to his fiancée’s disgust. A model by profession, she poses for dirty mags, and asks Lawrence, the rather green local photographer, to take some snaps of her naked on the beach.

      BRAMBELL, WILFRID

      Role: Mr Pullen in Again Doctor

      Wilfrid Brambell, born in Dublin in 1912, will forever be remembered for his fine portrayal of Albert Steptoe in fifty-nine episodes of BBC’s classic sitcom. Brambell’s father worked in a brewery while his mother was an opera singer. His first performance was as a two-year-old entertaining wounded troops during the Great War.

      Upon leaving school he worked as a cub reporter for The Irish Times during the day and part-time actor at the Abbey Theatre in the evenings. He later took the plunge and turned professional after securing a job at Dublin’s Gate Theatre.

      During the Second World War he toured with ENSA, and afterwards appeared in numerous reps including Bristol, Bromley and Chesterfield, before working in the West End and on Broadway.

      His television work included Life with the Lyons, the 1950s sci-fi series, The Quatermass Experiment and No Fixed Abode, while his film credits include The 39 Steps, The Three Lives of Thomasina, A Hard Day’s Night, Where the Bullets Fly and Holiday on the Buses.

      He died in 1985.

      BRAY, HENRY

      Played by Brian Oulton

      Bray is rather ostentatious with his claims of grandeur. During his stay at the Haven Hospital in Nurse, he tells fellow patients a pack of lies, such as owning a house on the expensive west side of the Common. It’s only when his wife, Rhoda, visits that we learn the truth, although Henry is constantly trying to shut her up in case she’s overheard.

      BRAY, KEN

      Stills Cameraman on England and Emmannuelle

      Ken Bray’s other credits as a stills cameraman include the 1978 film, The Playbirds.

      BRAY, RHODA

      Played by Hilda Fenemore

      Seen in Nurse, Rhoda visits her husband, Henry, while he’s recuperating at Haven Hospital, but spends the entire visiting period embarrassing her beloved who’s trying to make out he’s something he isn’t.

      BRAYSHAW, DEBORAH

      Role: French Buxom Blonde in Emmannuelle

      An occasional actress during the 1970s, she was seen playing a technician in an episode of Doctor Who, as well as an episode of Special Branch. On the big screen, she appeared as a go-cart girl in Confessions from a Holiday Camp.

      BREGONZI, ALEC

      Role: 1st Storeman in Sergeant. (Note: Also played a Beach Photographer in At Your Convenience but the scene was cut.)

      London-born Alec Bregonzi’s professional acting career began, like many of his contemporaries’, in repertory theatre in the mid-1950s. In venues at Farnham, York, Bromley and Leatherhead he learnt the ropes of the profession before West End opportunities came his way, including parts in Camino Real and understudying Ronnie Barker.

      While his theatre career progressed, offers to appear on television came his way, including parts in the small-screen version of Hancock’s Half Hour. During the 1970s and ’80s, he worked with a host of comedians, including Cannon and Ball, Kenny Everett and Little and Large. Other credits during this period range from The Two Ronnies, Filthy Rich and Catflap and London’s Burning to The Barchester Chronicles, Great Expectations and The Recruiting Officer. For four years he read viewers’ letters on BBC’s Points of View, presented by Barry Took, which spawned a radio series, Joke by Joke. More recently, he supplied many voices for the 1990s animated children’s series, The Treacle People.

      Bregonzi has also appeared in a handful of films, such as Face of a Stranger, Ricochet, Downfall from the Edgar Wallace series, and Revenge of the Pink Panther. Sadly, one of his best parts was in a French film, L’Etincelle, which has never been screened in Britain. He’s also done a lot of theatre work, including several plays for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

      BRENNAN, J.

      The unseen Second Officer on the Happy Wanderer in Cruising. His name is seen on the crew list.

       MEMORIES

      ‘Alas, my memories of Carry On Sergeant are few and not happy ones. I was one of the storemen who had a little scene with most of the principals. Mine was with Gerald Campion, with whom I’d worked in a stage version of Billy Bunter at the Victoria Palace.

      ‘We rehearsed the scene in Sergeant, which was a two-shot, and as the director walked away Gerry told me to change position slightly, СКАЧАТЬ