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

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      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

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