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

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СКАЧАТЬ do you ever take a young maid into the fields for a bit of dalliance?

      YOUNG MAN: I’m going tonight.

      HAMPTON: Knowing that with S.E.T. you’ve got to pay up for every little kiss and cuddle? No! Let’s have it off, I say!

      YOUNG MAN: I intend to!

       (Another laugh.)

      HAMPTON: Then you’re a fool! Friends, I appeal to you! If the basic simple pleasures of life are to be taxed where’s it going to end? Soon we’ll be paying just to have a good scratch! We’ve got to put a stop to S.E.T. now!

      HECKLER: How?

      HAMPTON: Simple! Keep away from the women! Go on strike! Down tools!

       (There are some ‘Hear hears’ and murmurs of approval from the crowd now.)

       (C.S. of two dandies, looking on dispassionately. One looks to the other petulantly.)

      DANDY: Oh come on, Cedric. It doesn’t affect us.

      DANDY DESMOND

      A fictitious name Captain Fancey adopts while travelling incognito trying to track down Dick Turpin in Dick.

      DANE, ALEXANDRA

      Roles: Female Instructor in Doctor, Busti in Up The Khyber, Stout Woman in Again Doctor, Emily in Loving and Lady in Low-cut Dress in Behind. (Note: Also had uncredited role in At Your Convenience but scene cut.)

      Born in Bethlehem, South Africa, in 1946, Alexandra Dane always wanted to be a ballerina but her mother steered her towards an acting career. After graduating from Cape Town University with a degree and diploma in drama, she headed for England in the mid-1960s to begin her acting career.

      Her first post was assistant stage manager at Bognor Regis, before progressing to juvenile lead and moving on to other reps. Theatre has dominated Dane’s career and during the 1960s she formed her own company, the Cambridge Shakespeare Group, and toured South Africa, affording her the chance to direct.

      Her screen career has seen her appear in films such as Corruption, Confessions of a Handyman and, in 1977, Jabberwocky, while her small-screen credits include The Saint, Hazell and The Tripods, as well as semi-regular characters in Not On Your Nellie, Alas Smith and Jones and The Doctors.

      In 1981, she formed her own puppet company, Pom Pom Puppets, and performed around the world, including Tenerife and India. After recently buying a farm in Spain, Dane, who’s retired from acting, is considering relaunching her puppet shows in the country.

       MEMORIES

      ‘My first role was playing an instructor in Doctor, running antenatal classes. I was told to improvise but didn’t know anything about pre-natal in those days so I got them lifting their legs up and down. I’ve had children since then and know it’s one of the last things you’d do at antenatal class; any medical person would have been going mad!

      ‘One of the nice things about the Carry On films is that when they’d used you once, if they liked you it could lead to other parts, which is what happened to me. Along came Up the Khyber and I was offered the part of Busti.

      ‘I’ll always remember Nora Rodway, who was helping her husband, Geoff, with the make-up. I had to use a lot of body make-up but in those days you didn’t have these quick-tan methods, so Nora had to put it on with a sponge and water, and she had to do it every morning because I had so much of my body showing in Up the Khyber. I’ll always remember her saying: “This is like distempering a small room!” She pleaded with me not to bath each evening because I’d keep washing this water-based liquid off and she’d have to go through the job each morning.

      ‘In Again Doctor I had a nasty accident and suffered back problems for some time after. I was leaning back on a machine made to look like it was out of control and it came out of the floor resulting in me going to hospital.

      ‘Working on the Carry Ons was the happiest, happiest experience. Even when thinking about all the other bits and pieces I did in movies and on tele, I can’t remember being happier because everyone was so sweet to you. I adored them all, it was like being part of a big family. It’s extraordinary that after appearing in Shakespeare and rep, which I was doing when I appeared in the Carry Ons, I’m remembered for small parts in those films; I’d never have believed it. They were lovely films to work on.’

       ALEXANDRA DANE

      DANGLE, MRS

      Played by Joan Sims

      Emile Prevert’s housekeeper-cum-cook in Emmannuelle. A widow since the death of her husband, Henry, Mrs Dangle takes care of the French Ambassador’s culinary needs.

      DANIEL, DANNY

      Sound Recordist on Henry, At Your Convenience, Matron, Dick, Behind, England, That’s Carry On and Emmannuelle

      Working as a sound recordist from the late 1960s, his various screen credits include Kidnapped, Nothing But the Night, Diamonds On Wheels and, in 1985, Murder Elite.

      DANIEL, J. W. N.

      Sound Recordist on Loving

      Working as a boom operator on the 1957 film, Miracle in Soho, J. W. N. Daniel was credited as a sound recordist from the 1970s on films such as The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes and Revenge.

      DANIELLE, SUZANNE

      Role: Emmannuelle Prevert in Emmannuelle

      Born in London in 1955, Suzanne Danielle grew up in Romford, Essex, where she attended the famous Bush Davies School between the age of seven and sixteen; it was here that she nurtured not only her love of acting but dancing, too. She gained experience of the stage at Hornchurch Rep before joining the cast of Billy, starring Michael Crawford. After four weeks in Manchester, the play moved into the West End.

      Soon after appearing in Billy, Danielle was seen on the big screen in The Prince and the Pauper, while other credits include The Wild Geese, Golden Lady, Long Shot, The Stud, Flash Gordon, Arabian Adventure (as a dancer) and, one of her last films, The Boys in Blue, in 1987.

      On the small screen, meanwhile, she enjoyed a busy period between the late 1970s and late ’80s when she was seen in several television series, such as The Professionals, The Generation Game, Doctor Who, Hammer House of Horror, Tales of the Unexpected, Strangers and the Morecambe and Wise Show.

      In the late 1980s she married golfer Sam Torrance and quit showbusiness.

      DANIELS, BILL

      Sound recordist on Nurse, Constable, Cruising, Cabby, Jack, Spying, Cleo, Camping and Again Doctor

      Bill Daniels began working as a sound recordist СКАЧАТЬ