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

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СКАЧАТЬ Hell Drivers, Rockets Galore!, A Tale of Two Cities and Too Many Crooks. He worked regularly until the mid-70s, with later credits such as the big-screen version of hit sitcom Bless This House and in 1976, his last film, The Slipper and the Rose.

      DANIELS, DANNY

      Role: Nosha Chief in Up the Jungle

      Other screen credits for Danny Daniels include the television shows White Hunter, The Saint and Man in a Suitcase as well as films such as Passionate Summer, Murder Club, Prehistoric Women and The Oblong Box.

      DANIELS, PENNY

      Continuity on Nurse, Cruising, Cabby, Jack, Spying and Screaming!

      Working in continuity from the 1950s, Penny Daniels’ long list of film credits include Tiger in the Smoke, A Night to Remember, The Captain’s Table, The League of Gentlemen, Whistle Down the Wind, Séance on a Wet Afternoon, Where Eagles Dare, The Medusa Touch and two Bond movies, Octopussy and A View to a Kill.

      DANN, DAN

      Played by Charles Hawtrey

      Works as a lavatory attendant at the public conveniences outside the entrance to Hocombe Park. Formerly employed at the Bide-a-Wee Rest Home, near Hocombe Woods, as a gardener before securing the job which comes with free accommodation! He sadly meets an unfortunate end when he’s drowned in one of his own toilets. Olando and Virula Watt, the residents of Bide-a-Wee Rest Home, become concerned that he’ll spill the beans to the police about the goings-on at their eerie house, so they despatch Odbodd to do their dirty deeds. (Note: in an early version of the script, Dan was to be Doris Mann’s father.)

      DANN, LARRY

      Roles: Boy in Teacher, Clive in Behind, Gunner Shaw in England and Theodore Valentine in Emmannuelle

      Born in London in 1941, Larry Dann joined the Corona Stage School from the age of eleven. Just like his opening performance in the Carry Ons, his screen debut, back in 1949, saw him cast as a schoolboy in Rank’s movie, Adam and Evelyn, with Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons. While studying at stage school he appeared as an extra in several pictures, including The Million Pound Note, Trouble in Store and The Bulldog Breed.

      He left Corona aged twenty-one and joined Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop in London’s Stratford East, appearing in the original production of Oh What A Lovely War, marking the beginning of a fruitful stage career. Over the years he’s performed with numerous repertory companies and in plenty of West End productions, while his small screen work includes playing Elsie Tanner’s son, Dennis, in Florizel Street, the pilot episode of Coronation Street and Sergeant Alec Peters in The Bill for eight years.

       MEMORIES

      ‘I made my debut as a schoolkid in Teacher. Most of the kids were from the Corona Academy School, including myself, and I remember having a great time. It was terribly sad, though, because a scene I was in ended up being cut. For me, it was one of the best moments on the studio set because I got a huge round of applause after finishing it. It was during the orchestra scene. The orchestra went into a jazz number and it all became chaotic. I was on the drums, playing a stupid, dumb boy, and went bananas. Suddenly it was cut out of the film and I assume lost on the cutting-room floor. But I had a great time with all my mates.

      ‘I hadn’t appeared in a Carry On for what seemed like 150 years when I was offered a role in Behind. I got into that one purely because in those days I used to do a lot of commercials and a few months before Behind started, I went to film a commercial and Gerald Thomas was directing it. I walked into the room and he said: “Hello, Larry, long time no see.” He then went on to say: “You’re not right for this commercial, but I want you for the next Carry On.” I thought to myself, “Oh yes, I’ll believe that when it happens.” But a week later I was in it!’

       LARRY DANN

      DARCY DE PUE, LORD

      Played by Jim Dale

      A friend of Sir Rodney Ffing, he is saddened to hear of the plight of so many French men and women; since the revolution across the channel, the aristocracy are losing their heads to the guillotine at an alarming rate and the brave Darcy, accompanied by Ffing, sets out to snatch the victims from the brink of death via a series of audacious ruses and artful disguises. Seen in Don’t Lose Your Head.

      DARCY, MAUREEN

      Played by Carol Wyler

      One of the beauty contestants rushed on stage during the itching powder fiasco in Girls.

      DARK, GREGORY

      Assistant Director on Emmannuelle

      DARLING, JANE

      Played by Valerie Leon

      The film star gives birth to triplets in the back of the ambulance during Matron. Even more remarkable, though, is that Cyril Carter, dressed up as a nurse, administered the delivery because Dr Prodd, who should have been doing the job, was knocked out after having an injection accidentally pushed into his backside.

      DARLING, MR

      Played by Robin Hunter

      Jane Darling’s husband who waves his wife goodbye during Matron before heading back inside his house for a bit of fun with the shapely au pair.

      DARVEY, DIANA

      Role: Maureen in Behind

      Born in Richmond, Surrey, in 1945, Diana Darvey followed her mother – who topped the bill at the Windmill Theatre during the war years – into showbusiness. Originally starting out as a singer and dancer, her early career was spent working with Miss Joan Baron’s Ballet in Madrid; spotted by former musical revue artist Celia Gomez, who groomed her to become England’s first female star in Spanish light entertainment. She later won more plaudits as leading lady to Spanish revue artistes Luis Cuenca and Pedro Pena in Barcelona. Three years later, she returned to Madrid’s Teatro Alcazar as the star attraction.

      In the 1970s she was working on British television, making occasional appearances in shows such as sitcom And Mother Makes Five, starring Wendy Craig. She also played various character roles in several series of The Benny Hill Show. For many years continued to lead a successful career in cabaret at the Savoy and other top venues.

      She died in 2000, aged fifty-four.

      DAVENPORT, CLAIRE

      Role: Blonde in Pub in Emmannuelle

      Born in Sale, Cheshire, in 1933, Claire Davenport was the archetypal character actress, often seen playing a host of battleaxes, from fearsome traffic wardens to overbearing wives.

      After grammar school she trained as a teacher at Liverpool’s St Catherine’s College and subsequently taught at a school in Salford. Always a keen amateur actress, she spent her evenings performing with various local companies before, in 1960, deciding to swap careers.

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