CAIN, Simon
He was born in Orpington in Kent and attended Banstead
Residential School before going off to Australia for schooling. Whilst living in
Perth, selling TV's he became interested in amateur dramatics and upon moving to
Sydney started to appear in small parts on the stage. He eventually moved on to
film and television with productions like The Merchant of Venice and
Once Upon a Mattress. He returned to the UK in 1964 working at St. Martins
Theatre. His other TV work includes Dr Who and Doomwatch. His
Carry On appearances are Short in Cowboy,
Riff in Follow That Camel, Teaboy in
Doctor, Bagpipe player in
Khyber, X-Ray operative in
Again Doctor and Barman in
Convenience.
CANNON, Esma
| Esma adds her unique style of twittering comedy to the Carry On
series in several roles. Her first appearance is in Constable, where she plays a little
old lady, who having just successfully crossed a road one way, is escorting back the way
she has come by an over-eager Kenneth
Williams. In Regardless, she is Sids assistant
at the agency and causes chaos with her new filing system. In Cabby, she plays Flo, a
doddery battleaxe determined to drive her husbands cab. In Cruising she is a
high-spirited passenger who joins in all the activities and is called a mad little
pixie by the Captain. She was born in Australia and came to Britain in the early
Thirties and was cast in many roles, usually as a busybody or maiden aunt. She found a
wider audience when she appeared in The Rag Trade but found her own niche in the Carry
Ons. She Died in 1972. |
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CARGILL, Patrick
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Patrick has been associated with three Carry Ons, two as an actor and one as creator. He
collaborated with Jack Searle in creating the idea on which Nurse was based and he had
small parts in Jack (as Spanish governor Dom Luise) and
Regardless. Cargill was born in London in
1918, training to be an officer in India, before returning to the UK
to enter acting. In World War II he went to India again as an Entertainments
Officer, but eventually returned to the UK to write scripts for the likes of
Time on Their Hands and Ring for Catty. In the 60's he moved
in to TV, with memorable roles in The Prisoner, The Avengers
and his own show Father, Dear Father. His film credits include The
Beatles Help and Up Pompeii. He died in 1996 aged 77. |
CASTLE, Roy
| Roy plays the captain of the British Forces in Up The
Khyber,
Captain Keen, who falls in love with Princess Jelhi, daughter of the Khasi of Kalibar. He
plays the part in a very straight, British manner which enhances the comedy in the
infamous dinner scene when chaos abounds as the officers are sitting down to supper. He
was a multi-talented artiste adept in trumpet-playing and dancing (he holds a tap dancing
world record) and has been in many stage productions such as Pickwick with Harry Secombe
and Singin In The Rain with Tommy Steele. He started as a stooge for Jimmy James but
he is perhaps best remembered for his own TV show Record Breakers. He
died from Lung Cancer in 1994. |
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CHAMBERLAIN, Cyril
Cyril was an indispensable supporting actor in many British films
usually playing a solid dependable character and he appeared as such in Sergeant,
Nurse, Teacher,
Constable, Regardless,
Cruising and Cabby.
CLARY, Julian
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He came to fame as the camp, Joan Collins Fan Club on
Friday Night Live. He has toned down his appearance in recent years
leaving off most of the make-up and dropping his dog, Fanny, from the act.
He has appeared in various TV programmes for example Sticky Moments. He
appears in Columbus as Don Juan Diego, who accompanies Christopher Columbus
(Jim Dale) on his journey to the Americas. |
CLUNES, Martin
| He has a small cameo in Columbus as Martin.
Clunes will be very familiar as Gary in TV's Men Behaving Badly. He has,
in recent years, ventured in film with Staggered, which he also directed and he
is also makes regular guest appearances in Harry Enfield's TV Programme. |
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CONNOR, Jeremy
Jeremy was no stranger to the world of Carry On as his father was
Kenneth Connor, who starred in many of them. Jeremy, himself, made his first appearance in
Nurse when he was just three and a half, as Bernie Bishops (Kenneth
Connor) son. He
later reappeared full grown, as a footpad in Dick, a student watching a film in
Behind and
a gunner in England.
COOMBS, Pat
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Pat is perhaps best known for her roles in TV sitcoms, especially
You Only Live Twice in which she starred with Peggy Mount. She appears in two Carry On
films, first in Doctor, where she plays one of the rebellious patients, and then in
Again Doctor, where she plays the new snooty matron.
She passed away in May 2002 aged 75. |
COPE, Kenneth
| Kenneths first Carry On role is that of the troublesome
shop steward, Vic in At Your Convenience who spends all his time quoting union rules from
his NUKIE handbook. His second Carry On film was Matron, in which he plays the son of a
petty thief, who gets roped in to infiltrating the maternity hospital disguised as a
nurse, where he has to cope with lecherous Doctors and assist in the delivery of triplets.
His other work includes the role of Sonny Jim in Coronation Street, and That Was The Week
That Was. In later years he became famous playing the role of the ghost, Hopkirk in
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). He has also written scripts for TV. |
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CORBETT, Harry H
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Harry H is perhaps best known as Harold from the TV series,
Steptoe and Son, a role he played for 13 years. He appeared only in Carry On
Screaming, as
the inept Detective Inspector Bung, who makes a hash of his investigation into the cases
of several disappearing women, missing clues and relying on dumb luck to solve the case.
He was awarded on OBE in 1976 and died in 1982. |
CRAWFORD, Howard Marion
He plays a small cameo part in Regardless where he is one of the
wine tasters, but he is perhaps best known for his radio work, at which he was known as
the man with the thousand voices. He died in 1969.