The Complete A–Z of Everything Carry On

She died in 1972, aged seventy-six.

CAPTAIN HOOK

The cheeky parrot is owned by the Bird Owner in Regardless.

CAPTAIN OF SOLDIERS

Played by Richard Shaw

Seen in Don’t Lose Your Head, the Captain is instructed by Citizen Camembert to guard Jacqueline night and day.

CAR SALESMAN

Played by Peter Jesson

The salesman at Peacocks of Balham sells fifteen Ford Cortinas to Peggy Hawkins when she launches the Glamcab taxi business.

CARDEW, JANE

Role: Henry’s 2nd Wife in Henry (Note: scene was cut.)

Born in Redhill, Surrey, in 1944, Jane Cardew left school and headed for Paris to study French at college before returning to England in 1966 and starting a career in the theatre, initially as an acting assistant stage manager at Hornchurch Rep. She completed summer seasons and worked as stage manager at Chichester Festival Theatre and three years at the Greenwich Theatre. Later, she worked as stage manager for various opera companies.

During her twenties she accepted modelling assignments between acting jobs, and later in her career television and film roles came her way including episodes of Jason King and The Bill.

She retired from acting in 1983 to look after her children but now works as a freelance proof reader and copy editor.

CARGILL, PATRICK

Roles: Raffish Customer in Regardless and Spanish Governor in Jack. Also, the script for Nurse was based on an idea submitted by Cargill and Jack Beale

Born in London in 1918, Patrick Cargill trained at Sandhurst for a military career and went to India to work as an officer in the Indian Army before returning to England to pursue an acting career.

During World War Two he travelled again to India, this time as an entertainments officer after which, back in Britain, he acted in repertory theatre and wrote plays and scripts, staging comedies including Time On Their Hands and Ring for Catty in the mid-1950s.

In the 1960s, Patrick moved into roles in television and film, with parts in television programmes Top Secret, The Avengers, The Prisoner and The Georges Feydeau Farces and then his own comedy show Father, Dear Father which ran for six years and was followed by another successful show The Many Wives of Patrick.

His film credits included Around the World in Eighty Days, Up the Creek, the Beatles’ film Help, A Countess from Hong Kong, Up Pompeii and Barnet.

During the 1980s and ’90s, Cargill, who still acted occasionally in the West End alongside his screen work, returned to the stage wholeheartedly, performing in productions such as Key For Two, HMS Pinafore and Captain Beaky and writing and touring with the play Don’t Misunderstand Me.

He died in 1996, aged seventy-seven.

CARLIN, JOHN

Roles: Officer in England and French Parson in Emmannuelle

TV: The Baron Outlook, Orgy and Bess, One in the Eye for Harold, The Nine Old Cobblers, The Case of the Screaming Winkles and Lamp Posts of the Empire

John Carlin, now retired, worked in television and films from the 1950s, appearing in shows such as Dixon of Dock Green, The Troubleshooters, Hadleigh and Nanny. He had semi-regular roles as the barman in Man About the House, the House of Commons Speaker in The New Statesman and Reverend Spink in The Darling Buds of May. His film work includes the 1977 production, Holocaust 2000.

The Spanish Governor (Patrick Cargill) has his hands full (Jack)

CAROL

Played by Sherrie Hewson

In Behind she arrives at the Riverside Caravan Site by bike with her friend, Sandra. They hoped to camp at the site but are disappointed to find only caravans are allowed, that is until Sandra shows a bit of leg to the owner, Major Leep, and suggests she might need a massage later to aid her aching leg; the sight of flesh sees the Major bending the rules to accommodate the girls. Others who take a fancy to the girls include Fred and Ernie, two middle-aged men enjoying a short break away from their wives, but the girls are more interested in the students from the University of Kidburn who are helping Professor Crump with his archaeological dig.

CARON, SANDRA

Role: Fanny in Camping

Sister of popular British singer Alma Cogan, actress Sandra Caron has worked both sides of the Atlantic during a career which began on stage. She entered television in the 1950s and appeared in various programmes, including Dixon of Dock Green and Suspense. In the ’70s she was seen in America working on shows such as Charlie’s Angels and The Odd Couple, but her longest-running role saw her playing Mumsie/Auntie Sabrina for three years in Channel 4’s The Crystal Maze. One of her more recent jobs was playing a farmer’s wife in the 1992 TV movie, To Be the Best.

Her film career, which started in the late 1950s, includes credits such as Sea Wife; The Leather Boys; The Bliss of Mrs Blossom; Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World and The Dicktator.

CARRIER

Played by Jim Dale

In Jack, the Carrier takes Midshipman Poop-Decker to the docks in Plymouth; he also recommends visiting Dirty Dick’s if Poop-Decker is in need of entertainment.

CARROLL, EDWINA

Role: Nerda in Up the Jungle

Edwina Carroll entered films and television in the 1950s. Her TV work includes appearances in White Hunter, The Troubleshooters, Department S, Paul Temple and UFO. On the big screen, she’s been seen in films such as A Town Like Alice, Yesterday’s Enemy, Genghis Khan and 2001: A Space Odyssey.

CARRYOONS, THE

In production at the time of writing, the idea behind the Carryoons was conceived in 1999 when Ken Burns approached Peter Rogers with an idea to produce twenty-six half-hour cartoons based around the legendary characters in the films. With Rogers’ backing, Burns – who’d edited ITV’s documentary, What’s A Carry On?, celebrating forty years of the film canon – began working on a pilot episode. Although the idea wasn’t to remake the films, it was agreed to kick-off by basing the pilot around a familiar premise – Camping.

Once the pilot, titled Carryoon Camping, was complete, it was taken to the MIP COM 2001, Europe’s biggest TV market, in Cannes to try and attract interest from within the industry. Although, as yet, the pilot has yet to be transmitted, further episodes in the series are currently being made.

CARSON, MR

The unseen headmaster at Maudlin Street Secondary Modern School. While he’s absent from the school, his deputy, Mr Wakefield, steps into the breach. His name is mentioned in Teacher.

CARSTAIRS

Played by Jim Dale

In Spying, Carstairs is the Vienna-based agent who sends a coded message to the Director of Security Operations explaining that Milchmann, a wanted man since blowing up Professor Stark and stealing a secret formula, has arrived in the city. Carstairs later follows him to Algiers but attempts to retrieve the formula are foiled by the bumbling Simkins and his team.

CARRY ON CAMPING

Alternative title … Let Sleeping Bags Lie

A Peter Rogers production

Distributed through Rank Organisation

Released as an A certificate in 1969 in colour

Running time: 88 mins

CAST

Sidney James Sid BoggleKenneth Williams Dr Kenneth SoaperJoan Sims Joan FusseyCharles Hawtrey Charlie MugginsTerry Scott Peter PotterBarbara Windsor BabsBernard Bresslaw Bernie LuggHattie Jacques Miss HaggerdPeter Butterworth Josh FiddlerJulian Holloway Jim TannerDilys Laye Anthea MeeksBetty Marsden Harriet PotterTrisha Noble SallyAmelia Bayntun Mrs FusseyBrian Oulton Store ManagerPatricia Franklin Farmer’s DaughterDerek Francis FarmerMichael Nightingale Man in CinemaSandra Caron FannyGeorge Moon Scrawny ManValerie Shute PatElizabeth Knight JaneGeorgina Moon JoyVivien Lloyd VernaJennifer Pyle HildaLesley Duff NormaJackie Poole BettyAnna Karen Hefty GirlSally Kemp Girl with CowValerie Leon Store AssistantPeter Cockburn CommentatorGilly Grant Sally G-StringMichael Low Mike Lucas Lusty Youths

PRODUCTION TEAM

Screenplay by Talbot Rothwell

Music composed and conducted by Eric Rogers

Production Manager: Jack Swinburne

Art Director: Lionel Couch

Editor: Alfred Roome

Director of Photography: Ernest Steward BSC

Assistant Editor: Jack Gardner

Camera Operator: James Bawden

Assistant Director: Jack Causey

Continuity: Doreen Dernley

Sound Recordists: Bill Daniels and Ken Barker

Make-up: Geoffrey Rodway

Hairdresser: Stella Rivers

Costume Designer: Yvonne Caffin

Dubbing Editor: Colin Miller

Title sketches by ‘Larry’

Producer: Peter Rogers

Director: Gerald Thomas

Charles Hawtrey on set with his mother

Sid Boggle and Bernie Lugg take their girlfriends, Joan and Anthea, to the cinema to watch a film about nudists at a holiday camp; the girls are not amused and find the film offensive but it doesn’t stop Sid and Bernie secretly planning to take them there on holiday.

They decide the best course of action is to remain tight-lipped about the destination chosen for the camping holiday, but by the time they arrive at the site in Devon, the girls have twigged where they’ve heard the name Paradise Camp and want to head home; but after driving for hours, Sid tells them they’re going in. He’s soon disappointed, though, when everyone is walking around fully-clothed and he realises he’s picked the wrong site.

Other campers at the site include the Potters, who arrive on their tandem for yet another stint in the muddy fields of Paradise, much to the reluctance of Peter, who’s not only fed up with camping but with his wife, too. Charlie Muggins, meanwhile, is an irritant who’s forever scrounging off fellow campers, while a coachload of girls from Chayste Place, a finishing school, bring smiles to the faces of Sid Boggins and Bernie Lugg, who feel they’re not making much progress with their girlfriends. They begin flirting with Babs and Fanny, but attempts to lure them into their tents are continually scuppered.

Meanwhile, Peter Potter becomes a changed man. After turning to the bottle through sheer frustration with life, a chance encounter sees him invited to the tent of the promiscuous Jane, one of the schoolgirls; the experience works wonders and he asserts himself on his domineering wife; after throwing Charlie Muggins out of the tent, which he’s been sharing since arriving at the camp site, he drags his wife inside for a bit of nooky.

Kenneth Williams was a crucial part of the Carry Ons

Sid (Sid James) and Jim (Julian Holloway) don hippy gear and wreak havoc with the electrics

Over in Sid and Bernie’s tent, they’re waiting for Babs and Fanny to arrive, but when loud music is heard in the adjoining field, they rush to investigate and find the girls enjoying themselves at an all-nite rave. Eventually the campers drive the hippies away, but the girls go, too. Sid and Bernie, however, realise they don’t need Babs and Fanny when they’ve got Joan and Anthea, but first they have to deal with the arrival of Mrs Fussey, who’s worried about her daughter’s well-being.

CARSTAIRS, MAJOR

Played by Peter Butterworth

Accompanies the Brigadier when he visits the experimental 1313 anti-aircraft battery to see how Captain Melly, who’s recently taken charge of the base in England, is surviving.

CARTER, CYRIL

Played by Kenneth Cope

Cyril, who’s seen in Matron, was only six when his mother, Gertie, died. He promised her he’d follow in his father’s footsteps by becoming a small-time crook, but later claims he hardly knew what he wanted from life at that stage because he was only a kid. When offered a job in insurance, he seriously considers accepting until his father makes him feel guilty about breaking the promise made to his mother.

When his father believes he can earn a packet selling the Pill abroad, Cyril reluctantly agrees to don a nurse’s outfit and pretend to be a student at the Finisham Maternity Hospital in order to find plans of the building. Whilst there, he rooms with Susan Ball, a nurse who eventually realises what he’s up to. When the plan fails, he decides to settle down with Susan and quit his life of crime.

CARTER, GERTIE

Gertie died when her son, Cyril, was just six. Her name is mentioned by Sid, her husband, in Matron when he’s trying to persuade Cyril to help with a job involving stealing pills from Finisham Maternity Hospital.

CARTER, PRIVATE

Played by Barbara Hampshire

Based at the experimental 1313 anti-aircraft battery featured in England, she’s one of the shirkers who suffers a severe shock to the system when the tough-speaking Captain Melly is placed in charge of the unit.

CARTER, SID

Played by Sidney James

Leader of a small group of criminals who decides to steal contraceptive pills from Finisham Maternity Hospital and sell them overseas. Sid, who’s seen in Matron, has been a widower since the death of his wife, Gertie. Their son, Cyril, is a reluctant member of Sid’s gang.

CARVER, DR FREDERICK

Played by Kenneth Williams

A top surgeon in Again Doctor who’s employed at the Long Hampton Hospital. Rather haughty, he longs for a private clinic of his own and dreams of one day running the Frederick Carver Foundation, where he can milk his rich private patients of all their money. He deviously turns his attention to Ellen Moore, a lonely widow who’s swimming in money, to finance his dream; the trouble is, she’s looking for more than just a business partnership. Inexperienced in matters of courtship, Carver turns to the sex-mad Dr Nookey for help with some chat-up lines ready for the hospital’s grand buffet and dance, but the evening is anything but a success for Carver in his pursuit of Moore’s purse.

To satisfy Mrs Moore, Carver finds an ideal candidate – Dr Nookey – to take up the post of doctor at her medical mission in the distant Beatific Islands, but when Gladstone Screwer, the mission orderly, later reports that Nookey is failing in his duty, Carver placates Ellen by agreeing to visit the islands and establish what’s going on; in doing so, he nearly loses his life when the schooner, Bella Vista, founders off the islands during a torrential storm. By the time he returns home, life has moved on and Mrs Moore is in partnership with none other than Dr Nookey, who’s rolling in dosh since returning from the Beatific Islands with a cure for obesity, earning him millions.

At first jealous, Carver dreams up an idea, utilising his colleague Dr Stoppidge in disguise as a woman, to unearth the actual ingredients of the serum used by Nookey at his clinic. His plans backfire big-time but it’s not long before he’s a partner in the Moore-Nookey-Gladstone-Carver Clinic offering not just a miracle cure for obesity but sex change treatment, too.

CASLEY, ALAN

Role: Kindly Seaman in Cruising

Alan Casley’s other screen credits saw him play a barman in a 1962 episode of The Avengers.

CASTLE, FLO

Played by Dilys Laye

A passenger on the Happy Wanderer in Cruising. She’s on the cruise with her friend, Glad Trimble, and is hoping, with her mate’s help, to net a husband. She hopes it will be the ship’s PT instructor, Mr Jenkins, but knows that is wishful thinking. Eventually she falls in love with the vessel’s doctor, Arthur Binn.

CASTLE, ROY

Role: Captain Keene in Up The Khyber

The multi-talented Roy Castle, son of an insurance agent, was born in Scholes, West Yorkshire, in 1932. He harboured dreams of playing cricket for Yorkshire, but gave them up for a career in entertainment, initially learning to dance and play instruments.

After completing national service in the RAF, he tried his luck as an entertainer, joining a musical troupe of clowns. He moved on to work with Jimmy Clitheroe and Jimmy James, both popular performers from the era, before going it alone and entertaining at music halls, primarily on the northern club circuit.

By the 1960s, Castle was regarded as one of the nation’s top all-round entertainers. He also did occasional acting, appearing on Broadway in Pickwick and, later, at the Palladium in Singing in the Rain. On the big screen he was seen in, among others, Dr Who and the Daleks and Dr Terror’s House of Horrors, while on television his credits included The Roy Castle Show and Record Breakers.

In 1992 he was diagnosed with lung cancer, despite never having smoked. He died in 1994, aged sixty-two.

CAUSEY, JACK

Assistant Director on Regardless, Cruising, Don’t Lose Your Head, Camping, Up the Jungle, Girls and England

Jack Causey began working as an assistant director in the 1950s on films such as Innocents in Paris, The Captain’s Paradise, Third Party Risk, Conflict of Wings, The Baby and the Battleship, The Silent Enemy, Sink the Bismarck!, Sands of the Kalahari, At the Earth’s Core and his final film, 1976’s The Slipper and the Rose. As a production manager he was assigned to, among others, The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins, For the Love of Ada and the big screen version of Doomwatch.

CAUSEY, J.

The unseen Third Officer on the Happy Wanderer in Cruising. His name is seen on the crew list and is obviously a reference to the film’s assistant director.

CAVEMAN

Played by Michael Nightingale

Seen in Cleo warning other cavemen, including Horsa and Hengist who are chatting outside their caves, that the Romans are coming.

CECIL, THE JUNGLE BOY

Played by Terry Scott

Seen in Up the Jungle, Cecil spends his formative years living in the jungle, just like Tarzan. Soon after he was born, his father took his wife on a belated honeymoon to the African jungle. Tragedy struck when Walter Bagley took Cecil for an early morning walk along the banks of the Limpopo River and neither were seen again. When her husband’s fob watch was discovered inside a crocodile’s stomach, and an abandoned nappy found on the riverbank, Mrs Bagley feared the worst.

Years later, desperate to find her baby’s missing nappy pin as something to remember him by, she returns to the jungle; what she doesn’t realise is that Cecil is alive, and although he can only grunt, he’s fit and healthy. When the Jungle Boy happens to enter her tent one night, Lady Bagley discovers he has a big, silver safety pin holding his loincloth together; suddenly realising it’s her long-lost boy, she’s desperate to bring him home, and after various ordeals manages to achieve her goal. The trouble is, he’s unable to rid himself of his jungle habits: although he’s a quick learner and soon holding down a respectable job in the City, he never wears shoes or socks and prefers living in a treehouse in London with his wife, June, formerly Lady Bagley’s maid, and their new-born child.

CHAMBERLAIN, CYRIL

Roles: Gun Sergeant in Sergeant, Bert Able in Nurse, Alf in Teacher, Thurston in Constable, Policeman in Regardless, Tom Tree in Cruising and Sarge in Cabby

A veteran of stage and screen, Cyril Chamberlain was born in London in 1909 and became a busy character actor for over four decades.

Often cast in small parts, he always made full use of his screen time, acting with a presence befitting much larger roles. Frequently seen playing policemen or middle-ranked soldiers, he entered films in the late 1930s, notching up over a hundred credits, including A Stolen Life, Poison Pen, My Brother’s Keeper, London Belongs to Me, Once a Jolly Swagman, Quartet, Stop Press Girl, Lady Godiva Rides Again, Above Us the Waves and Operation Bullshine. He also appeared in several Norman Wisdom and St Trinian’s films.

He occasionally worked on television in such productions as Stryker of the Yard, Ivanhoe, William Tell, The Saint and Danger Man.

He died in 1974, aged sixty-five.

Cyril Chamberlain (far left) was a reliable character actor of stage and screen (Constable)

CHAPLAIN

Played by Peter Jones

Seen in Doctor. Sporting a hearing aid, he conducts the wedding ceremony for Francis Bigger and the equally deaf Chloe Gibson, which makes for a frustrating affair.

CHAPPELL, NORMAN

Roles: Allbright in Cabby and 1st Plotter in Henry. (Note: also cast as Mr Thrush in Loving but scene cut.)

TV: Orgy and Bess; One in the Eye for Harold; The Case of the Screaming Winkles; The Case of the Coughing Parrot; Under the Round Table; Short Knight, Long Daze and Lamp Posts of the Empire

Norman Chappell, who was born in the Indian city of Lucknow, arrived in the UK aged four. Son of a professional soldier, he broke with tradition and pursued a theatrical career, but not before serving for a time with the RAF, and holding down various jobs, including cook in a police canteen.

His first taste of acting was during his RAF days; upon deciding it was the career for him, he enrolled at the Italia Conti Stage School. Circumstances, however, forced him to leave prematurely, but it never affected his progress in the profession, which saw him work in all media.

On television he was seen playing several characters in The Avengers, and appeared in Bless This House, Mr Aitch, Mr Digby Darling, Whoops Baghdad!, Sez Les, Danger UXB and Doctor’s Daughters, while on the big screen he popped up in several films during the 1960s and ’70s, such as Jigsaw, Crooks in Cloisters, How I Won the War, Up the Creek, Nearest and Dearest, Love Thy Neighbour, The Four Musketeers and Intimate Games.

He died of a heart attack in 1983.

CHARLES (EARL OF BRISTOL)

Played by Peter Butterworth

The Earl of Bristol has been ambassador at the Spanish court for some time before returning with his two attractive daughters, one of whom is blonde Bettina. He’s seen briefly in Henry arriving with his girls at Henry VIII’s do.