The Complete A–Z of Everything Carry On

CHARLIE

Played by Percy Herbert

A barman at Belle’s Place, he remains in the job when Johnny Finger arrives in Stodge City and starts throwing his weight around, including taking over the hotel-cum-bar and renaming it Rumpo’s Place. He soon becomes Rumpo’s sidekick but ends up being shot accidentally by Annie Oakley. Seen in Cowboy.

CHARLIE PLATOON

Sergeant O’Brien’s platoon at Heathercrest National Service Depot in Sergeant.

CHAUFFEUR

Played by Frank Forsyth

This miserable-looking chauffeur is seen in Cabby waiting at a junction. Charlie Hawkins turns up in his cab, spots the sour-faced driver and asks him where the funeral is.

CHAYSTE PLACE

A finishing school, set in a sumptuous building, for young ladies. Seen in Camping, its principal is Dr Kenneth Soaper while the headmistress is Miss Haggerd.

CHEF

Played by Leon Greene

A monster of a man, the chef works at the Brighton hotel where the employees of W. C. Boggs and Son, out on their annual jolly, were intending to eat lunch. A strike, though, puts paid to their plans, infuriating, ironically, Vic Spanner, one of the most troublesome shop stewards around. He confronts the chef, who towers over him, and soon wishes he hadn’t.

CHERRILL, ROGER

Sound Editor on Nurse

Roger Cherrill entered films in the early 1940s, working as a production runner on 1943’s The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. He was working as an assistant editor a year later on A Canterbury Tale and, from the 1950s, as a sound editor on films such as A Day to Remember, Always a Bride, Doctor at Sea, Lost, Tiger in the Smoke and Rooney. As an editor his credits include Make Mine Mink, In the Doghouse, A Kind of Loving, Billy Liar, The Naked Prey and the television series, Interpol Calling.

CHIEF, THE

Played by Eric Barker

The Director of Security Operations seen in Spying is alarmed to hear that Professor Stark has been murdered and a secret formula stolen. He assembles a team of agents and sends them off to retrieve the formula at all costs; the trouble is the team is made up of a bunch of incompetents.

CHIEF CONSTABLE

(Voice only)

Heard in Constable, the Chief Constable phones to congratulate Inspector Mills on catching thieves who recently snatched some wages in the district.

CHILDS, GUNNER

Played by Billy J. Mitchell

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

CHINDI

Played by Michael Mellinger

Seen during the famous dinner-party scene in Up The Khyber, Chindi works for Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond, the British governor in the northwest province of India.

CHINESE LADY

Played by Madame Yang

In Regardless, the Chinese Lady hired an interpreter from Helping Hands but a mix-up finds Sam Twist calling instead of Francis Courtenay.

CHIPPING SODBURY LADIES’ GUILD

The Guild presented drainage, sanitation and garbage disposal engineer, Marshall Knutt, with a sink plunger in recognition of services rendered in Cowboy. He carries it with him when he visits the Bureau of Internal Affairs looking for a job, but probably wishes he hadn’t when it sticks so hard to a clerk’s desk that Knutt ends up tearing the tabletop off trying to release it.

CHIPPING SODBURY TECHNICAL COLLEGE

The college from which Marshall P. Knutt graduated as a drainage, sanitation and garbage disposal engineer. Mentioned in Cowboy.

CHRYSTAL, BIDDY

Hairdresser on Regardless, Cruising, Cabby, and Spying

Biddy Chrystal, head of Pinewood’s hairdressing department for many years, began her film career in the 1940s and proceeded to work on a multitude of films, including Blanche Fury, London Belongs to Me, Prelude to Fame, The Browning Version, Lost and The Early Bird.

She turned freelance and worked through until the 1970s, latterly on productions such as Young Winston, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and, in 1974, 11 Harrowhouse. Eventually moved to America and died in 1995.

CHUMLEY, CLAUDE

Played by Kenneth Connor

Professor Tinkle’s assistant in Up the Jungle, Chumley follows the highly respected ornithologist on his expeditions, including recent visits to the Virgin Isles and, now, the jungles of Africa. While on the trip, he has to fight his unbridled passion for Lady Bagley, another member of the jungle expedition.

CHURCH ROAD

The street in Constable where the criminals involved in the wages snatch abandoned their car, registration RGT 547.

CHURCH, TONY

Wrote the screenplay for That’s Carry On

C I CARAVANS

The company which supplied the caravans used in Behind.

CIGARETTE GIRL

Played by Jill Mai Meredith

Employed at the Café Mozart in Vienna, the Cigarette Girl is seen in Spying, taking a secret message concerning a rendezvous, which is concealed in a cigarette, from the Fat Man to Milchmann. But a mix-up sees Simkins take the cigarette instead.

CITIZENS

Played by Tom Gill, Frank Forsyth, Anthony Sagar, Eric Corrie and John Antrobus

The group of men is seen in Constable, complaining in the police station about various issues.

CITY GENT ON TUBE

Played by Michael Nightingale

You have to feel sorry for this guy, who’s seen in Girls standing reading his paper on his way to work. He’s just minding his own business when Paula Perkins, standing next to him, notices a photo of her fiancé, Peter Potter, on the front of the paper, showing her beloved apparently cavorting with some of the beauty contestants down in Fircombe, an event he’s been asked to promote. Paula makes a comment and the rest of the commuters turn to the City Gent in disgust, thinking he’s guilty of something improper towards Paula.

CLARK, CAPTAIN

Played by Hattie Jacques

Seen in Sergeant, the doctor is based at Heathercrest National Service Depot. Her patience is severely tested by the arrival of Horace Strong, the world’s worst hypochondriac. When she can take no more, she refers him to a team of specialists who examine every inch of his body, and in doing so help him realise that he’s actually in love.

CLARKE, NURSE

Played by Anita Harris

In Doctor, Nurse Clarke is a member of Borough County Hospital’s efficient nursing staff, and just one of the many admirers of Dr Kilmore.

CLARKE, RONALD

Role: 6th Storeman in Sergeant

Ronald Clarke’s other appearances include several roles over the years in Dixon of Dock Green, Gazette and The Gold Robbers. His film credits range from The Battle of the River Plate and Hell Drivers to Up the Junction and The Mackintosh Man.

CLEANER

Played by an uncredited actor

Seen briefly in Regardless, the cleaner at Helping Hands knocks the job allocation cards onto the floor causing chaos when the assignments are dished out the following day.

CLEGG, TERRY

Location Manager on Follow That Camel and Assistant Director on Doctor

Sheffield-born Terry Clegg worked as location manager on A Clockwork Orange and The Mackintosh Man, while as assistant director he’s worked on television series like The Saint and, among others, the films Lucky Lady and Circle of Friends. As a production manager and executive in charge of production his list of credits include A Bridge Too Far, The Elephant Man, Gandhi, Shadowlands and Yaadein. More recently he worked as producer on such films as Cry Freedom, Gorillas in the Mist and Breathtaking.

CLEGG, TOM

Roles: Massive Micky McGee in Regardless, Doorman in Spying, Sosages in Cleo, Blacksmith in Cowboy, Odbodd in Screaming! and Trainer in Loving

A stuntman and bit-part actor, Tom Clegg’s other credits include jobs in television shows Quatermass II and The Sweeney, as well as films like The Fake, The Extra Day and Raising the Wind. He was employed as a stuntman on numerous productions, including the films Ivanhoe and Thunderball.

CLEO, CARRY ON

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CLEOPATRA

Played by Amanda Barrie

Ruler of Egypt, the Queen of the Nile bathes in milk all day, making many men’s hearts flutter, especially Mark Antony’s in Cleo. She plots with Antony to topple Caesar but it takes several attempts before they finally see the back of Caesar and the blossoming of their relationship.

CLEOPATRA

The donkey who’s led into the lounge of the Palace Hotel in Fircombe. Seen in Girls, the animal is used to promote the beauty contest being held in the town; Peter Potter, a friend of Sidney Fiddler, who’s tasked with organising publicity for the event plans to photograph the girls with the donkey, using the promotional line, ‘Beauty and the Beast’. The donkey does little to ingratiate himself with hotel owner Connie Philpotts when it excretes all over the floor.

CLERK

Played by Ian Wilson

In Cabby the Clerk works at Stevens and Son, a printing firm. He speaks to Charlie Hawkins when he enters the office wanting some leaflets printed.

CLERK

Played by Lionel Murton

In Cowboy the Clerk works on the reception desk at Washington and briefly interviews the drainage, sanitation and garbage engineer Marshall P. Knutt when he arrives on the scene job-hunting. He soon wishes he hadn’t set eyes on the accident-prone Mr Knutt, though, when Knutt gets his plunger stuck on the clerk’s desk and ends up ripping the wooden top off.

CLIFF

Played by Jack Taylor

In Constable, Cliff is one of the robbers involved in the wages snatch.

CLIFTON, PHILIP

Role: Injured Footballer in Emmannuelle

Other television work saw Philip Clifton appearing in an episode of the Australian series, Delta, in 1970.

CLIFTON, ZENA

Roles: Au Pair Girl in Matron and Susan Clifton in Girls

As well as acting, Zena Clifton made a living as a dancer on many of Britain’s top television shows, such as Sez Les and The Benny Hill Show.

CLIFFORD, PEGGY ANN

Role: Willa Claudia in Cleo

Born in Bournemouth in 1919, Peggy Ann Clifford worked in rep before establishing herself as a supporting actress, normally cast as a jolly character on film and television. She was particularly busy during the 1950s, and appeared in many films, including Kind Hearts and Coronets, Man of the Moment, Brothers in Law, Doctor at Large and Under Milk Wood.

On television she was seen in, among others, Hancock’s Half Hour, Fawlty Towers, Man About the House, Bless This House, Dawson’s Weekly, George and Mildred, Are You Being Served? and Hi-de-Hi!.

She once sold a block of flats in Fulham in order to buy a grocery shop in Chelsea, which she ran for three years while not acting. She died in 1984, aged sixty-five.

CLIVE

Played by Larry Dann

A student from the University of Kidburn’s archaeological department who helps Professor Crump at the dig. While staying at the Riverside Caravan Site in Behind, next-door to where they are digging, Clive and his mate get friendly with two campers, Carol and Sandra.

CLIVE, JOHN

Roles: Robin Tweet in Abroad and Isaak the Tailor in Dick. (Note: also cast as the Dandy in Henry but scene cut.)

Born in 1938, Londoner John Clive began acting in rep as a child, appearing in plays like The Winslow Boy and Life with Father. His break arrived while working as a pageboy at a theatre. Hearing about auditions for a children’s show, he submitted his name and was accepted as a boy singer, as well as assisting the resident comic in sketches.

His face has since become familiar from more than a hundred film and television performances. On the big screen he’s appeared as a car manager in The Italian Job, as well as Clockwork Orange, Great Expectations and Revenge of the Pink Panther. On television his credits include The Sweeney, Wear A Very Big Hat, How Green Was My Valley, The Government Inspector, The Saint, Man in a Suitcase, Casualty, Perils of Pendragon, and the lead (Professor Sommerby) in the children’s series, Robert’s Robots. He’s also appeared with most of the great comedy performers including Dick Emery, Tommy Cooper, John Cleese and Peter Sellers.

Today, most of Clive’s time is dedicated to writing screenplays and novels – he’s written six to date – although he still acts if the right part comes along. Now divides his time between homes in England and Spain.

MEMORIES

‘You did the Carry On films and enjoyed them for what they were, never thinking, of course, that they’d become enormously successful cult movies. It’s quite remarkable.

‘My first role was playing Robin in Abroad. There was one thing that David, whom I knew prior to filming, and I couldn’t understand. Kenneth Williams and Charles Hawtrey were both camping it up madly and we didn’t know why they wanted us to come in and do the same sort of thing. You know what actors are with everybody worried about their own positions and I didn’t want Kenneth or Charles to think we were seeking to take over their roles in the film – that was the last thing in our minds.

‘I liked Kenneth Williams enormously and thought he was a fabulously funny guy, so I was a little bit careful with him and waited to see how we’d get on, whether he was sharp with me but I’m glad to say he wasn’t. In fact, after he’d seen the rushes he came over personally to congratulate me, patting me on the shoulder and saying: “That was terrific, you two boys are going to be great in this.” Another time I was in make-up and Sid James said virtually the same thing.

‘Trying to create the Mediterranean in the freezing cold of Pinewood was difficult but you just had to put up with it, but I have to say that we were blue with the cold in those bathing costumes because there was a chill wind round the place that day. We had to have body make-up plastered all over us because everybody was freezing. When we filmed the scene involving the rainstorm, everyone got soaked. Luckily I wasn’t caught in it but poor old David was. It was good fun filming Abroad. It was one-take and on to the next.

‘Carry On Dick was only a small part and, if I remember right, just one day’s filming. It was always good fun and easy comedy. I want to pay compliment to the regulars. The only reason anyone talks to anyone else about the Carry On films is because of the regulars, not the script, directing or the producing. They were superb comedy actors of their generations and knew exactly where to go, how far to go and when not to cross that line from pun and innuendo into crude comedy.’

JOHN CLIVE

CLOAKROOM ATTENDANT

Played by Elsie Winsor

In Girls the Cloakroom Attendant works at the Pier Theatre and reminds Sidney Fiddler that he’s in the ladies’ toilets when he’s caught kissing Hope Springs just before she takes part in the Miss Fircombe beauty contest.

CLOAKROOM GIRL

Played by Angela Ellison

The Cloakroom Girl takes Simkins’s hat, coat and false beard when he arrives at the Café Mozart in Spying.

CLOTSKI, CORPORAL

Played by John Bluthal

A corporal in the Foreign Legion, he reports to Sergeant Nocker in Follow That Camel.

CLUB RECEPTIONIST

Played by George Street

Works at the Philosophers’ Club and is seen in Regardless. Speaks to Sam Twist when he arrives to replace Old Lou, who’s ill. Doesn’t believe Twist will be up to the job and is proved right when he has to escort him off the premises because he can’t refrain from laughing at some of the geriatrics at the club.

CARRY ON CLEO

An Anglo Amalgamated film

A Peter Rogers production

Distributed through Warner-Pathe Distribution Ltd

Released as an A certificate in 1964 in colour

Running time: 92 mins

CAST

Sidney James Mark AntonyKenneth Williams Julius CaesarCharles Hawtrey SenecaKenneth Connor Hengist PodJoan Sims CalpurniaJim Dale HorsaAmanda Barrie CleopatraVictor Maddern Sergeant MajorJulie Stevens GloriaSheila Hancock Senna PodJon Pertwee SoothsayerBrian Oulton BrutusMichael Ward ArchimedesFrancis de Wolff AgrippaTom Clegg SosagesTanya Binning VirginiaDavid Davenport BiliusPeter Gilmore Galley MasterIan Wilson MessengerNorman Mitchell HecklerBrian Rawlinson Hessian DriverGertan Klauber MarcusWarren Mitchell SpenciusPeter Jesson CompanionMichael Nightingale CavemanJudi Johnson Gloria’s BridesmaidThelma Taylor Seneca’s ServantSally Douglas Antony’s Dusky MaidenWanda Ventham Pretty BidderPeggy Ann Clifford Willa ClaudiaMark Hardy Guard at Caesar’s PalaceE.V.H. Emmett NarratorChristine Rodgers Gloria Best Virginia Tyler Hand MaidensGloria Johnson Joanna Ford Donna White Jane Lumb Vicki Smith Vestal Virgins

(Uncredited ‘Companions’: Stuart Monro, Forbes Douglas, Billy Cornelius, Peter Fraser, Frederick Beauman and Keith Buckley.)

PRODUCTION TEAM

Screenplay by Talbot Rothwell

Music composed and conducted by Eric Rogers

Associate Producer: Frank Bevis

Art Director: Bert Davey

Director of Photography: Alan Hume

Editor: Archie Ludski

Camera Operator: Godfrey Godar

Assistant Director: Peter Bolton

Unit Manager: Donald Toms

Continuity: Olga Brook

Make-up: Geoffrey Rodway

Sound Editor: Christopher Lancaster

Sound Recordists: Bill Daniels and Gordon K. McCallum

Hairdressing: Ann Fordyce

Costume Designer: Julie Harris

Producer: Peter Rogers

Director: Gerald Thomas

Caesar (Kenneth Williams) looks to the heavens for inspiration

Amanda Barrie in fine form as Cleo

Hengist Pod’s simple life as a wheelmaker specialising in making square wheels is forever changed when the Romans arrive and ransack his village. While his new neighbour, Horsa, stays with the rest of the villagers to try and fight off the Romans, Hengist jumps on his square-wheeled contraption and heads off to seek help. He hasn’t gone far before his fragile vehicle collapses and he ends up thumbing a lift; when he gratefully accepts a ride in a wagon, he jumps in the back only to find he’s in the company of his fellow cavemen, including Horsa, who’ve been taken prisoner by the Romans.

As they head for Rome, Julius Caesar is anxious to leave the damp British climate behind for sunnier skies back home; when a message arrives warning that Brutus might be planning to take over the throne in his absence, he rushes back to be met by a less than rapturous welcome.

Caesar has become so unpopular that even his father-in-law, Seneca, is having premonitions about his impending doom. Caesar consults the Vestal Virgins but as he enters the Temple of Vesta, Bilius, his personal bodyguard, takes out his sword with the intention of slaying his leader. Unbeknown to Caesar, Horsa and Hengist Pod have escaped from the slave market and are hiding with the Vestal Virgins, and a mix-up leaves numerous Roman soldiers dead and Hengist hailed as the hero by Caesar who, believing he saved his life, makes him a centurion and personal bodyguard.

Treachery is rife. When Mark Antony is sent by Caesar to see Cleopatra, the Queen of the Nile, he succumbs to her charm and beauty; when Cleopatra mentions how good they could be together if Mark Anthony was emperor of Rome, he plans to topple Caesar. Upon returning to Rome, he tells the Roman leader that Cleopatra wants to meet him, although the plan is for Caesar to be killed en route. The Roman soldiers on the ship who intend murdering Caesar are all killed by the galley slaves who manage to escape; Caesar, however, doesn’t know this and, thinking the soldiers are out to get him, pushes Hengist out to deal with the rebels. A quivering wreck, Hengist soon perks up when he finds the soldiers already dead, so pretends to have killed them himself, thereby gaining even more respect from his new boss.

When Mark Antony’s plans to kill Caesar at sea are thwarted, he hatches another one with Cleopatra inviting him to her bedchamber. But when he’s told of a premonition depicting his death, Caesar decides against going and sends Hengist Pod instead. When he climbs on the bed with Cleopatra it collapses on top of Mark Antony, who was waiting underneath to kill Caesar. Before long, Horsa and the other galley slaves, who’ve entered the palace in search of food, come to Hengist’s rescue again.

Despite surviving all the failed murder attempts, it isn’t long before Caesar bites the dust, leaving Mark Antony free to team up with Cleopatra, Horsa to marry his long-lost love, Gloria, and Hengist to become a new man and father plenty of kids.

CLULOW, JENNIFER

Role: 1st Lady in Don’t Lose Your Head

Born in Grimsby, Humberside, in 1942, Jennifer Clulow trained at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama before beginning her career on a world tour of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s King Lear and Comedy of Errors. Further West End work followed including a leading role in the musical 4000 Brass Halfpennies, as well as repertory work.

She began appearing on screen from the mid-1960s. She presented the children’s series, Disney Wonderland, a cookery series for ATV and read the news for Westward Television. When TVS opened its doors, Clulow – who played Catherine in the famous Cointreau adverts – worked as an announcer.

Other television credits include The Baron, The Avengers, Department S, Lovejoy, Bergerac and, in 1993, Keeping Up Appearances. For two years she played Claire Clarkson in The Troubleshooters and Jessica Dalton in Granada’s series, Mr Rose.

COACH AND HORSES, THE

A pub mentioned by WPC Passworthy in Constable. It’s where she arrested the infamous Mrs May for smashing a bottle over a barman’s head just because he asked her to leave.

COACH DRIVER

Played by Barrie Gosney

Seen sitting on top of a stagecoach in Jack, this cheeky chappie tells Albert Poop-Decker to hurry up when he’s alighting from the coach at Plymouth.