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

TED: That’s right. Get her.

ANCIENT CARRIER

Played by Ian Wilson

Assists the Carrier in Jack by ferrying Midshipman Poop-Decker to his ship at Plymouth Docks.

ANCIENT GENERAL

Played by Eric Barker

Seen dining at the French Ambassador’s residence in Emmannuelle.

ANGEL, MR (THE BOSUN)

Played by Percy Herbert

The bosun, who’s been at sea fifteen years, works on the frigate Venus. He’s seen in Jack, initially as part of the press gang scouring the streets of Plymouth for two unfortunates to join the ship’s crew.

ANGELINETTA, OLGA

Hairdresser on Teacher and Jack

Olga Angelinetta, daughter of a restaurateur, was born in London in 1902. After achieving her City and Guilds in hairdressing and wig-making, she worked for leading names in the industry until being taken ill in 1943 and spending a year in hospital. Soon after recuperating, she secured a job at Pinewood Studios.

She eventually turned freelance and worked at all the top studios, including Denham and Twickenham. Her list of film credits included The Counterfeit Plan, Make Mine Mink, One Million Years B.C., Our Mother’s House and, her final picture, A Clockwork Orange in 1971.

She retired in the early 1970s and died in 1995, aged ninety-three.

ANGUS

An unseen character in Cruising, Angus was head barman on the Happy Wanderer until he tied the knot and was sworn off booze. Believing a life on the ocean wave wasn’t compatible with marriage, he jacked in his job. The trouble was, he was the only one capable of mixing an Aberdeen Angus, Captain Crowther’s favourite tipple. Eventually, though, he passes on the details to his replacement, Sam Turner, to the relief of the captain.

ANGUS ROBERTSON & COMPANY LIMITED

The estate agent in Cabby who markets the yard and garages Peggy Hawkins rents for her Glamcab taxi company. The office is based at 306 Park Street.

ANTHEA

Played by Amanda Barrie

A posh-speaking Glamcab driver in Cabby. When Ted Watson tries infiltrating the team by posing, disastrously, as a glamour girl, she embarrasses him by asking for help out of her clothes because the staff uniforms are required for washing.

ANTONY, MARK

Played by Sid James

The courageous soldier who claims to be Julius Caesar’s best friend in Cleo. Falls in love with Cleopatra and plots to murder Caesar but his plans are beset with unexpected difficulties.

ANTONY’S DUSKY MAIDEN

Played by Sally Douglas

A dark-haired beauty whom Mark Antony buys from a slave market in Cleo .

ANTROBUS, JOHN

Role: Citizen in Constable . Also credited for writing additional material for the screenplays of Sergeant and Columbus

Son of a sergeant-major in the army, John Antrobus was born in Woolwich Military Hospital in 1933. After leaving school he served two years in the Merchant Navy before, aged nineteen, following his father into the army. He attended Sandhurst Royal Military Academy and was progressing well until his increasing disenchantment at the thought of a military career saw him quit the Forces.

Wanting to be a writer, he was fortunate enough to meet Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, who’d established Associated London Scripts with Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes. They agreed to read some of his work, so by day he earned his living as a waiter, supply teacher and film extra (he was in a crowd scene in 1984 and a non-speaking lab assistant in The Man Who Never Was ), while in the evening he completed a script and sent it to the writers.

Before long he was writing with Johnny Speight and supplying material for, among others, Frankie Howerd, Arthur Haynes, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan. He’s also contributed to numerous television shows, including That Was The Week That Was, The Army Game, Bootsie and Snudge, The Dustbinmen and Milligan In …

Antrobus has written for all media, including the screenplays for 1959’s Idle On Parade , starring Anthony Newley, Lionel Jeffries and William Bendix, and, a decade later, The Bed-Sitting Room , with Rita Tushingham and Ralph Richardson. He’s also written extensively for the theatre, such as four plays for the Royal Court Theatre and the jewel in his crown, Crete and Sergeant Pepper.

In recent years, John has teamed up with scriptwriter Ray Galton to pen two series of Room at the Bottom for television and the sanatorium-based sitcom, Get Well Soon. They also wrote the farce, When Did You Last See Your Trousers , which played the Garrick Theatre for a year, and have recently written a stage version of Steptoe and Son which opens at the Theatre Royal, York, in the autumn of 2005.

APHRODISIA

The name of the valley beyond the mountains in Africa where the lubidubies live in Up the Jungle.

ARABIAN OFFICIAL

Played by Steve Plytas

Seen dining at the French Ambassador’s residence in Emmannuelle.

ARCHIMEDES

Played by Michael Ward

Seen in Cleo walking the corridors of Cleopatra’s abode. His official title is Chief Counsellor.

ARISTOCRATIC LADY

Played by Ambrosine Phillpotts

In Cabby, this snooty old girl is seen sitting in the back of a chauffeur-driven car. While waiting at a junction, Charlie Hawkins pulls up and cracks a joke, aimed at the straight-faced chauffeur, about whether he’s going to a funeral, before suggesting that his passenger has got out of the box.

ARMITAGE, MISS

Played by Ann Lancaster

Appears in Again Doctor . Miss Armitage is a patient at the Long Hampton Hospital who’s been admitted for observation. She observes more than she bargained for when Dr Nookey goes into the women’s washroom by mistake and takes a shower. When he later enters her room, believing he’ll find Goldie Locks in bed, it’s the last straw for the eccentric Miss Armitage, who’s liable to suffer the occasional fit.

CARRY ON AT YOUR CONVENIENCE

Alternative titles … Down The Spout, Ladies Please Be Seated, Up The Workers, Labour Relations Are The People Who Come To See You When You’re Having A Baby

A Peter Rogers production

Distributed through Rank Organisation Released as an A certificate in 1971 in colour

Running time: 90 mins

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