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

ATTRACTIVE NURSE

Played by Shane Cordell

One of the nurses employed at Haven Hospital in Nurse.

AU PAIR GIRL

Played by Zena Clifton

When the pregnant film star, Jane Darling, is rushed off in the back of an ambulance, Mr Darling can’t wait to wave his wife goodbye so he can return to the house and get his hands all over his au pair. Appears in Matron.

AUBREY, DIANE

Role: Honoria in Constable

Diane Aubrey, born in Nottingham in 1939, joined LAMDA straight from school. By the time she graduated she’d already made her acting debut, appearing in a 1957 episode of the series The Vise and the film Grip of the Strangler , a year later.

Although she worked in rep, most of her career was spent on the screen. As well as appearing in series like Moonstrike and Dixon of Dock Green , she played Sally Clarkson in Z Cars for several months during 1962, and Sandra in the 1963 series, Taxi! , with Sid James. On the big screen, her credits include Village of the Damned; Watch it, Sailor!; Petticoat Pirates;The Wild Affair and her last film, The Engagement in 1970.

She retired from acting at the age of twenty-nine after her children were born. Now based in London, she’s been teaching the Alexander Technique for twenty-four years.

AUNTIE

Played by Lucy Griffiths

Named as Aunt Acid in the Regardless script, she’s standing alongside Montgomery Infield-Hopping in the bachelor exhibit at the Ideal House Exhibition. She looks disapprovingly when Delia comes flying through the wall of the exhibit next-door, much to the delight of the raffish customer.

AVERY AVENUE

The road where Bide-a-Wee Rest Home stands in Screaming!

AXWELL, NURSE GEORGIE

Played by Susan Stephen

Georgie Axwell works on the ward at Haven Hospital in Nurse.

AZURE BAY

A region in the Beatific Islands where the Moore Medical Mission – which is nothing more than a decrepit wooden hut – stands. The bay is visited by Dr Carver and Dr Nookey in Again Doctor.

BABS

Played by Barbara Windsor

Seen in Camping, Babs (real name Barbara) is one of the nubile young ladies from Chayste Place, a finishing school, camping at the Paradise Camp Site. Out to enjoy herself, the mischievous Babs flirts with Sid Boggle, much to his girlfriend’s chagrin, while under canvas, before heading off on the back of a lorry with other partygoers at an all-nite rave in the adjoining field. (Note: in an early draft of the script, a character called Rosemary was due to lose her bikini top.)

BADEN-SEMPER, NINA

Role: Girl Nosha in Up the Jungle

Born in the West Indies in 1945, Nina Baden-Semper first appeared on screen in the 1960s but is best known for playing Barbie Reynolds in five series of the controversial sitcom, Love Thy Neighbour , during the 1970s.

Other small screen credits include Rainbow City, Counterstrike, Callan, George and Mildred and Children’s Ward. She appeared most recently in the revival of Crossroads. Her occasional film credits include Kongi’s Harvest, The Love Ban and 1999’s Rage.

BAGLEY, LADY EVELYN

Played by Joan Sims

Seen in Up the Jungle on the expedition into the jungles of Africa. Soon after her baby boy, Cecil, was born, her husband whisked her off to the African jungle for a belated honeymoon. Tragedy struck when her hubby took their son for an early morning stroll along the banks of the Limpopo River and neither were seen again. When her husband’s fob watch was later discovered inside a crocodile’s stomach, and her son’s nappy abandoned on the riverbank, she feared the worst. Now she has returned to try and find the nappy pin, just something she can cling on to as a memory of her little boy.

When she unexpectedly meets Cecil, the Jungle Boy, and finds he has a big, silver safety pin holding his loincloth together, she suddenly realises her little baby – now a very big baby – is still alive. She’s desperate to find her son and is finally reunited by the time Lady Bagley and the other members of the party, who manage to escape the grip of the Lubidubies, a female tribe in the jungle, head home; by then, she also comes face-to-face with her long-lost husband, who’s been given the title of King Tonka by the Lubidubies, and she returns to England with him in tow, too.

BAGLEY, WALTER

Played by Charles Hawtrey

It was thought that Walter Bagley, alias King Tonka in Up the Jungle , had been eaten by a crocodile in the African jungle. Whilst honeymooning with his wife, Evelyn, and their little baby boy, Cecil, he decided to take his son for an early morning stroll through the jungle. Nothing was seen of him, or the little boy, again; when his watch was later found inside a dead crocodile’s stomach, it was assumed he’d been eaten alive.

Lady Bagley, therefore, is shocked when she’s reunited with her husband, who hadn’t been gobbled up at all; he’s been living the life of Riley with the Lubidubies, a tribe of females, who appointed him King Tonka with the sole duty of mating with as many girls as possible. All those years ago, his watch was eaten by a warrior from the Nosha tribe, who was then eaten by a crocodile. The Noshas had captured Walter and his life was in peril until rescued by the Lubidubies.

When Lady Bagley returns home she takes Walter with her, whom the Lubidubies lose interest in once his wife appears on the scene.

BAGPIPE SOLDIER

Played by Simon Cain

A soldier of the 3rd Foot and Mouth in Up The Khyber.

BAGSHAW, CAPTAIN

Played by Peter Gilmore

One of Lady Jane Ponsonby’s many suitors in Follow That Camel, Bagshaw tries his utmost to see another, Bertram West, written off by accusing him of cheating at cricket. When West is banned from ever stepping foot inside the Ponsonbys’ mansion again, Humphrey Bagshaw’s conscience gets the better of him: realising he’s acted despicably, he tries committing suicide.

BAILEY, ANTHONY

Role: Rider in Dick

Londoner Anthony Bailey was born in 1933 and trained at the City Literary Institute. Primarily a stage actor, he appeared on the screen from time to time. On television, he had a running part as Roddy Barrows in Crossroads and was also seen in, among others, Arthur of the Britons, Barlow at Large, The New Avengers, The Professionals, Grange Hill and The Bill. His film credits included The Main Chance, Thunderball, The Deadly Bees and Hussy.

Most recently, he was appearing at the National Theatre in London. He died in 2004, aged seventy-one.

BAILEY, JAMES

Played by Kenneth Williams

In Sergeant , James Bailey is a member of Sergeant Grimshaw’s Able Platoon. An educated snob, he ruffles Grimshaw’s feathers from day one with his supercilious manner. Eventually, though, he blends with the rest of the platoon and is instrumental in persuading them to give their utmost to become champion platoon. A graduate, his abilities are put to good use when he moves to the Education Corps after basic training.

BAIRD, ANTHONY

Role: Guard in Spying

Born in London in 1920, Anthony Baird has appeared in over a dozen films, including Passport to Treason, Operation Conspiracy, Echo of Diana, The Ipcress File, Cheetah and Braxton, but his most notable appearance was in Ealing’s 1945 compendium, Dead of Night.