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

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.

CHARLIE

Played by Percy Herbert