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

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.

COBLEY

Played by Richard Wattis

This bespectacled official reports to the Director of Security Operations in Spying.

COBURN, BRIAN

Roles: Trapper in Cowboy and Highwayman in Dick

Born in Scotland in 1936, Brian Coburn’s hefty frame meant he was instantly recognisable on stage and screen. He worked throughout the world during his career and clocked up over 200 television appearances, his favourite show being BBC’s God’s Wonderful Railway , in which he played the lead.

A steady supply of theatrical and film work came his way: among his credits on the big screen were Octopussy , Trenchcoat, Trial by Combat, Love and Death and Fiddler On the Roof.

Coburn was returning to the Royal Shakespeare Company when illness caused him to cancel the engagement. He died in 1989, aged fifty-three, from a diabetic-related illness.

COCCIUM-IN-CORNOVII

Hengist’s and Horsa’s home town in Cleo.

COCKBURN, PETER

Role: Commentator in Camping

He was also seen as a commentator in 1971 episodes of Paul Temple and On the Buses , while his voice was heard on Marillion’s 1983 album, Script for a Jester’s Tear.

Marian Collins played a bride in two Carry Ons ( Cabby )

COCK INN

The inn is mentioned by James Bedsop, the ineffective private investigator hired by Sophie Bliss to spy on Sidney, who, she feels, is seeing women behind her back. In Loving , Sidney was spotted in the establishment’s saloon bar by Bedsop who then followed him back to his office.

CODE CLERK

Played by Gertan Klauber

Seen in Spying the Code Clerk brings a message to the Director of Security Operations (alias The Chief). It’s from Carstairs, the Vienna-based agent, reporting the arrival of Milchmann, a wanted criminal. The Chief questions the validity of appointing foreign subjects in the decoding department.

COE, CAPTAIN

This captain’s epic journey is mentioned by Captain Fearless in Jack. In an open boat, six sailors set out and were at sea for seventy-three days. Only three reached home shores, having survived by eating the three comrades that didn’t make it. Fearless refers to the event when, together with some of his crew, he’s hopelessly lost in a rowing boat, miles from anywhere. The captain isn’t seen in the film.

COLE, PAUL

Role: Atkins in Teacher

As a child actor, Paul Cole appeared in a handful of productions between 1959 and ’63, including, on television, The Four Just Men and The Pursuers , as well as the films Dracula, Next To No Time, Please Turn Over and The Mouse on the Moon.

COLETTE

Played by Suzanna East

Seen in Richmond’s flashback sequence in Emmannuelle in which he describes his most amorous experience. Colette is the niece of the French parson who takes pity on Richmond and provides him with shelter when a German soldier chases him. Colette, though, is the reason Richmond didn’t return to England until eight years after the war ended.

COLIN, SID

Co-wrote the screenplay for Spying

TV: Co-wrote Christmas (70)

Born in London in 1915, screenwriter Sid Colin specialised in comedy for screen and radio, but upon leaving school pursued a musical career. He taught himself the banjo and joined a touring group, playing and singing around the country.

During the war, he served six years in The Squadronnaires, the RAF’s dance orchestra, playing guitar and writing shows, during which time he met Denis Norden and Frank Muir with whom he’d later work on numerous occasions.

After the war, he quit touring and began concentrating on his writing career, but not before he tried making a living as an artist. Colin painted, drew and sculpted all his life and eventually found work designing covers for sheet music. But his future lay in scriptwriting and he soon began writing for radio, film and, later, television.

Among his writing credits for radio are Life With the Lyons , while on television his output includes the series How Do You View? , Before Your Very Eyes , The Army Game and Love Thy Neighbour. His film work included One Good Turn, I Only Arsked! , and the Frankie Howerd films Up the Chastity Belt, Up Pompeii and Up the Front. One of his last screenplays was 1982’s The Boys in Blue. Also a lyricist, he penned songs for films such as Up the Front and Bottoms Up.

He died in 1989, aged seventy-four.

COLLEANO, GARRY

Role: Slim in Cowboy

Other screen credits include a 1960 episode of International Detective and the 1961 film Follow That Man.

COLLINGS, JEANNIE

Role: Private Edwards in England

Born in 1952, Liverpudlian Jeannie Collings started her career as a model for the Moroccan government. After gaining success in this field, she turned her attention to acting. Among her television credits are appearances on The Benny Hill Show , The Generation Game, The Golden Shot, Dixon of Dock Green and Armchair Theatre. In films she’s been seen in Emily, Confessions of a Window Cleaner, Percy’s Progress, I’m Not Feeling Myself Tonight and Cruel Passion.

COLLINS, LAURA

Role: Nurse in Matron

COLLINS, MARIAN

Roles: Bride in Cruising , Bride in Cabby , Girl at Dirty Dick’s in Jack and Amazon Guard in Spying

On screen from the 1950s, Marian Collins was also seen in the television shows Dixon of Dock Green and Frankie Howerd , as well as films such as Behind the Headlines, The Desperate Man, Jungle Street and an uncredited role as Goldfinger’s girlfriend in the Bond movie, Goldfinger.

COLONEL, THE

Played by Wilfrid Hyde-White

From his own private room at the Haven Hospital, the Colonel drives the nurses mad in Nurse with his incessant demands. His good nature, though, is reciprocated and everyone bends over backwards to help, especially Mick, the ward orderly, who’s forever placing bets on the horses for the Colonel. The staff get their own back in the end, courtesy of a strategically placed daffodil!

COMMENTATOR

Played by Peter Cockburn

In Camping he commentates on the film, Nudist Paradise, which is shown at the Picture Playhouse.

COMMISSIONER

Played by Alan Gifford

Based in Washington, the Commissioner works in the Bureau of Internal Affairs. In Cowboy he’s first seen having a little fun with a woman in his office until interrupted by Perkins, his assistant. A former janitor at the law school Judge Burke, of Stodge City, attended, he responds to Burke’s request for a peace marshal but can’t find anyone to fill the position until Marshall P. Knutt walks in looking for a job. Assuming he’s actually a marshal when he’s actually a drainage, sanitation and garbage disposal engineer, he packs him off to Stodge City.

COMPANION