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

Played by Peter Jesson

One of seven companions originally seen in Cleo .

CONCORDE STEWARD

Played by James Fagan

Gets more than he bargained for when he attends to Emmannuelle ‘Straying Hands’ Prevert, the French Ambassador’s wife, during a London-bound flight on Concorde. Seen in Emmannuelle .

CONNOISSEURS DE LONDRES

The organisation holds a wine-tasting session at the Ruby Room in Regardless.

CONNOISSEUR

Played by David Lodge

Seen in Regardless, the Connoisseur attends the wine-tasting session at the Ruby Room organised for the Connoisseurs de Londres. He helps a drunk Lily Duveen, who was hired from Helping Hands to collect invitations, to her feet when she collapses on the floor, only to be accused of having straying hands.

CONNOR, JEREMY

Roles: Jeremy Bishop in Nurse, Willy in Constable , Footpad in Dick , Student with Ice-cream in Behind and Gunner Hiscocks in England

Son of Kenneth, Jeremy Connor was born in 1955 and made occasional screen appearances as an actor. He now lives in New Zealand.

CONNOR, KENNETH

Roles: Horace Strong in Sergeant , Bernie Bishop in Nurse , Gregory Adams in Teacher , Constable Charlie Constable in Constable , Sam Twist in Regardless , Dr Arthur Binn in Cruising , Ted Watson in Cabby , Hengist Pod in Cleo , Claude Chumley in Up the Jungle , Lord Hampton of Wick in Henry , Mr Tidey in Matron , Stanley Blunt in Abroad , Mayor Frederick Bumble in Girls , Constable in Dick , Major Leep in Behind , Captain S. Melly in England and Leyland in Emmannuelle

TV: Christmas (’70); Christmas (’72); What a Carry On! ; Christmas (’73); The Prisoner of Spenda ; The Baron Outlook ; Orgy and Bess ; One in the Eye for Harold ; The Nine Old Cobblers ; The Case of the Screaming Winkles ; The Case of the Coughing Parrot ; Under the Round Table ; Short Knight , Long Daze ; And in My Lady’s Chamber ; Who Needs Kitchener? and Lamp Posts of the Empire

STAGE: London! and Laughing

A sublime piece of casting saw Kenneth Connor play Horace Strong, the hypochondriac who’s horrified to be passed fit for national service in Sergeant and set the tone for the diminutive actor’s Carry On career. If ever someone was required to play a dithering, nervous, angst-ridden little man, chances are Connor would be top of the list. He portrayed such characters with aplomb and quickly became an essential part of the gang.

Born in London in 1918, Kenneth Connor made his stage debut at the age of two and by the time he was eleven was performing various acts with his brother in revue shows. Deciding that he wanted to concentrate on becoming a ‘serious’ actor, he attended the Central School of Drama. Upon graduating his first professional job was as Boy David at His Majesty’s Theatre, London, in 1936.

He went on to act in numerous repertory theatres, later becoming a member of the Bristol Old Vic Company; although the outbreak of war in 1939, during which he served with the army’s Middlesex Regiment as a gunner, put a temporary halt to his career, he was for part of the time attached to George Black’s company, Stars in Battledress, touring the Mediterranean.

After demob he returned to acting in a West End play at the Strand Theatre and, before long, a role in the television soap, The Huggetts ; but he made his name for the array of character voices he created on radio shows such as Just William and Ray’s A Laugh with Ted Ray, the start of a long and lasting association with the comedian. His success in Ray’s A Laugh saw Ted Ray engage him as his top supporting player in the television series, The Ted Ray Show.

He went on to feature in the 1955 comedy, The Ladykillers , before appearing in the first of many Carry On roles. Other film credits include Poison Pen, The Black Rider, Davy, Make Mine a Million, Watch Your Stern, Nearly A Nasty Accident, Dentist on the Job, What a Carve Up and Rhubarb.

CARRY ON CONSTABLE

An Anglo Amalgamated release

A Peter Rogers production

Based on an idea by Brock Williams

Released as a U certificate in 1960 in black & white Running time: 86 mins

CAST

PRODUCTION TEAM

Screenplay by Norman Hudis

Music composed and directed by Bruce Montgomery

Art Director: Carmen Dillon

Director of Photography: Ted Scaife

Editor: John Shirley

Production Manager: Frank Bevis

Camera Operator: Alan Hume

Assistant Director: Peter Manley

Sound Editor: Leslie Wiggins

Sound Recordists: Robert T. MacPhee and Bill Daniels

Continuity: Joan Davis

Make-up: George Blackler

Hairdressing: Stella Rivers

Dress Designer: Yvonne Caffin

Set Dressing: Vernon Dixon

Casting Director: Betty White

Producer: Peter Rogers

Director: Gerald Thomas

Sgt. Moon (Hattie Jacques) and Sgt. Wilkins (Sid James) make the perfect partnership

Benson (Kenneth Williams) and Potter (Leslie Phillips) patrol their beat

A flu epidemic sweeps Britain, affecting every industry, including the police force. With constables dropping like flies, raw recruits just out of training school are thrown into the thick of the action, as well as the incorrigible Timothy Gorse, a special constable whose services are only called upon as a last resort.