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

The company which supplied all the nurses’ uniforms for Nurse.

COURTENAY, FRANCIS

Played by Kenneth Williams

Seen in Regardless, Francis is an intellectual who’s fluent in sixteen languages, including gobbledygook, which helps when the landlord comes calling. Fancies himself as a model and is delighted when a modelling assignment is given to him – that is until discovering he’s been hired to model hats for beekeepers.

COURTING GIRL

Played by Drina Pavlovic

The Courting Girl, who’s sneaked into the bushes with a boy, is disturbed when Henry Barnes throws a stick into the shrubs during Behind.

COURTS

The shop in Camping which Sid Boggle and Bernie Lugg visit hoping to find a leaflet on the nudist camp they plan visiting with their girlfriends. Unfortunately they pick up the wrong one and end up in a mudpit in Devon. The shop is also visited by Charlie Muggins who causes a commotion before buying some camping gear.

COWBOY, CARRY ON

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COWHAND

Played by Hal Galili

In Cowboy the Cowhand is sitting beside a camp fire with his colleague, Joe, keeping an eye on his herd when he’s attacked by Rumpo’s men.

COWLING, BRENDA

Roles: Matron in Girls and Wife in Behind

London-born Brenda Cowling wanted to be a film star as early as her childhood, but after leaving school trained as a shorthand typist before eventually changing direction and joining RADA. While studying at the Academy she made a brief appearance as a drama student in Hitchcock’s Stage Fright .

Plenty of rep work followed before Cowling made her television debut. Early small screen appearances include several series of an afternoon keep-fit show and The Forsyte Saga . Her career has focused mainly on television but she has occasionally appeared on stage and in films, such as The Railway Children, International Velvet and a small part in the Bond movie, Octopussy .

Television credits include Dad’s Army; It Ain’t Half Hot; Mum, Hi-de-Hi!; Fawlty Towers; The Pallisers; Only When I Laugh; three series of Potter; four series of You Rang, M’Lord?; The Last Detective; Casualty; Murder in Suburbia; Doctors and Nurses and Holby City .

COX, IAN

Technical Advisor on Jack

Lieutenant Commander Ian Cox supplied his naval expertise for other films, such as 1970’s Hell Boats.

COX, JENNY

Role: Veronica in Behind

Born in Abervale, South Wales, Jenny Cox completed her education at Watford Grammar School and joined the local rep, making her debut as a prostitute in The Hostage. She moved on to begin her acting career in earnest at the Oxford Playhouse.

Her stage career has included a host of productions, including The Dirtiest Show in Town and Pyjama Tops , while her occasional small-screen appearances during the 1970s and ’80s include, among others, Steptoe and Son, Rings On Their Fingers, Shoestring, The Chinese Detective and Thames Television’s Spasms in 1977 . She also played Dr Livingstone in the 1974 film, Can You Keep It Up for a Week?.

C. R. & J. BRAY

The establishment, which is next-door to D.L. Randall’s, is a tobacconist and newsagent. The front of the property is seen in Behind.

CRIBBINS, BERNARD

Roles: Midshipman Albert Poop-Decker in Jack , Harold Crump in Spying and Mordecai Mendoza in Columbus

Born in Oldham, Lancashire, in 1928, Bernard Cribbins began acting at the age of fourteen upon joining his local repertory company as an assistant stage manager. By the 1950s, he was playing leading roles on the West End stage and featuring in his own revue.

He began appearing on the screen in the late-1950s, with one-off roles in series like The Vise and small parts in films such as The Yangtse Incident and Davy, but it was the 1960s in which he attained national recognition. As well as releasing three novelty records, including Hole in the Ground , which climbed to number nine in 1962, he appeared in a string of films and television shows. His big-screen credits include Two Way Stretch, The Wrong Arm of the Law, Crooks in Cloisters, The Sandwich Man, The Railway Children and Dangerous Davies – The Last Detective. On television, he’s appeared in programmes such as The Troubleshooters, Fawlty Towers, Tales of the Unexpected, Barbara, High and Dry and, most recently, Coronation Street , as Wally Bannister. He’s also remembered for providing the voices to the Wombles on television.

CRIMINAL TYPE

Played by Victor Maddern

When PC Benson steps in and stops someone who he thinks is about to steal a car, he doesn’t realise he’s just stopped Detective Sergeant Liddell from CID.

CROMWELL, THOMAS

Played by Kenneth Williams

Henry VIII’s chancellor is seen in Henry rushing around trying to satisfy his employer’s every need. When money needs to be raised to pay for the King’s annulment, Cromwell comes up with the bright idea for taxing sex, called Sex Enjoyment Tax.

CROOK

Played by Freddie Mills

Seen in Constable, the crook and his accomplices have just robbed a jewellery shop when PC Potter, a callow new police constable, taps him on the shoulder as he climbs into the getaway car and asks for directions to the police station, totally oblivious to the fact that he’s just committed a crime.

CROSS, LARRY

Role: Perkins in Cowboy

Larry Cross, who died in 1976, appeared on television from the 1950s, and among his credits were roles in Sailor of Fortune, International Detective, The Saint, Man of the World, Man in a Suitcase, Callan, The Troubleshooters, Thriller and Hadleigh. In films he was seen in, among others, Time Lock, The Mouse on the Moon, Battle Beneath the Earth and his last film, 1975’s The Wind and the Lion.

CROW, DR

Played by Judith Furse

In charge of the subversive organisation STENCH, Dr Crow is seen in Spying. A threat to all mankind, Crow is responsible for the murder of Professor Stark and the stealing of a top-secret formula.

CROWFOOT, ESME

Played by Joan Sims

A client of the Wedded Bliss Agency who’s personally vetted – on a regular basis to the disgust of Sophie – by Sidney Bliss, who fancies her rotten. The thirty-five-year-old corset specialist lives in a flat at 32 Rogerham Mansions, Dunham Road, London W23, and used to date a man-mountain of a wrestler, Gripper Burke, until he went to fight in America. When he returns, they rekindle their relationship and end up getting engaged.

Bernard Cribbins (right) makes the first of three Carry On appearances ( Jack )

CARRY ON CRUISING

An Anglo Amalgamated film

A Peter Rogers production

Distributed through Warner-Pathe Distribution Ltd

From a story by Eric Barker

Released as a U certificate in 1962 in colour

Running time: 89 mins

CAST

(Note: the song sung by Dr Binn while attempting to serenade Flo was recorded by Roberto Cardinali, for a fee of £75.)