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George Frederick Joffre Hartree (30 November 1914 - 27 October 1988), better known as Charles Hawtrey, was a British comedy actor. The sleeve for the 2001 The Smiths compilation, The Very Best of…. This is an album cover. ...
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Life
Born at Hounslow in Middlesex, England, as George Frederick Joffre Hartree, he took his stage name from a celebrated theatrical knight of the previous century, Sir Charles Hawtrey. It has mistakenly been suggested, and encouraged by Hartree himself, that he was the son of Sir Charles Hawtrey but there is no foundation to this. His father was actually a London car mechanic. Hounslow is the principal town of the London Borough of Hounslow in West London. ...
Middlesex is one of the 39 historic counties of England. ...
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Sir Charles Henry Hawtrey (September 21, 1858 - July 30, 1923), was a celebrated Victorian / Edwardian stage actor, knighted in 1922 by King George V. He was a comedian, actor, director, producer/manager. ...
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Charles Hawtrey made an early start to a remarkable career that was to span a period of almost 60 years, and broke through in all the major entertainment media of the time. He began in the field of music as a renowned boy soprano, making several records before then moving onto the wireless where he performed in programmes for 'Children's Hour'. Following study at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London, he embarked on a career in the theatre as both actor and director. Finally he moved from the cinema (where he regularly appeared against Will Hay in the 1930s in films such as 'The Ghost of St Michaels') through the Carry On films, to the television screen. Italia Conti Academy is an acting school in Clapham, London, training actors for the professional stage and screen. ...
William Thompson Hay (December 6, 1888 – April 18, 1949) was a British comedian, actor and amateur astronomer. ...
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The Carry On films were a long-running series of British popular low-budget comedy films, directed by Gerald Thomas and produced by Peter Rogers. ...
Very little is publicly known about Charles Hawtrey's private life. He guarded his relationships very carefully, which is perhaps not a surprise in an age where homosexuality was illegal and punishable by a prison sentence, but during his life he never hid (to put it mildly) his homosexuality, and was one of the first actors in British cinema to be identifiably 'gay' in the characters that he played. His outrageous drunken promiscuity however, did not portray homosexuality in a positive light to an unsympathetic world, nor did his general demeanour with those around him earn him many (if any) close friends. Nevertheless a few anecdotes told by his Carry-On colleagues shed a little light on the character off the screen. Kenneth Williams records several encounters with Hawtrey in his 'Diaries' and 'Letters' (both published). He remembers a visit to Deal where Hawtrey's house was full of old brass bedsteads which the eccentric had kept, believing that one day he would make money from them. He would also wave with gusto at the sailors on the beach. Kenneth Charles Williams (22 February 1926 – 15 April 1988) was a British comic actor, star of over twenty films and notable radio comedies with Tony Hancock and Kenneth Horne, as well as a witty raconteur on a wide range of subjects. ...
Barbara Windsor in her autobiography talks openly about Hawtrey's alcohol problem. In Carry On Spying she thought he had fainted from fright at a dramatic scene on a conveyer belt. In fact he had passed out as he was drunk. When he came into filming with a crate of R. White's Lemonade, everyone knew that he had been on another heavy drinking binge. Barbara Windsor MBE (born Barbara-Ann Deeks on August 6, 1937, in Shoreditch, London) is a British actress. ...
Carry On Spying is the ninth movie in the Carry On movie series. ...
Joan Sims could apparently communicate with him in a private language called 'Telegraphese'. He would smoke woodbines profusely and play cards during takes with Sid James and his gang. He was godfather to Richard O'Callaghan (son of Patricia Hayes) who played in Carry On Loving, and was also looked up to by Jim Dale as a type of mentor in comic timing. This was Hawtrey's absolute strength. Irene Joan Marian Sims (May 9, 1930, Laindon, Essex - June 28, 2001) was a British actress. ...
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A lot of strain was put on him by his mother who suffered senile dementia in later years. One story has the old woman's handbag catching fire when her cigarette ash fell in. Hawtrey, without batting an eyelid, poured a glass of water to put out the flames, snapped the purse shut and continued with his story. His mother would also collect toilet rolls and on another visit to the studios blocked the women's toilets with paper.
Laurence Olivier, one of the greatest 20th century British actors, once drove past in his chauffered limousine as Hawtrey stood at the bus-stop after a day's filming. Olivier was so aghast that a great comic was being treated in this way that every day he offered to give the actor a lift in the car. Laurence Olivier, as photographed in 1939 by Carl Van Vechten Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (22 May 1907–11 July 1989) was an Oscar winning English actor and director, regarded by many critics as the greatest actor of the 20th century. ...
In the introduction to the Beatles song "Two Of Us" (from the Let It Be album), Phil Spector included a bit of chatter into the beginning, and John Lennon can clearly be heard saying, "I Dig A Pygmy by Charles Hawtrey and the Deaf-Aids...Phase One, in which Doris gets her oats." The song was recorded in 1969 around the time of 'Carry on Camping' - 'the Deaf-Aids' is the name given to the amplifiers used by the Beatles. It is not clear whether or not Lennon was a fan of Charles Hawtrey. The Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 as part of their first tour of the United States, promoting their first hit single there, I Want To Hold Your Hand. ...
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The falling-out between Hawtrey and the Carry-On producer, Peter Rogers, came about partly through drink, but partly because he had hoped for higher billing. Pay for the films was bad and without either Sid James or Kenneth Williams starring in the 1971 Christmas special, Hawtrey believed it was his due to get top billing. However, the producers went with Hattie Jacques who they believed was better known on tv. Rogers tried to contact Hawtrey a day before filming began at the hotel where Hawtrey regularly dined. He asked him to reconsider but he declined. He never worked for the Carry-Ons again. Peter Rogers (born 20 February 1914 in Rochester, Kent) is a British film producer. ...
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Josephine Edwina Jacques (February 7, 1922 - October 6, 1980), better known by the stage name Hattie Jacques, was a British comedy actress born in Sandgate, Kent. ...
Hawtrey finally retired to Deal in Kent in the 1980s where he continued to battle against alcoholism. He made the news in August 1984 when his house caught fire after he left a cigarette burning on the sofa. When rescued by firemen, a pathetic character, without the grotesque ill fitting wig he always wore, he tried to re-enter the house pleading that 'my fags are next to the bed, and my boyfriend's in it!' He had suffered from arthritis for a long time, and by October 1988, following a fall in a public house, his doctors told him that the condition (compounded by smoking) had become so serious that his legs would have to be amputated. He refused, and died almost a month later, aged 73. His ashes were scattered in the tranquility of Mortlake Crematorium close to Chiswick in London. Deal is a town in Kent, England. ...
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Film career (1922-1972) Hawtrey acted in films from an early age, appearing in an impressive array of films while still a boy, and as an adult his youthful appearance and wit made him an excellent foil to Will Hay's blundering old fool in the comedy films Good Morning, Boys (1937), Where's That Fire? (1940), The Ghost of St Michael's (1941) and The Goose Steps Out (1942). William Thompson Hay (December 6, 1888 – April 18, 1949) was a British comedian, actor and amateur astronomer. ...
Good Morning, Boys is a 1936 British comedy film. ...
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Hawtrey also took a hand at directing films himself, which included in 1945 What Do We Do Now? a musical-mystery written by the English author George Cooper, and starring George Moon as Wesley (later to be seen as Mr Giles in Carry on Dick). Also in 1945, Hawtrey directed the distinguished British actress Dame Flora Robson in Dumb Dora Discovers Tobacco. Flora Robson (March 28, 1902 - July 7, 1984) was a British actress renowned as one of the great character players and one of Britains theatrical grandes dames. ...
He became a core member of the Carry On series of films throughout the 1960s and 70s, mostly playing characters that ranged from the wimpish through the effete to the effeminate. He revealed little about his private life and went into retirement in Deal, Kent after being dropped from the series. His last film was Carry On Abroad (1972). Hawtrey's growing alcohol consumption, which had began to noticeably worsen since Carry On Cowboy in 1965, was beginning to affect his work. The last straw occurred in 1972 when, in a bid to finally gain higher billing, Hawtrey withdrew from a Carry On Christmas television program he was scheduled to appear in, giving just a few days' notice for his absence (despite appearing in promotional material). With the absence of both Sid James and Kenneth Williams, Hawtrey had expected to be given the top bill, but that was offered to Hattie Jacques - who, at the time, certainly had a higher TV profile. After this producer Peter Rogers stopped using him for Carry On roles. Without these films, Hawtrey slipped into the relative obscurity of panto and provincial summer seasons where he played on his 'Carry On' persona. The Carry On films were a long-running series of British popular low-budget comedy films, directed by Gerald Thomas and produced by Peter Rogers. ...
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Deal is a town in Kent, England. ...
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Theatre career (1925 onwards) Charles Hawtrey made his first appearance on the stage in Boscombe, on the English south coast, as early as 1925. At the delicate age of 11 he played a street arab in Frederick Bowyer's fairy play 'The Windmill Man'. Boscombe is a small town, which is now a suburb of the much larger Bournemouth. ...
His London stage debut followed a few years later when, at the age of 18, he appeared in yet another 'fairy extravaganza' this time at the Scala Theatre singing the role of the White Cat and Bootblack in the juvenile opera, "Bluebell in Fairyland". The music for this popular show had been originally written by Walter Slaughter in 1905, and was based on the book by Seymour Hicks (providing the inspiration for Barrie's 'Peter Pan').
Hawtrey continued to appear in a number of plays throughout the 1930s and 1940s in the run-up to the Second World War. In Peter Pan at the London Palladium in 1931 he played the First Twin, with leading parts taken by Jean Forbes-Robertson and George Curzon. This played in several regional theatres, including His Majesty's Theatre in Aberdeen, Scotland. Five years later in 1936 he played in a revival of the play, this time taking the bigger role of 'Slightly', alongside the celebrated husband-wife partnership of Elsa Lanchester and Charles Laughton (playing Peter and Hook respectively). A review in the Daily Telegraph newspaper commended him for having "a comedy sense not unworthy of his famous name". Statue of Peter Pan in St. ...
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Charles Laughton as photographed in 1940 by Carl Van Vechten Charles Laughton (July 1, 1899 - December 15, 1962) was a British-born American stage and film actor. ...
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By 1937 Hawtrey was playing in "Bats in the Belfry", a farce written by Diana Morgan and Robert MacDermott, and which opened at the Ambassador's Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, on 11 March. The cast included Ivor Barnard, and Dame Lilian Braithwaite, as well as the soon to be famous Vivien Leigh in the small part of Jessica Morton. The play ran for an impressive 178 performances, before moving to the Golders Green Hippodrome in Barnet on 16 August 1937. Vivien Leigh photographed in 1958 Vivien Leigh (November 5, 1913 – July 8, 1967) was an English actress who achieved outstanding success in theatre and cinema. ...
In 1939 Hawtrey had another success, when he notably took the role of Gremio in Tyrone Guthrie's production of 'The Taming of the Shrew' at the Old Vic, also earning favourable reviews. Roger Livesey starred as Petruchio and his wife, Ursula Jeans, as Katherine. Taming of the Shrew by Augustus Egg The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare. ...
The Old Vic is a theatre in the Waterloo area of London. ...
Roger Livesey as Clive Candy, in the duel scene from Colonel Blimp. ...
Hawtrey's rave notices in music revue continued for Eric Maschwitz's, 'New Faces' (1940) at the Comedy Theatre in London, particularly for his "chic and finished study of an alluring woman spy". Maschwitz had worked in the 1930s in Hollywood under contract to MGM, writing the screenplay for the Oscar-winning 'Goodbye Mr Chips', before returning to England to work in light entertainment. 'New Faces' was particularly remembered for the premier of the song, 'A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square', which quickly became a wartime favourite. During and after the Second World War he appeared in the West End in such shows as Scoop, Old Chelsea, Merry England, Frou-Frou and Husbands Don’t Count. Eric Maschwitz (1901-1969) (sometimes credited as Holt Marvell) was a British entertainer, writer and broadcaster. ...
Hawtrey also directed as many as 19 theatre plays, including 'Dumb Dora Discovers Tobacco' at the Q Theatre in Richmond. Built on the Brentford side of Kew Bridge in 1924 (with 500 seats), over 1,000 plays were presented here until it was demolished in 1958. In 1945, Hawtrey also directed 'Oflag 3', a Second World War play co-written with Douglas Bader. Brentford is a place in the London Borough of Hounslow on the River Thames in South West London. ...
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By the 1970s he was appearing in shows and pantomime, including 'Carry-On Holiday Show-time' and 'Snow White' at the Gaiety Theatre, Rhyl in Wales (summer 1970), and 'Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs' again at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham, alongside Bryan Johnson, Syd Jackson and Dick Collins (April 1974).
Radio and Music Career (1930-85) Charles Hawtrey was an accomplished musician (and had been a semi-professional pianist for the armed forces during WWII), and recorded several records as a boy soprano. He was billed as "The Angel-voiced Choirboy" even at the age of fifteen. In 1930 he made several duets with girl soprano Evelyn Griffiths (aged 11) for the Regal label. Boy soprano (or treble in British English; see below) is a term applied in music to a young male singer with an unchanged voice in the soprano range. ...
- Hush here comes the Dream Man (Rec. 15 March 1930 - cond. Stanford Robinson).
- I don't want to play in your Yard (Rec. 15 March 1930).
- Home Sweet Home (Rec. 24 May 1930 - string quartet & Eustace Pett, organ, cond. Stanford Robinson).
- Sweet and low (Rec. 24 May 1930).
- While Shepherds watched (Rec. 13 Sept. 1930 - string quartet & Muntel organ).
- Hark the Herald Angels Sing (Rec. 13 Sept. 1930)
By the 1940s, Hawtrey was appearing on radio during Children's Hour in the Norman Bones, Boy Detective series alongside the actress Patricia Hayes (first broadcast in 1943). Later he also played the voice of snooty Hubert Lane, the nemesis of William in the 'Just William' series. His catchphrase was "How's yer mother of for dripping?" Patricia Hayes, CBE (born Patricia Lawlor Hayes on December 22, 1909 in Camberwell; died September 19, 1998 in London) was a British-born comedy actress of Irish Catholic extraction. ...
Just William is the first book of childrens short stories about William Brown written by Richmal Crompton, published in 1922. ...
During the 1970s and 80s Hawtrey also played parts in a few radio plays for the BBC written by Wally K. Daly:
- 'Burglar's Bargains' (1979) - Peter Jones, Lockwood West, and Bernard Bresslaw. A gang of crooks rob Harrod's. But they're not ordinary crooks.
- 'A right royal rip-off' (1982) - Peter Jones, Lockwood West, and Bernard Bresslaw. A gang are planning to steal the crown jewels.
- 'The Bigger they are' (1985). The gang plan a robbery, giving the Mafia their comeuppance.
Morrissey was an admirer and in the early 1980s, The Smiths approached Hawtrey to sing on a new version of their debut single, "Hand in Glove". Hawtrey did not respond. Morrissey had to go with his second choice, Sandie Shaw, and Hawtrey's opportunity to revive his fame disappeared. Hawtrey's face, however, did appear posthumously on the cover of The Very Best of The Smiths album in 2001, although the album and the cover art was criticised, and Morrissey later distanced himself from the album. Morrissey (born Steven Patrick Morrissey, on May 22, 1959), is a singer and songwriter from Stretford, Manchester, England, who rose to prominence as the vocalist of the highly influential British rock group The Smiths. ...
The Smiths were a British rock group active from 1982 to 1987. ...
Sandie Shaw (real name Sandra Ann Goodrich) (born February 26, 1947) was the most successful British girl singer of the 1960s. ...
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Television career (1956-87) Hawtrey's television career began in the 1950s with 'The Army Game' where he played the part of Private 'Professor' Hatchett. The Army Game was a British television series about life in National Service broadcast between 1957 and 1961 by Granada Television . ...
Loosely based on the 1956 movie Private's Progress, the series followed the fortunes of a mixed bag of army conscripts in residence at Hut 29 of the Surplus Ordnance Depot at Nether Hopping in remote Staffordshire. At the forefront of this gang were Pte 'Excused Boots' (aka 'Bootsie') Bisley played by comedian Alfie Bass, Cpl Springer (Michael Medwin), Pte 'Cupcake' Cook (Norman Rossington), Pte 'Popeye' Popplewell (Bernard Bresslaw) and future Doctor Who William Hartnell as bellowing Sgt Major Bullimore. Popplewell's catch phrase "I only arsked" became a national catch-phrase and became the title for a 1958 feature film based on the series. A number of cast changes from 1958 onwards affected the show's popularity and ultimately led to its demise. The first to leave were Hawtrey, Bresslaw and Hartnell; Hartnell's replacement was Bill Fraser, as Sgt-Major Claude Snudge, who, after The Army Game was axed, starred with Alfie Bass in the spin-off series 'Bootsie and Snudge'. Privates Progress is a British comedy film of 1956, based on the novel by Alan Hackney. ...
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Bill Fraser in Doctor Who in 1980. ...
Bootsie and Snudge was a series written by Barry Took and Marty Feldman, also known for the BBC radio series Round the Horne. ...
Hawtrey also made a brief appearance in 1956 in 'Tess and Tim' (BBC TV) under the Saturday Comedy Hour banner. This short-run series starred the musical comedians Tessie O'Shea and Jimmy Wheeler. Tessie OShea was born in Cardiff in 1913. ...
The same year, the comedian Digby Wolfe appeared in ATV's Wolfe At The Door, a 12-week sketch show, not screened in London but which ran in the Midlands from 18 June to 10 September 1956. In this, Wolfe explored the comic situations that could be found by passing through doorways - into a theatrical dressing-room, for example. The programmes were written by Tony Hawes and Richard Waring, and Charles Hawtrey appeared alongside fellow carry-on co-star Hattie Jacques. The following year, in 1957, Hawtrey appeared in a one-off episode of 'Laughter In Store' (BBC) working with the comic actors Charlie Drake and Irene Handl. Charlie Drake (born Charles Edward Springall, on 19 June 1925, in South London) is an English comedian, actor, writer and singer. ...
Irene Handl (December 27, 1901 – November 29, 1987) was an English film actress. ...
In 'Our House' (1960) Charles Hawtrey played the character of council official, Simon Willow. The series was created by Norman Huddis, who had written the first five Carry On movies, and in the opening episode ('Moving Into Our House') two couples and five individuals meet at an estate agent's and realise that if they pool their resources they can buy a house big enough to accommodate them all. Hattie Jacques as librarian Georgina Ruddy, who was forced to keep quiet at work and so made up for it by being extremely noisy at home, was arguably the star of the series. Joan Sims starred as the unemployable Daisy Burke. Josephine Edwina Jacques (February 7, 1922 - October 6, 1980), better known by the stage name Hattie Jacques, was a British comedy actress born in Sandgate, Kent. ...
Irene Joan Marian Sims (May 9, 1930, Laindon, Essex - June 28, 2001) was a British actress. ...
The series initially ran for 13 episodes from September to December 1960, returning the following year with Bernard Bresslaw and Hylda Baker as Henrietta added to the cast. Of the 39 episodes in total, only three survive today. Hylda Baker (born February 4, 1908 in Farnworth; died May 1, 1986 in Epsom) was a Northern English comedy actress. ...
'Best of Friends' (ITV - 1963) had essentially the same writers and production team as 'Our House'. Hawtrey again acted alongside Hylda Baker, but this time playing the role simply of Charles, a clerk in an insurance office situated next door to a café run by Baker. She accompanied him on insurance assignments and protected him when he was feeling put upon by his Uncle Sidney, who wished to - but could not - dismiss his nephew from the firm. 13 episodes in total (B&W) were made.
In 1970 he played in the series Stop Exchange with Sid James that was broadcast in South Africa. In the 1970s he made an appearance in Grasshopper Island for ITV a wholesome children's programme alongside Patricia Hayes, Julian Orchard, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Frank Muir. Filmed in the seventies in Wales and Corsica, this adventure series had three small brothers nicknamed Toughy, Smarty and Mouse who run away to find an uninhabited island - as far as possible from the do’s and don’ts of the real world. Julian Orchard (born 3 March 1930, in Wheatley, England — died 21 June 1979, in London, England, was a British comedy actor. ...
Tim Brooke-Taylor (April 2000) Tim Brooke-Taylor (born July 17, 1940 in Buxton, Derbyshire, England) is a British comic actor most well known in Britain as a member of The Goodies comedy trio and as one of the panel members of the comedy radio show Im Sorry I...
Frank Muir (5 February 1920 - 2 January 1998) was an English comedy writer, radio and television personality, and raconteur. ...
Charles also appeared sometime around 1981 in an episode of the children's tv quiz programme, 'Runaround' broadcast by Southern (on ITV). The series was hosted by the comedian Mike Reid, and Hawtrey featured in series 12 (programme 7), the 'Horror Special'. Mike Reid (born 1939) is a fast-talking, gravel-voiced British cockney comedian and character actor. ...
Hawtrey's last appearance on TV was as Clarence, Duke of Claridge in a special edition of the children's programme, 'Supergran and the State Visit'. The series had adapted the popular books by Forrest Wilson and related the adventures of a happy and gentle old lady, known as Granny Smith, played by Gudrun Ure. The comedian Billy Connolly also appeared in the episode. The Big Yin William Billy Connolly, CBE, D.Litt (born 24 November 1942) is a comedian, musician, presenter, and actor. ...
- Tess and Time (1956)
- Wolfe at the Door (1956)
- Laughter in Store (1957)
- The Army Game (1957-1958)
- Laughter in Store (1957)
- Our House (1960)
- Best of Friends (1963)
- Ghosts of Christmas or Carry On Christmas (1969)
- Carry On Long John (1970)
- Stop Exchange (1970)
- Grasshopper Island (1970s)
- The Princess and the Pea (1979)
- The Plank (1979)
- Runaround (1981)
- Supergran and the State Visit (1987)
Filmography as actor (1922-1972) A Canterbury Tale (1944) is a British film by the film-making team of Powell & Pressburger. ...
A British comedy film Passport To Pimlico (Ealing Studios made in 1948). ...
Carry On Sergeant is the first Carry On film, and its first public screening was on 1st August 1958 at Screen One, London. ...
Carry On Nurse is the second Carry On film, released in 1959. ...
Carry On Teacher is the third Carry On film, released in 1959. ...
Carry On Constable is the fourth Carry On film. ...
Dentist on the Job was a 1961 British comedy film, in black and white, directed by C.M. Pennington-Richards. ...
Carry on Regardless is the fifth Carry on // Plot Summary for Carry On Regardless The Helping Hands agency employs some very strange people to perform some very strange jobs! Even the simplest of tasks get bungled by the incompetent but lovable staff, as they get given jobs ranging from taking...
Carry on Cabby is the seventh Carry on film. ...
Carry on Jack is the eighth movie in the Carry On movie series. ...
Carry On Spying is the ninth movie in the Carry On movie series. ...
The Carry On films were a long-running series of British popular low_budget comedy films, directed by Gerald Thomas and produced by Peter Rodgers. ...
Carry On Cowboy is the eleventh in the Carry On series of films. ...
Carry On Screaming! is the 12th film in the Carry On series. ...
Dont Lose your head is the thirteenth Carry on Film it is set in France and England during the time of the French revolution. ...
Carry On Doctor is the fifteenth Carry on film // Plot Summery Francis Bigger, preacher and healer, ends up in hospital in this chaotic Carry-on medical movie. ...
Carry On up the Khyber is the sixteenth Carry On film, released in 1968. ...
Carry On Camping is arguably one of the most famous Carry On films, released on 3 July 1969 in the UK, but produced in late 1968. ...
The Carry On films were a long-running series of British popular low_budget comedy films, directed by Gerald Thomas and produced by Peter Rodgers. ...
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The Carry On films were a long-running series of British popular low_budget comedy films, directed by Gerald Thomas and produced by Peter Rodgers. ...
Carry On Abroad is the twenty fourth Carry On film, released in 1972. ...
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