Kenneth Williams

Kenneth Williams (February 22, 1926 - April 15, 1988)

Actor. Star of over twenty Carry On... films and notable radio comedies with Tony Hancock and Kenneth Horne.

Born in London, educated at Lylph tanley School and then apprenticed as a draughtsman. He joined the army aged 18, part of the Royal Engineers survey section in Bombay, but later he joined Combined Services Entertainment. After the war he had a number of roles in repertory theatre and his friend Joe Orton wrote Loot for him, playing Inspector Truscott (!). He had his break in radio comedy with Hancock's Half Hour from 1954 and then Beyond Our Ken, consolidating this with Round the Horne. In Round the Horne, his roles included the eccentric folk singer, Rambling Sid Rumpo, and as Sandy, of the extremely camp couple, Julian and Sandy (Julian played by Hugh Paddick); notable for their arch double entendres and use of the gay slang languge Polari. He was a regular for many years on the BBC radio panle game Just a Minute. He expanded then into television and British films.

Filmography incomplete
Carry On Sergeant (1958), Carry On Nurse (1958), Carry On Teacher (1959), Carry On Constable (1960), Carry On Regardless (1961), Twice Round the Daffodils (1962), Carry On Cruising (1962), Carry On Spying (1964), Carry On Jack (1964), Carry On Cowboy (1965), Carry On Cleo (1965), Carry On...Follow That Camel (1966), Don't Lose Your Head (1966), Carry On Screaming (1966), Carry On Doctor (1967), Carry On Up the Khyber (1968), Carry On Camping (1969), Carry On Again, Doctor (1969), Carry On Loving (1970), Carry On Henry (1971), Carry On at Your Convenience (1971), Carry On Matron (1972), Carry On Abroad (1973), Carry On Dick (1974), Carry On Behind (1975), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978), Carry On Emmanuelle(1978).