Kenneth Williams
Acting
Biography
Kenneth Williams was an English comic actor, star of 26 Carry On films, numerous British television shows, and radio comedies with Tony Hancock and Kenneth Horne.
Born: February 22, 1926
Place of Birth: Islington, London, England, UK
Known For
Love Me, Love Me, Love Me.
A short film by Richard Williams.
What's a Carry On?
Documentary commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 'Carry On' comedy film series. Archive clips and out-takes are mixed with interviews with the cast.
Willo the Wisp
Willo the Wisp is a British cartoon series originally produced in 1981.
Hancock's Half Hour
Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC television comedy series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock with Sid James. The final series, renamed simply Hancock, starred Hancock alone. Comedian Tony Hancock starred in the show, playing an exaggerated and much poorer version of his own character and lifestyle, Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, a down-at-heel comedian living at the dilapidated 23 Railway Cuttings in East Cheam. The series was influential in the development of the situation comedy, with its move away from radio variety towards a focus on character development.
An Audience with Kenneth Williams
Outstanding raconteur Kenneth Williams regales his spellbound audience in typical fashion with a long look back at his career - from his time entertaining troops in the army, his radio work (including the Hancock shows), his work in theatre and - of course - the highly successful series of Carry On films. Playing wonderfully to his audience of celebrities (which include Michael Parkinson, Ned Sherrin, Gordon Jackson and Carry On cohorts Joan Sims and Bernard Bresslaw) he even finds time to answer a few of their questions.
Make Mine Mink
In a mansion block in Knightsbridge, a gang of middle-aged biddies decide to brighten up "the dullness of the tea time of life" by staging a series of robberies on furriers, then donating the proceeds to charitable concerns. Terry Thomas as a retired army officer leads the gang, which includes Athene Seyler and Hattie Jacques, on a series of capers that nearly go awry when their maid, Billie Whitelaw, an ex-con and also a resident of the block, falls for a police officer.
The Thief and the Cobbler
Princess Yum Yum falls in love with Tack and saves him from being executed. Later, when the protective orbs of the palace get stolen, Tacka and Yum Yum set out to find them and save the kingdom.
The Light Princess
Based on a short story by George MacDonald, a princess experiences constant weightlessness.
Nothing Like a Dame
BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen together for the first time as they reminisce over a long summer weekend in a house Joan once shared with Sir Laurence Olivier.
Don't Lose Your Head
Amidst the French revolution, Citizen Robespierre is beheading the aristocracy! When word gets to England, noblemen Sir Rodney Ffing and Lord Darcy Pue take it upon themselves to aid their French counterparts. Sir Rodney is a master of disguise, and becomes 'The Black Fingernail' scourge of Camembert and Bidet, leaders of the French secret police.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archival footage)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Various Characters (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Self (Archive footage)
as Goblet / Tickle (voice)
as Himself
as Self
as Self - Presenter
as Willo the Wisp (voice) / Mavis Cruet (voice) / Evil Edna (voice)
as Thin Frog / Cat (voice)
as Emile Prevert
as Sir Henry Baskerville
as Self - Presenter
as Himself
as Professor Roland Crump
as Gnome 2
as Captain Desmond Fancey
as Mr. Stuart Farquhar
as Sir Bernard Cutting
as Mr. W.C. Boggs
as Thomas Cromwell
as Mr. Percival Snooper
as Dr. Frederick Carver
as Dr. Kenneth Soaper
as Rhandi Lal, the Khasi of Kalabar
as Dr. Kenneth Tinkle
as Commandant Maximilian Burger
as Citizen Camembert
as Dr. Olando Watt
as Judge Burke
as Julius Caesar
as Napoleon
as Agent Desmond Simpkins
as Captain Fearless
as Narrator
as Henry Halfpenny
as First Officer Leonard Marjoribanks
as Harold Chesney
as Francis Courtenay
as Policeman
as Hon. Freddie Warrington
as Constable Stanley Benson
as Vice-Consul
as Mr. Edwin Milton
as Oliver Reckitt
as Private James Bailey
as East Dulwich Yodelling Champion
as Maze Attendant (uncredited)
as A Very Serious Actor /Elijah and others
as Peter Wishart
as Jack the Pot Boy
as Window Dresser at London Airport
as Lloyd
as Horace Evans