Shaun Williamson In 2009, Williamson toured the UK playing habitual criminal Norman Stanley Fletcher in a stage version of the classic TV comedy "Porridge". The script had been newly written by the series' co-authors, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. In 2012, he toured in a stage revival of the Ealing Studios film "The Ladykillers". He also played the roles of Baron Bomburst and Lord Scrumptious in the UK tour production of "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang". In 2007, he appeared in the British film "Daylight Robbery" where he played the role of a police chief. He also appeared, alongside Stephen Merchant, in
In Which We Serve US, earning $1.8 million in rentals. Bosley Crowther of "The New York Times" observed, "There have been other pictures which have vividly and movingly conveyed in terms of human emotion the cruel realities of this present war. None has yet done it so sharply and so truly as "In Which We Serve"... For the great thing which Mr. Coward has accomplished in this film is a full and complete expression of national fortitude ... Yes, this is truly a picture in which the British may take a wholesome pride and we may regard as an excellent expression of British strength."