Charles Hawtrey (actor, born 1914) the British regional tour of the stage musical "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum", which also included his "Carry On" co-star Kenneth Connor. Despite making a handsome return for its producer, Peter Rogers, the "Carry On" cast were not well remunerated, commonly a standard fee of £5,000 per film. Hawtrey used public transport to get to and from work - although he was once given a lift to Pinewood Studios by Laurence Olivier. Requested to embrace Barbara Windsor at a meeting with the press, Hawtrey hurriedly left the room requesting a man in her place. Hawtrey
Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! is a 2006 BBC Four television play starring Michael Sheen as the English comic actor Kenneth Williams, based on Williams' own diaries. Cheryl Campbell plays Williams's beloved mother, Lou. Michael Sheen performed extensive research for the role, watching hundreds of hours of archive footage and reading dozens of books. He also followed the cabbage soup diet to lose to play Williams. The drama received good reviews, with "The Observer "singling out Sheen's performance as "a characterisation for which the description tour-de-force is, frankly, pretty faint praise". "The Times" compared Sheen's performance to "a diamond