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 Parkinson's chat show on eight occasions, regaling audiences with anecdotes from his career. Williams was a stand-in host on the "Wogan" talk show in 1986. He voiced the cartoon series "Willo the Wisp" (1981). Williams was a long-serving member of the council and executive committee of the actors' trade union Equity. On 14 October 1962, Kenneth's father, Charlie Williams, was taken to hospital after drinking carbon tetrachloride that had been stored in a cough-mixture bottle. Kenneth, who had never got on well with his father, refused to visit him. The following day, Charlie died and, an hour after being given