Charles Hawtrey (actor, born 1914) asking were children, which angered their parents. Kenneth Williams recorded a visit to Deal in Kent where Hawtrey owned a house full of old brass bedsteads that the eccentric actor had hoarded, believing that "one day he would make a great deal of money from them". Hawtrey spent most of his life living with his mother, who suffered senile dementia in later years. Another anecdote recounted by Williams describes how during the filming of "Carry On Teacher" Joan Sims cried out to Hawtrey that his mother's handbag had caught fire after her cigarette ash fell into it. Without batting an
Kenneth Charles Brown Kenneth Charles Brown Kenneth Charles Brown (February 13, 1925–June 24, 2016) was a Canadian diplomat. Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, he was the son of George Williams Brown and Vera Beatrice Kenny. He grew up in Toronto, Ontario, and attended the University of Toronto Schools. He graduated in Modern History and Modern Languages from Victoria College, University of Toronto in the class of 1945. In 1944, he joined the Canadian Army, serving in the Intelligence Corps in Northwestern Europe. In 1946, he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship (Canadian Forces Overseas) to study at Balliol College, Oxford. He read Philosophy,