Cor, Blimey! more. For the final scene only Windsor replaces Spiro to play herself. Geoffrey Hutchings found it difficult to play Sid James because there was little archive material of James as himself. The actor used James' distinctive "guttural laugh" as a "way in" to the character. Samantha Spiro "felt a sense of responsibility" playing Barbara Windsor, who appears as herself in the final scene. The drama is a fictionalised account of the affair which happened between Windsor and James. Fellow "Carry On" actors Bernard Bresslaw, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey and Joan Sims are seen as minor characters. The action covers the
Kenneth Connor honoured by the Queen with appointment as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1991. He was still working just two days before his death, with an appearance on "Noel Edmond's Telly Addicts". His final TV appearance, as Mr Warren in "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" episode "The Adventure of the Red Circle", was broadcast posthumously in 1994. Connor died of cancer at his home in Harrow, Middlesex in 1993, and was survived by his wife Margaret (Miki), his son and three grandchildren, Thomas, Hayley and Rose, all of whom have been child actors. Kenneth Connor