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 the news, Kenneth went on stage in the West End. The coroner's court recorded a verdict of accidental death due to corrosive poisoning by carbon tetrachloride. Kenneth believed his father had committed suicide as the circumstances leading to the poisoning seemed unlikely to have happened by bad luck. Williams would later be denied a visa to the United States, when it emerged that Scotland Yard kept a file on him relating to his father's death - the suspicion that he had poisoned his father. Williams insisted that he was celibate and his diaries substantiate his claims—at least from his early