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
James Kenneth Crone James Kenneth Crone James Kenneth Crone, often known as Kenneth Crone (August 16, 1941 – February 10, 2011) was a Texas Highway Patrol officer from 1967 to 1978. During his law enforcement career, he was kidnapped on May 2, 1969 by Robert Dent and Ila Fae Holiday and then taken on a slow-moving caravan across south Texas. This event was dramatized in the 1974 feature film "The Sugarland Express"—the directorial debut of Steven Spielberg. Crone was an advisor on the film and actually played a small role in the filming of the movie starring as a deputy sheriff. Crone was