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 T. Williams Kenneth T. Williams Kenneth T. Williams (born 1965) is a Cree playwright. He is from the Gordon First Nation, Saskatchewan in what is known as Treaty 4 territory. However, from the age of 12 through his early adulthood he lived off-reserve in Edmonton. Williams completed a B. A. and then became the first Indigenous person to earn an M.F.A. in playwriting from the University of Alberta in 1992. He currently lives in Saskatoon but still spends much of his time in Edmonton. Williams jokes he had the worst career path in Canadian theatre. He worked as an encyclopedia salesman on