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 Williams: Fantabulosa! Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! is a 2006 BBC Four television play starring Michael Sheen as the English comic actor Kenneth Williams, based on Williams' own diaries. Cheryl Campbell plays Williams's beloved mother, Lou. Michael Sheen performed extensive research for the role, watching hundreds of hours of archive footage and reading dozens of books. He also followed the cabbage soup diet to lose to play Williams. The drama received good reviews, with "The Observer "singling out Sheen's performance as "a characterisation for which the description tour-de-force is, frankly, pretty faint praise". "The Times" compared Sheen's performance to "a diamond