Carry On Nurse Carry On Nurse Carry On Nurse is the second in the series of "Carry On" films with 31 entries. It was released in 1959, premiering in London at the Carlton Cinema on 5 March 1959 before going on general release nationwide from 23 March 1959. Of the regular team, it featured Joan Sims (in her "Carry On" film debut), Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor and Charles Hawtrey, with Hattie Jacques and Leslie Phillips. The film was written by Norman Hudis based on the play "Ring for Catty" by Patrick Cargill and Jack Beale. It was the top-grossing film of 1959 in
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