Kenneth Connor Alongside Kenneth Williams and Eric Barker, Connor was one of only three actors to appear in both the first and last of the original sequence of "Carry On" films ("Carry On Sergeant" and "Carry On Emmannuelle"). In his earlier "Carry On" appearances, Connor frequently played the romantic lead or other sympathetic roles (typically with an element of comically neurotic anxiety), while later appearances saw him play less sympathetic characters such as married men with wandering eyes and lascivious remarks. In "Carry On Nurse" (1959), his real-life son Jeremy appeared as his character Bernie Bishop's son. In 1961, he starred with
Kenneth Williams Parkinson's chat show on eight occasions, regaling audiences with anecdotes from his career. Williams was a stand-in host on the "Wogan" talk show in 1986. He voiced the cartoon series "Willo the Wisp" (1981). Williams was a long-serving member of the council and executive committee of the actors' trade union Equity. On 14 October 1962, Kenneth's father, Charlie Williams, was taken to hospital after drinking carbon tetrachloride that had been stored in a cough-mixture bottle. Kenneth, who had never got on well with his father, refused to visit him. The following day, Charlie died and, an hour after being given