Charles Hawtrey (actor, born 1914) Hawtrey also took a hand at directing films himself, including "What Do We Do Now?" (1945) a musical mystery written by the English author George Cooper and starring George Moon. Around the same time Hawtrey directed Flora Robson in "Dumb Dora Discovers Tobacco" (1946). Both films are believed lost. In 1948, Hawtrey appeared at the Windmill Theatre, Soho in comedy sketches presented as part of "Revudeville". In 1956 Hawtrey appeared alongside his future "Carry On" co-star Hattie Jacques in the comedian Digby Wolfe's ATV series "Wolfe at the Door", a 12-week sketch show. Not screened in London, it ran in
Kenneth Williams the news, Kenneth went on stage in the West End. The coroner's court recorded a verdict of accidental death due to corrosive poisoning by carbon tetrachloride. Kenneth believed his father had committed suicide as the circumstances leading to the poisoning seemed unlikely to have happened by bad luck. Williams would later be denied a visa to the United States, when it emerged that Scotland Yard kept a file on him relating to his father's death - the suspicion that he had poisoned his father. Williams insisted that he was celibate and his diaries substantiate his claims—at least from his early