Kenneth Connor On film, "Carry On Teacher". On occasion he appeared in "The Goon Show", standing in for regular cast members struck down by illness. He also appeared in the anarchic, Goon-style TV series "The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d" (1956) and "A Show Called Fred" (1956). In 1955, Connor gained a small role in the film "The Ladykillers" (1955) as a taxi driver. In 1958, he was cast in the first "Carry On" film, "Carry On Sergeant", and became one of the regular cast in the series, appearing in seventeen of the original thirty films and many of the associated television productions.
Kenneth Williams abandoned Christianity following discussions with the poet Philip Larkin. Williams had been a Methodist, though he spent much of his life struggling with Christianity's teachings on homosexuality. "Kenneth Williams Unseen" by Wes Butters and Russell Davies, the first Williams biography in 15 years, was published in October 2008. An authorised biography, "Born Brilliant: The Life of Kenneth Williams", by Christopher Stevens, was published in October 2010. This drew for the first time on the full Williams archive of diaries and letters, which had been stored in a London bank for 15 years following publication of edited extracts. The biography notes