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.
Carry On (franchise) original actors Barbara Windsor, Jack Douglas, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Connor and Joan Sims, with Sims filling in the role of matron that was previously held by Hattie Jacques. The end of the film was going to be a tribute to Jacques, with Sims turning around a photograph of the actress and asking "Well, did I do alright?" (the script is included in the book "The Lost Carry Ons"). Production was scheduled to begin in June 1988, but the deaths of Williams and Hawtrey (in April and October 1988 respectively), combined with a budget of £1.5 million which was