a long and lasting association with the comedian. His success in Ray’s A Laugh saw Ted Ray engage him as his top supporting player in the television series, The Ted Ray Show.
He went on to feature in the 1955 comedy, The Ladykillers, before appearing in the first of many Carry On roles. Other film credits include Poison Pen, The Black Rider, Davy, Make Mine a Million, Watch Your Stern, Nearly A Nasty Accident, Dentist on the Job, What a Carve Up and Rhubarb.
CARRY ON CONSTABLE
An Anglo Amalgamated release
A Peter Rogers production
Based on an idea by Brock Williams
Released as a U certificate in 1960 in black & white Running time: 86 mins
CAST
| Sidney James | Sergeant Frank Wilkins |
| Eric Barker | Inspector Mills |
| Kenneth Connor | Constable Charlie Constable |
| Charles Hawtrey | PC Timothy Gorse |
| Kenneth Williams | PC Stanley Benson |
| Leslie Phillips | PC Tom Potter |
| Joan Sims | WPC Gloria Passworthy |
| Hattie Jacques | Sgt Laura Moon |
| Cyril Chamberlain | Thurston |
| Shirley Eaton | Sally Barry |
| Joan Hickson | Mrs May |
| Irene Handl | Distraught Woman |
| Terence Longdon | Herbert Hall |
| Freddie Mills | Crook |
| Jill Adams | WPC Harrison |
| Brian Oulton | Store Manager |
| Victor Maddern | Criminal Type |
| Joan Young | Suspect |
| Esma Cannon | Deaf Old Lady |
| Hilda Fenemore | Agitated Woman |
| Noel Dyson | Vague Woman |
| Robin Ray | Assistant Manager |
| Michael Balfour | Matt |
| Diane Aubrey | Honoria |
| Ian Curry | Eric |
| Mary Law | 1st Shop Assistant |
| Lucy Griffiths | Miss Horton |
| Peter Bennett | Thief |
| Jack Taylor | Cliff |
| Eric Boon | Shorty |
| Janetta Lake | Girl with dog |
| Dorinda Stevens | Young Woman |
| Ken Kennedy | Wall-eyed Man |
| Jeremy Connor | Willy |
| Tom Gill | |
| Frank Forsyth | |
| John Antrobus | |
| Eric Corrie | |
| Anthony Sagar | Citizens |
PRODUCTION TEAM
Screenplay by Norman Hudis
Music composed and directed by Bruce Montgomery
Art Director: Carmen Dillon
Director of Photography: Ted Scaife
Editor: John Shirley
Production Manager: Frank Bevis
Camera Operator: Alan Hume
Assistant Director: Peter Manley
Sound Editor: Leslie Wiggins
Sound Recordists: Robert T. MacPhee and Bill Daniels
Continuity: Joan Davis
Make-up: George Blackler
Hairdressing: Stella Rivers
Dress Designer: Yvonne Caffin
Set Dressing: Vernon Dixon
Casting Director: Betty White
Producer: Peter Rogers
Director: Gerald Thomas
Sgt. Moon (Hattie Jacques) and Sgt. Wilkins (Sid James) make the perfect partnership
Benson (Kenneth Williams) and Potter (Leslie Phillips) patrol their beat
A flu epidemic sweeps Britain, affecting every industry, including the police force. With constables dropping like flies, raw recruits just out of training school are thrown into the thick of the action, as well as the incorrigible Timothy Gorse, a special constable whose services are only called upon as a last resort.
Before long, the new faces, except for the efficient WPC Passworthy, are causing chaos wherever they tread. After coming to the assistance of a distraught mother who thinks she’s lost her little boy, Gorse decides to play around on the boy’s scooter, only to find himself bumping into PC Benson, who’s out walking Lady, a police dog. As they crash down some steps, the dog runs off.
Benson regards himself as an expert in the physiology of the criminal mind, claiming he can spot a crook a mile off. When a man bumps into him in the street, Benson doesn’t regard the man as anything but a law-abiding member of the public, that is until his trousers fall to the ground because the passer-by has stolen his braces. Another example of his ineptness sees him trying to persuade a supposed car thief from committing a crime, only to discover that embarrassingly he’s accusing a detective sergeant from the CID.
With the threat of suspension hanging over their heads, the new recruits pound their beats in pairs. Potter and Benson spot the getaway car involved in a recent robbery, and identifying a way of redeeming themselves for the earlier fiascos, try and find the robbers themselves. Eventually assisted by Gorse, they manage to catch the crooks in an abandoned house but it’s the lazy, inefficient Inspector Mills who takes all the credit and is transferred to an area college where, ironically, he’ll be in charge of morale and discipline, with Sergeant Wilkins taking over the running of the station after his long-overdue promotion to inspector.
On television, he appeared in, among others, A Show Called Fred, Blackadder the Third, You Rang, M’Lord?, Rentaghost and provided the voices for the popular children’s show, Torchy the Battery Boy. But he’s probably best remembered in this medium for his performances as Monsieur Alfonse, the undertaker, in the sitcom ’Allo, ’Allo! and as Uncle Sammy Morris in the holiday camp sitcom, Hi-de-Hi!.
Awarded an MBE in 1991 for services to showbusiness, Connor was entertaining on BBC’s Noel’s House Party just two days before he died in 1993, aged seventy-five.
CONSTABLE
Played by Billy Cornelius
The police constable appears in Girls alongside the police inspector at the Palace Hotel investigating reports that Patricia Potter, who’s suspected of being a man, is back at the hotel.
CONSTABLE
Played by Kenneth Connor
The Parish Constable in Dick attempts to catch the elusive criminal, Dick Turpin. He’s way past his best-before date, though, and is rather hopeless when it comes to capturing the legendary highwayman.
CONSTABLE, CARRY ON
see feature box here.
CONSTABLE, CONSTABLE CHARLIE
Played by Kenneth Connor
One of the newly-graduated police constables who arrives on the scene in Constable. A nervous, highly superstitious man who can’t even attempt to develop a relationship with WPC Passworthy until he knows whether her birthday lands under the correct planetary sign, such is his reliance on astrology.
CONTE FILLIPO DI PISA
Played by Alan Curtis
Arrives in Henry to talk to Cardinal Wolsey about King Henry’s application for an annulment of his wedding