to clean up Stodge City; Knutt, meanwhile, thinks he’s been appointed to clear out the town’s drains.
En route to Stodge, Annie has the chance to show off her prowess with the gun. Worried about the arrival of a new marshal, the Rumpo Kid, not wanting to be implicated himself, seeks the help of a local Indian tribe to try and prevent Knutt reaching Stodge. When they attack the travelling stagecoach carrying Knutt and Oakley, they didn’t expect to be facing a crack shot. Surviving the attack, Knutt thinks he was the one who successfully saw off the Indian threat.
Still desperate to find a way of ridding the town of Marshall P. Knutt, Johnny Finger hatches a plot whereby the marshal is tipped off about cattle-rustling taking place that night. The judge tells Marshall to take a posse out with him but he has trouble recruiting anyone, so Johnny gives him two of his own men. Arriving at the ranch, he’s accused of horse-rustling and finds himself with a hangman’s noose over his head. It looks like it’s curtains for Marshall Knutt until Annie Oakley comes to the rescue.
Back in Stodge City, Annie entices Johnny Finger up to her bedroom and finds a way of getting him to admit to killing her father; she invites him back later and in preparation for his visit rigs up her gun to shoot him when he opens the door. Fortunately for Johnny Finger, his sidekick, Charlie, enters her room first and is killed.
Later, when the judge lets on to the Rumpo Kid that the marshal isn’t actually a marshal, but an engineer sent to the town by mistake, he vows to kill him. Annie Oakley tries to persuade Marshall to leave town, revealing that she was the one who shot the Indians. Marshall isn’t going to run, though, and has a plan he’s confident will work if she can help him become a crack shot in the two hours remaining before the Rumpo Kid’s arrival in town.
He may not know his way around a gun, but Marshall P. Knutt is an expert when it comes to drains and sets about nailing the Rumpo Kid once and for all.
The Rumpo Kid (Sid James) meets his match in the unlikely shape of Marshall Knutt (Jim Dale)
Nowadays, he can be found helping his son run fruit stalls at Putney and Clapham Junction.
CORNELIUS, JOE
Role: Second in Loving
Born in London in 1928, Joe Cornelius started his working life, aged fourteen, in the printing trade. A keen amateur wrestler, by the time he was twenty-two he’d decided to turn pro and travelled to Berlin for his first bout. During a career spanning two decades, he fought around the world, including China and Japan, and was crowned Southern Area heavyweight champion and runner-up in the nationals.
He made occasional television and film appearances, including Adam Adamant Lives! and The Befrienders for the small screen and The File of the Golden Goose, Trog and The Dirty Dozen for the big screen.
After quitting wrestling in 1973, he managed various pubs in London before retiring to Lanzarote, where he remained for six years. Now lives in Spain.
CORRIE, ERIC
Role: Citizen in Constable
On screen since the 1950s, his television work included The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Adventures of Sir Lancelot and Doomwatch, while his film credits ranged from The Colditz Story and A Hill in Korea to The Quatermass Xperiment and The Iron Maiden.
CORSET LADY
Played by Amelia Bayntun
Seen in Loving, the woman is desperately being squeezed into a corset by Esme Crowfoot when Sidney Bliss calls to set up a date for Bertie Muffet.
COUCH, LIONEL
Art Director on Teacher, Regardless, Don’t Lose Your Head, Camping, Loving, Henry, At Your Convenience, Matron, Abroad, Dick, Behind and England
Educated at Dulwich College, Lionel Couch trained at Camberwell Art School and was intending to become an architect before the outbreak of war saw him serve in the army.
After demob he quickly found employment as an assistant art director at Gainsborough Studios before transferring to Pinewood. His CV boasts such pictures as Nurse On Wheels, Night Must Fall, Casino Royale, Anne of the Thousand Days (for which he received an Academy Award nomination), Assault, Bless This House, The Satanic Rites of Dracula and, his last picture as art director, The Awakening.
COULTER, PHIL
Co-wrote the song, ‘Don’t Lose Your Head’, heard in the film of the same name
Born in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, in 1942, composer, pianist and arranger Phil Coulter graduated from Belfast’s Queen’s University and went on to write music for films such as A Man Called Sledge and The Water Babies as well as television series, including 1980’s Metal Mickey.
He’s also made the occasional appearance as an actor, such as in the 1999 film Black Eyed Dog and the television series, You’re A Star, hosted his own show, Coulter and Company for RTE in Ireland, and released many albums.
COUNSELL, JENNY
Role: Night Nurse in Again Doctor
COURTAULDS
The company which supplied all the nurses’ uniforms for Nurse.
COURTENAY, FRANCIS
Played by Kenneth Williams
Seen in Regardless, Francis is an intellectual who’s fluent in sixteen languages, including gobbledygook, which helps when the landlord comes calling. Fancies himself as a model and is delighted when a modelling assignment is given to him – that is until discovering he’s been hired to model hats for beekeepers.
COURTING GIRL
Played by Drina Pavlovic
The Courting Girl, who’s sneaked into the bushes with a boy, is disturbed when Henry Barnes throws a stick into the shrubs during Behind.
COURTS
The shop in Camping which Sid Boggle and Bernie Lugg visit hoping to find a leaflet on the nudist camp they plan visiting with their girlfriends. Unfortunately they pick up the wrong one and end up in a mudpit in Devon. The shop is also visited by Charlie Muggins who causes a commotion before buying some camping gear.
COWBOY, CARRY ON
see feature box here.
COWHAND
Played by Hal Galili
In Cowboy the Cowhand is sitting beside a camp fire with his colleague, Joe, keeping an eye on his herd when he’s attacked by Rumpo’s men.
COWLING, BRENDA
Roles: Matron in Girls and Wife in Behind
London-born Brenda Cowling wanted to be a film star as early as her childhood, but after leaving school trained as a shorthand typist before eventually changing direction and joining RADA. While studying at the Academy she made a brief appearance as a drama student in Hitchcock’s Stage Fright.
Plenty of rep work followed before Cowling made her television debut. Early small screen appearances include several series of an afternoon keep-fit show and The Forsyte Saga. Her career has focused mainly on television but she has occasionally appeared on stage and in films, such as The Railway Children, International Velvet and a small part in the Bond movie, Octopussy.
Television credits include Dad’s Army; It Ain’t Half Hot; Mum, Hi-de-Hi!; Fawlty Towers; The Pallisers; Only When I Laugh; three series of