The Complete A–Z of Everything Carry On. Richard Webber
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he was appearing on stage and screen, with television credits including Fabian of the Yard, Coronation Street, Romany Jones (playing the lead role), Z Cars, The Troubleshooters, Counterstrike, Beggar My Neighbour, The Motorway Men, Here’s Harry and Taxi.
He died in 1973, aged forty-four.
‘BED OF THE CENTURY’
In Regardless, Sam Twist demonstrates the ‘Bed of the Century’ at the Ideal House Exhibition. Unfortunately it has a few teething problems and Twist gets into a right mess.
BED OF NAILS NATIVE
Played by Hugh Futcher
Seen in Algiers during Spying, he chides Simkins for treading on his bed of nails.
BEDSOP, JAMES
Played by Charles Hawtrey
A private enquiry agent hired in Loving by Sophie Bliss to keep an eye on Sidney, whom she suspects of having affairs with many of the female clients registered with the Wedded Bliss Agency.
Mr Bedsop begins his surveillance in the cocktail bar of the Parkway Hotel where Sophie believes Sidney is planning to meet Esme Crowfoot; he’s hardly subtle in his methods of work, though, making it blatantly obvious later that he’s following Sidney up the road.
He eventually finds himself under arrest: after donning an artificial beard as disguise, he follows Bliss into a public lavatory and begins acting suspiciously by getting down on his hands and knees and peeping under the cubicle doors. Chased out by the attendant, he tells a waiting policeman that he’s looking for a man, which doesn’t go down too well with the bobby.
BEEVERS, DIANA
Role: Penny Lee in Teacher
Born in London in 1944, Diana Beevers joined the Corona Academy at the age of eleven and was soon appearing in the BBC children’s television serial, The Thompson Family, as Susan Thompson, in the late 1950s. She enjoyed other screen work while at the Academy, lastly in Venture, an Associated Rediffusion production.
Upon leaving the Corona at fifteen she went straight into The Visit in the West End; in addition to furthering her acting career, she began studying for O and A-levels and finally, in the 1980s, earning a degree with the Open University.
During the 1960s and ’70s, Beevers appeared in a handful of television and film productions, including Public Eye, Within These Walls and Rumpole of the Bailey. She also had a running part in the ’60s series, Compact, playing Michelle Donnelly. On the big screen, she was seen as a WRNS officer in 1968’s Submarine X-1 and Disney’s Escape to the Dark.
Her last theatre appearance was in the Noël Coward trilogy, Tonight at Eight, in 1971, after which she left the profession to raise her daughter, thereafter only making the occasional television appearance. She returned in the 1980s and directed in various London fringe theatres.
In recent years she ran her own mail order company, selling classical CDs, but has since closed the business and returned to directing professional, amateur and youth theatre groups on the Isle of Wight, where she now resides.
BEHIND, CARRY ON
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BELCHER, BROTHER
Played by Peter Butterworth
Seen in Up The Khyber, Brother Belcher, a missionary, arrives in India’s Himalayan region to preach, claiming, ‘Sinners welcome with open arms’. When a guide is needed for a military operation across the border in Afghanistan, Belcher is blackmailed into taking the job.
BELL, JACK
Played by Leslie Phillips
In Nurse the likeable Jack Bell is admitted to Haven Hospital for a bunion operation. His admission couldn’t have come at a worse time because he was hoping to sneak away for a few days with his girlfriend, Meg, staying at private hotels along the coast. After his operation is cancelled, Jack – while under the influence of champagne his girlfriend sneaked in – asks fellow patient Oliver Reckitt to perform the op, but soon changes his mind when Reckitt and other patients play along with his request and he nearly ends up being put under the knife by a student studying nuclear physics.
BELLA VISTA
The name of the schooner in Again Doctor which sank off the Beatific Islands during a terrible storm. As reported by the Long Hampton Advertiser, one of the schooner’s passengers was Dr Carver, who was returning from the islands at the time. He was a lucky survivor.
BELLE
Played by Joan Sims
Belle, whose intimate friends call her ‘Ding-Dong’, is the respectable owner of Belle’s Place in Stodge City. Seen in Cowboy, she loses her establishment to the ruthless Rumpo Kid when he swaggers into town.
BELLE’S PLACE
A saloon-cum-hotel in Stodge City that is run by Belle until the Rumpo Kid saunters into town and gains control, turning it from a respectable meeting place into a gambling den where the beer flows, fights break out and dancing girls entertain. Seen in Cowboy.
BELLE PARISIENNE
The magazine Professor Tinkle reads in his tent during Up the Jungle while his assistant, Claude Chumley, goes birdwatching.
BELTON, PETE
A corn dealer in Stodge City. He’s not seen in Cowboy but his establishment is.
BENHAM, JOAN
Role: Cynical Lady in Emmannuelle
Born in London in 1918, Joan Benham is probably best known for playing Lady Prudence in the period drama, Upstairs, Downstairs, despite experiencing all media during her long career.
Other television credits included The Troubleshooters, Doctor On the Go, Doctor in Charge, The Duchess of Duke Street, The Sun Trap and Terry and June. On the big screen she was seen in, among others, The Man Who Loved Redheads, It’s Great to be Young, Child in the House, The Bridal Path and Murder Ahoy.
She died in 1981, aged sixty-two.
BENNETT, PETER
Role: Thief in Constable
Born in London in 1917, Peter Bennett appeared in small roles in several films, including Quatermass and the Pit and Lady Chatterley’s Lover, as well as the occasional meatier part, such as the Master of the Otter Hounds in Tarka the Otter.
His television credits ranged from Man in a Suitcase and The Buccaneers to William Tell and several appearances in the 1950s series, The Adventures of Robin Hood. He died in 1989, aged seventy-two.
BENNISON, BILL
Assistant Art Director on Abroad
Other productions Bill Bennison has worked on in the capacity of assistant art director are the films Cromwell and Bless This House, both during the 1970s, as well as The Man in the Iron Mask, a production for the small screen. Promoted to art director, his credits include 1982’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
BENNY
Played by Davy Kaye
The diminutive, cigar-puffing bookmaker has to restrict Sid Plummer’s bets when – with the help of his little budgie, Joey – he nearly bankrupts the bookie. Appears in At Your Convenience.
BENSON, PC STANLEY
Played by Kenneth Williams
A snooty young policeman who’s just graduated from police college when sent to help out at a station where the workforce is severely affected by the ravages of flu.