Cyril Chamberlain (far left) was a reliable character actor of stage and screen (Constable)

      CHAPLAIN

      Played by Peter Jones

      Seen in Doctor. Sporting a hearing aid, he conducts the wedding ceremony for Francis Bigger and the equally deaf Chloe Gibson, which makes for a frustrating affair.

      CHAPPELL, NORMAN

      Roles: Allbright in Cabby and 1st Plotter in Henry. (Note: also cast as Mr Thrush in Loving but scene cut.)

      TV: Orgy and Bess; One in the Eye for Harold; The Case of the Screaming Winkles; The Case of the Coughing Parrot; Under the Round Table; Short Knight, Long Daze and Lamp Posts of the Empire

      Norman Chappell, who was born in the Indian city of Lucknow, arrived in the UK aged four. Son of a professional soldier, he broke with tradition and pursued a theatrical career, but not before serving for a time with the RAF, and holding down various jobs, including cook in a police canteen.

      His first taste of acting was during his RAF days; upon deciding it was the career for him, he enrolled at the Italia Conti Stage School. Circumstances, however, forced him to leave prematurely, but it never affected his progress in the profession, which saw him work in all media.

      On television he was seen playing several characters in The Avengers, and appeared in Bless This House, Mr Aitch, Mr Digby Darling, Whoops Baghdad!, Sez Les, Danger UXB and Doctor’s Daughters, while on the big screen he popped up in several films during the 1960s and ’70s, such as Jigsaw, Crooks in Cloisters, How I Won the War, Up the Creek, Nearest and Dearest, Love Thy Neighbour, The Four Musketeers and Intimate Games.

      He died of a heart attack in 1983.

      CHARLES (EARL OF BRISTOL)

      Played by Peter Butterworth

      The Earl of Bristol has been ambassador at the Spanish court for some time before returning with his two attractive daughters, one of whom is blonde Bettina. He’s seen briefly in Henry arriving with his girls at Henry VIII’s do.

      CHARLIE

      Played by Percy Herbert

      A barman at Belle’s Place, he remains in the job when Johnny Finger arrives in Stodge City and starts throwing his weight around, including taking over the hotel-cum-bar and renaming it Rumpo’s Place. He soon becomes Rumpo’s sidekick but ends up being shot accidentally by Annie Oakley. Seen in Cowboy.

      CHARLIE PLATOON

      Sergeant O’Brien’s platoon at Heathercrest National Service Depot in Sergeant.

      CHAUFFEUR

      Played by Frank Forsyth

      This miserable-looking chauffeur is seen in Cabby waiting at a junction. Charlie Hawkins turns up in his cab, spots the sour-faced driver and asks him where the funeral is.

      CHAYSTE PLACE

      A finishing school, set in a sumptuous building, for young ladies. Seen in Camping, its principal is Dr Kenneth Soaper while the headmistress is Miss Haggerd.

      CHEF

      Played by Leon Greene

      A monster of a man, the chef works at the Brighton hotel where the employees of W. C. Boggs and Son, out on their annual jolly, were intending to eat lunch. A strike, though, puts paid to their plans, infuriating, ironically, Vic Spanner, one of the most troublesome shop stewards around. He confronts the chef, who towers over him, and soon wishes he hadn’t.

      CHERRILL, ROGER

      Sound Editor on Nurse

      Roger Cherrill entered films in the early 1940s, working as a production runner on 1943’s The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. He was working as an assistant editor a year later on A Canterbury Tale and, from the 1950s, as a sound editor on films such as A Day to Remember, Always a Bride, Doctor at Sea, Lost, Tiger in the Smoke and Rooney. As an editor his credits include Make Mine Mink, In the Doghouse, A Kind of Loving, Billy Liar, The Naked Prey and the television series, Interpol Calling.

      CHIEF, THE

      Played by Eric Barker

      The Director of Security Operations seen in Spying is alarmed to hear that Professor Stark has been murdered and a secret formula stolen. He assembles a team of agents and sends them off to retrieve the formula at all costs; the trouble is the team is made up of a bunch of incompetents.

      CHIEF CONSTABLE

      (Voice only)

      Heard in Constable, the Chief Constable phones to congratulate Inspector Mills on catching thieves who recently snatched some wages in the district.

      CHILDS, GUNNER

      Played by Billy J. Mitchell

      Based at the experimental 1313 anti-aircraft battery featured in England, he’s one of the shirkers who suffers a severe shock to the system when the tough-speaking Captain Melly is put in charge of the unit.

      CHINDI

      Played by Michael Mellinger

      Seen during the famous dinner-party scene in Up The Khyber, Chindi works for Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond, the British governor in the northwest province of India.

      CHINESE LADY

      Played by Madame Yang

      In Regardless, the Chinese Lady hired an interpreter from Helping Hands but a mix-up finds Sam Twist calling instead of Francis Courtenay.

      CHIPPING SODBURY LADIES’ GUILD

      The Guild presented drainage, sanitation and garbage disposal engineer, Marshall Knutt, with a sink plunger in recognition of services rendered in Cowboy. He carries it with him when he visits the Bureau of Internal Affairs looking for a job, but probably wishes he hadn’t when it sticks so hard to a clerk’s desk that Knutt ends up tearing the tabletop off trying to release it.

      CHIPPING SODBURY TECHNICAL COLLEGE

      The college from which Marshall P. Knutt graduated as a drainage, sanitation and garbage disposal engineer. Mentioned in Cowboy.

      CHRYSTAL, BIDDY

      Hairdresser on Regardless, Cruising, Cabby, and Spying

      Biddy Chrystal, head of Pinewood’s hairdressing department for many years, began her film career in the 1940s and proceeded to work on a multitude of films, including Blanche Fury, London Belongs to Me, Prelude to Fame, The Browning Version, Lost and The Early Bird.

      She turned freelance and worked through until the 1970s, latterly on productions such as Young Winston, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and, in 1974, 11 Harrowhouse. Eventually moved to America and died in 1995.

      CHUMLEY, CLAUDE

      Played by Kenneth Connor

      Professor Tinkle’s assistant in Up the Jungle, Chumley follows the highly respected ornithologist on his expeditions, including recent visits to the Virgin Isles and, now, the jungles of Africa. While on the trip, he has to fight his unbridled passion for Lady Bagley, another member of the jungle expedition.

      CHURCH ROAD

      The street in Constable where the criminals involved in the wages snatch abandoned their car, registration RGT 547.

      CHURCH, TONY

      Wrote the screenplay for That’s Carry