The Complete A–Z of Everything Carry On. Richard Webber
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during World War Two, before training as a radiographer.
He was then drawn to the stage, first working as an understudy for the Chorlton Repertory Company and, from 1951, acting with the Theatre Workshop at the Theatre Royal, Stratford. He went on to roles at the Royal Court Theatre and the West End in productions such as Hamlet, The Power and the Glory and The Way of the World.
In 1955 Corbett began his big screen career, acting in films such as Nowhere To Go before going on to play Harold Steptoe in the television comedy series Steptoe and Son in 1962, a role which was the catalyst to his becoming a household name.
He continued acting in films, adding Sammy Going South, The Bargee, Rattle of a Simple Man, and The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins to his lengthening list of credits, as well as appearing in other television series, including Grundy and Potter, while on the stage he was seen playing the lead in Macbeth at the Globe Theatre in 1973.
He was made OBE in 1976, before his death in 1982, aged fifty-seven.
CORDELL, SHANE
Role: Attractive Nurse in Nurse
Shane Cordell was seen in a 1957 episode of Dixon of Dock Green, as well as a handful of films during the ’50s, including Three Men in a Boat, The Good Companions, Fiend Without A Face and Girls At Sea.
CORKTIP
Played by Anita Harris
A belly dancer-cum-fortune teller in Follow That Camel who’s first seen entertaining customers at the Café ZigaZig. Sergeant Nocker takes a shine to her and although she initially works with Sheikh Abdul Abulbul to entrap Nocker and Bertram West, she ends up being employed as Nocker’s batman when he’s eventually promoted to commandant.
CORNELIUS, BILLY
Roles: Odbodd Junior in Screaming!, Soldier in Don’t Lose Your Head, Patient in Plaster in Again Doctor, Guard in Henry, Constable in Girls, Tough Man in Dick, Man with Salad in Behind. Also uncredited roles in Cleo (Companion/escaped slave) and Cowboy (cowboy shot in opening scenes). He doubled for Terry Scott in Up the Jungle
TV: Christmas (’72), One in the Eye for Harold, Under the Round Table and Short Knight, Long Daze
Billy Cornelius, born in London in 1934, entered the printing trade upon leaving school. Always a keen amateur boxer, he turned professional in the mid-1950s and fought competitively for five years.
When he quit the ring, he followed a friend’s suggestion and began doing extra work and stunt work in film and television, which he combined with running pubs around the London area. His screen credits include The Avengers, Doctor Who, Callan, Ace of Wands and three episodes of Carry On Laughing for television, as well as When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, Bless This House, The Mind of Mr Soames and, his last film, The Long Good Friday.
CARRY ON COWBOY
An Anglo Amalgamated film
A Peter Rogers production
Distributed through Warner-Pathe Distribution Ltd
Songs: ‘Carry On Cowboy’ and ‘This is the Night for Love’ – music by Eric Rogers Lyrics by Alan Rogers
Sung by Anon
Released as an A certificate in 1965 in colour
Running time: 95 mins
CAST
| Sidney James | Johnny Finger / The Rumpo Kid |
| Kenneth Williams | Judge Burke |
| Jim Dale | Marshall P. Knutt |
| Charles Hawtrey | Big Heap |
| Joan Sims | Belle |
| Peter Butterworth | Doc |
| Bernard Bresslaw | Little Heap |
| Angela Douglas | Annie Oakley |
| Jon Pertwee | Sheriff Albert Earp |
| Percy Herbert | Charlie |
| Sydney Bromley | Sam Houston |
| Edina Ronay | Dolores |
| Lionel Murton | Clerk |
| Peter Gilmore | Curly |
| Davy Kaye | Josh the Undertaker |
| Alan Gifford | Commissioner |
| Brian Rawlinson | Stagecoach Guard |
| Michael Nightingale | Bank Manager |
| Simon Cain | Short |
| Sally Douglas | Kitkata |
| Cal McCord | Mex |
| Garry Colleano | Slim |
| Arthur Lovegrove | Old Cowhand |
| Margaret Nolan | Miss Jones |
| Tom Clegg | Blacksmith |
| Larry Cross | Perkins |
| Brian Coburn | Trapper |
| The Ballet Montparnasse | Dancing Girls |
| Hal Galili | Cowhand |
| Norman Stanley | Drunk |
| Carmen Dene | Mexican Girl |
| Andrea Allen | Minnie |
| Vicki Smith | Polly |
| Audrey Wilson | Jane |
| Donna White | Jenny |
| Lisa Thomas | Sally |
| Gloria Best | Bridget |
| George Mossman | Stagecoach Driver |
| Richard O’Brien | Rider |
| Eric Rogers | Pianist |
PRODUCTION TEAM
Screenplay by Talbot Rothwell
Music composed and conducted by Eric Rogers
Associate Producer: Frank Bevis
Art Director: Bert Davey
Editor: Rod Keys
Director of Photography: Alan Hume
Camera Operator: Godfrey Godar
Assistant Director: Peter Bolton
Unit Manager: Ron Jackson
Make-up: Geoffrey Rodway
Sound Editor: Jim Groom
Sound Recordists: Robert T. MacPhee and Ken Barker
Hairdressing: Stella Rivers
Costume Designer: Cynthia Tingey
Assistant Editor: Jack Gardner
Master of Horse: Jeremy Taylor
Continuity: Gladys Goldsmith
Producer: Peter Rogers
Director: Gerald Thomas
Judge Burke (Kenneth Williams) lives up to his name
Stodge City is a sleepy Western town where people live in peace and harmony, that is until Johnny Finger, alias the Rumpo Kid, arrives on the scene and starts throwing his weight, and his bullets, around. He cuts a frightening figure and is soon running the place; even Belle’s Place, an inn which only served soft drinks, is renamed Rumpo’s Place and becomes a rowdy, alcohol-swilling gambling house, with dancing girls, fights and goodness knows what as part of the scene. It’s a far cry from the days when Judge Burke tried banishing impropriety by declaring shooting, fighting, boozing and gambling were banned from Stodge, or as he put it so bluntly, ‘no nothing’.
No one has the strength or guts to stand up to the Rumpo Kid and his growing band of followers; the last person to try, Albert Earp, the sheriff, ended up with a chestful of bullets. His dying words were for his folks to be told what happened in the hope they might try and even the score; his wish was heard and heading for Stodge is Earp’s daughter, Annie Oakley, a fine shot who’s determined to track down the man who killed her father. Sharing the stagecoach with her is Marshall Knutt, a drainage, sanitation and garbage disposal engineer, who’s been involved in a terrible mix-up; desperate to recruit a peace marshal to sort things out in Stodge City, the local government take Marshall’s Christian