This was adapted by Terry Johnson from his stage play Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick (1998); the original play did not feature Hawtrey as a character. So it’s a bit of a turn-up that, months shy of his 80th birthday, he has booked himself in for a run in the West End. [9] She accompanied him on insurance assignments and protected him when he was feeling put upon by his Uncle Sidney, who wished to but could not, dismiss his nephew. He was in the first, Carry On Sergeant (1958), and more than twenty others. “Working with Paul, you wanted to run up and join him onstage. As a …

Click here to request Getty Images Premium Access through IBM Creative Design Services. “If I’m not on stage I feel I’ve lost a lot. He would often bring his mother on the set and then lock her in his dressing room when he was required to film a scene. I Only Arsked! Loosely based on the film Private's Progress (1956), the series followed the fortunes of a mixed bag of army National Service conscripts in residence at Hut 29 of the Surplus Ordnance Depot at Nether Hopping in remote Staffordshire.

Hawtrey also directed 19 plays, including Dumb Dora Discovers Tobacco at the Q Theatre in Richmond and, in 1945, Oflag 3, a war drama co-written with Douglas Bader. It’s a slight surprise to discover that Dale now has a thinnish grey barnet and the odd wrinkle. (Roger Livesey starred as Petruchio and his wife, Ursula Jeans, as Katherine.

Dale disappeared to conquer New York decades ago, and has barely been seen since. Actor. [8], Best of Friends (ITV, 1963) had essentially the same writers and production team as Our House. But the Carry On regulars weren’t there. Filmed in Wales and Corsica, this adventure series featured three small brothers nicknamed Toughy, Smarty and Mouse who run away to find an uninhabited island. The theatre always has been my one love.

In Our House (1960–62) Hawtrey played a council official, Simon Willow.

In 2010, Wes Butters wrote a biography of Charles which painted an awkward picture of the actor's final years in Deal. The cast included Ivor Barnard and Dame Lilian Braithwaite, as well as Vivien Leigh in the small part of Jessica Morton. But the impish smile remains, as do the silly voices: he does a splendid Olivier, a sumptuous Kenneth Williams, a purring Fenella Fielding. Download premium images you can't get anywhere else. Remember Jim Dale? Dale fell for theatre when he first heard a live audience laugh - “To hear 1,200 people suddenly scream with laughter…it hit me like an electric shock.”. In 1948, Hawtrey appeared at the Windmill Theatre, Soho in comedy sketches presented as part of Revudeville. Just Jim Dale played to hoots of approving laughter for 12 weeks in New York. George Frederick Joffre Hartree (30 November 1914 – 27 October 1988), known as Charles Hawtrey, was an English comedy actor and musician.. Beginning at an early age as a boy soprano, he made several records before moving on to radio. The series initially ran for 13 episodes from September to December 1960, returning the following year with Bernard Bresslaw and Hylda Baker added to the cast.

His catchphrase was "How's yer mother off for dripping?". His later career encompassed the theatre (as both actor and director), the cinema (where he regularly appeared supporting Will Hay in the 1930s and 1940s in films such as The Ghost of St. Michael's), through the Carry On films, and television. His London stage debut followed a few years later when, at the age of 18, he appeared in another "fairy extravaganza", this time at the Scala Theatre singing the role of the White Cat and Bootblack in the juvenile opera Bluebell in Fairyland. Indeed if you’re under 60 these credits won’t mean much.

Following study at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London, he embarked on a career in the theatre as both actor and director. In her autobiography, Barbara Windsor wrote about Hawtrey's alcoholism and his outrageous flirting with the footballer George Best. “And over the years I realised that the longer I lived the more different Jim Dales there are.”, Charles Hawtrey, Sid James, Dany Robin, Joan Sims and Jim Dale in Carry On; Don't Lose Your Head, 1966. It’ll all be in the show, which is a sort of stage memoir starting with Dale’s youth in Northants and going all the way through to recording the Harry Potter audiobooks in the US. Soon he was Launcelot Gobbo to Olivier’s Shylock.