Carry On films

The Carry On films were a long-running series of British popular low-budget comedy films, directed by Gerald Thomas and produced by Peter Rogers. An energetic mix of parody, farce and double entendres, they are seen as classic examples of British humour.

Regular actors

There was a core group of regulars throughout the series (listed here with the number of films they were in):

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• Kenneth Williams (26)
• Joan Sims (24)
• Charles Hawtrey (23)
• Sid James (19)
• Kenneth Connor (17)
• Peter Butterworth (16)
• Bernard Bresslaw (14)
• Hattie Jacques (14)
• Jim Dale (11)
• Peter Gilmore (11)
• Barbara Windsor (10, including her presenting chores in That's Carry On)
• Patsy Rowlands (9)
• Jack Douglas (8)
• Julian Holloway (8)
• Valerie Leon (7)
• Terry Scott (7)

Many of the actors portrayed similar characters in several films – for example Sid James was often portrayed as a womaniser, something that caused problems in his private life. Jack Douglas joined the series with a cameo appearance in Matron where he appears in just one scene and has a single line of dialogue. After an only slightly larger role in the following film Abroad where he again plays his established Alf Ippitimus-type character, his roles increased in size and increasingly diverged from the familiar Alf performance. Douglas ultimately appeared in all subsequent films in the original series.

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