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  Charles Hawtrey (Carry On actor) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles Hawtrey made an early start to a remarkable career that was to span a period of almost 60 years, and broke through in all the major entertainment media of the time.
Charles Hawtrey was an accomplished musician (and had been a semi-professional pianist for the armed forces during WWII), and recorded several records as a boy soprano.
Hawtrey also appeared on radio during Children's Hour as Norman, Bones, Boy Detective alongside the actress Patricia Hayes (this series was first broadcast in 1943), and he also played the voice of snooty Hubert Lane in 'Just Williams'.
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 Charles Hawtrey's Obituary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Charles Hawtrey who has died aged 74, was an endearingly eccentric comedy actor whose bespectacled, spindle-shanked figure and dotty, weedy, often outrageously "camp" characterisations tended to be more familiar than his name.
Hawtrey’s many other stage appearances included the Shakespearean roles of Gremio in The Taming of the Shrew at the Old Vic (1939) and the following year he earned rave notices for the Eric Maschwitz revue New Faces, particularly for his "chic and finished study of an alluring woman spy".
Hawtrey’s preferred mode of parlance was a weird nonsense language a sort of telegraphese, which few apart from his Carry On co-star Joan Sims were able to fathom.
www.carryonline.com /carry/chobituary.html   (894 words)

  
 Clark-Hogg Family genealogy - Sir Charles Hawtrey
Sir Charles often frequented the American Bar at the Savoy Hotel (located close to the theatres) and was responsible for the naming of the Hanky-panky cocktail.
Sir Charles Henry Hawtrey died in 1923 and is buried at Richmond Churchyard, London.
Charles Hawtrey together with (Sir) George Alexander, George Bernard Shaw, Sir JM Barrie appear to have cameo roles in the film.
www.oliveweb.clara.net /clark-hogg/ch-gallery-hawtrey-charles.htm   (2034 words)

  
 Charles Hawtrey biography. Carry On Line's comprehensive biog of Charles Hawtrey, full of links to pictures, sounds and ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Charles Hawtrey was born George Frederick Joffre Hartree in 1914, in Hounslow, Middlesex.
Hawtrey is often confused with the celebrated Edwardian actor Sir Charles Hawtrey, to whom he is no relation; he borrowed the actor's name two years after his death.
Hawtrey was justifiably proud of his track record on both stage and screen - from his early films appearances in the 1930s, through to a string of theatrical engagements including Gremio in the Old Vic's performance of the Taming of the Shrew in 1939.
www.carryonline.com /carry/hawtrey.html   (623 words)

  
 Charles Hawtrey Trivia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Charles Hawtrey had to be given driving lessons on the Pinewood lot as he was unable to drive before the start of filming Carry On Cabby.
Hawtrey refused to play the part of Mr Bedsop in Loving because Peter Rogers said he couldn't have third billing due to the size of Hattie Jacques part, and his part being small.
Charles Hawtrey plays a character with his own first name in Camping, the first of many to do so in the Carry Ons.
www.btinternet.com /~a.n.preece/trivially_charleshawtrey.htm   (457 words)

  
 CHARLES HAWTREY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Charles Hawtrey was born George Frederick Hartree in 1914, son of a mechanic.
Charles roles in the Carry On films were as the camp, childlike, bespectacled figure who goes through life not realising or caring what goes on around him.
Charles lived alone till his death at the age of 73.
garybasford.tripod.com /CHARLES%20HAWTREY.htm   (242 words)

  
 HEART OF PLASTIC
Charles is recaptured by the CyberMondasians, and the Doctor taken by the CyberTelosians to their base.
Charles and the escaped prisoners meet up with the main body of resistance, which is the party of which Humphrey is a member.
Charles discovers a diary, written by a Time Lord who called himself "Morty", which contains an account on how the machine was made, and what few things were left to do on the machine to make it safe to use.
www.lunaestas.com /doctorwho/bus/stories/3_hop.shtml   (1071 words)

  
 Charles Hawtrey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
If you had asked Charles Hawtrey what his family history was, he would have told you that he was the son of the celebrated Sir Charles Hawtrey, the light comedy actor-manager and he would have regaled anecdotes about him.
Charles Hawtrey’s youth is a little known subject.
Hawtrey could never by confused as a sex symbol with his camped up voice and just when you think he’s going to embark on a love affair, the script flips him over and he is fact sharing a night watching television or having a game of cards.
www.btinternet.com /~a.n.preece/charleshawtrey.htm   (574 words)

  
 Station Information - Charles Hawtrey
There have been two British actors named Charles Hawtrey.
Charles Hawtrey (November 30, 1914 - October 27, 1988) was a popular British comedy actor.
Sir Charles Hawtrey (September 21, 1858 - July 30, 1923), from whom the better-known Charles Hawtrey borrowed his name, was a celebrated Victorian stage actor, knighted in 1922 by King George V.
www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/charles_hawtrey.html   (202 words)

  
 Egobrowser: Charles Hawtrey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Charles Hawtrey had to be given driving lessons on the Pinewood lot as he was unable to driver before the start of filming.
Charles Hawtrey has never been proclaimed as a "dead pan" comic in the Buster Keaton tradition, it is usually when he is looking his most serious when.
Charles Hawtrey had appeared in many films and stage plays, and had taught many fine actors their craft, yet all he is remembered for is playing the bumbling.
blog.outer-court.com /egobrowser/Charles-Hawtrey.html   (158 words)

  
 Probert Encyclopaedia: The Cinema (Car-Chd)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Carry on Abroad is a comedy starring Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Peter Butterworth, Joan Sims and Barbara Windsor in a story of a mixed group of English tourists arriving at a Mediterranean holiday resort.
Carry On Again Doctor is a comedy starring Kenneth Williams, Jim Dale, Sidney James, Charles Hawtrey and Joan Sims in the story of an unethical doctor banished to a pacific island where he discovers a slimming medicine which he then brings back to England.
Carry On at Your Convenience is a comedy starring Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Hattie Jacques and Bernard Bresslaw in a story about the workers at a toilet factory and their militant shop steward.
www.probertencyclopaedia.com /MCA.HTM   (1384 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Books: Charles Hawtrey 1914-1988: The Man Who Was Private Widdle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Lewis evokes Hawtrey’s weird by wholly joyful persona in a monograph worthy of Ken Tynan.
For instance, one of Hawtrey's last TV appearances was in the series Supergran and this is just mentioned in a footnote and Lewis had never hard of the programme, named the wrong actress who played her and didn't even bother to get a copy of the show to watch.
Considering how reclusive and obstinate Hawtrey was in the 80's it would be interesing to hear how this appearance came about and what he was like to work with during the filming of it.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0571210643   (980 words)

  
 Hawtrey - new and used books
Hawtrey was an innovative, energetic and highly regarded headmaster of Eton.
Hawtrey was the author of a number of works on St. Mark’s School, most famously St. Mark’s School on board a Man-of-War.
Hawtrey was Eton tutor of Arthur Henry Hallam, Tennyson's friend, and this copy is inscribed `al signor Hallam, 1842'.
www.isbn.pl /A-Hawtrey   (1105 words)

  
 Charles Hawtrey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Charles Hawtrey (1858-1923), stage and silent film actor;
Charles Hawtrey (1914-1988), who named himself after the earlier actor, and is best known for the Carry On films.
This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Hawtrey   (102 words)

  
 Charles Hawtrey @ Filmbug
Hawtrey was an accomplished musician (had been a semi-professional pianist for the armed forces during WWII), and recorded several records as a boy soprano.
Hawtrey also directed a number of plays at the Q theatre in South London - including 'What do we do now" in 1945.
Hawtrey's television career began in the 1950s with 'The Army Game' and continued in 'Our House' (1960) with Hattie Jacques, and 'Best of Friends' (1963) with Hylda Baker.
www.filmbug.com /db/344794   (431 words)

  
 Broadmining: Charles Hawtrey (19th century actor)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
It has been said that Coward idolized Charles Hawtrey, and that it was from him that Coward learned both comic acting techniques and playwriting.
As a treat, Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon celebrated her 14th birthday in a box at the Coliseum Theatre, London, watching a Charles Hawtrey show (on 4th August 1914).
The later actor named Charles Hawtrey was born George Hartree, and took his stage name after Sir Charles.
www.lowide.com /Charles%20Hawtrey%20(19th%20century%20actor)   (260 words)

  
 Charles Hawtrey
Pop-eyed and bespectacled, thin lips, it seemed, permanently pursed in an expression of disapproval or in anticipation of trouble, Hawtrey came originally from a theatrical family based in Middlesex.
Hay was Hawtrey's idol - he once said 'I learned everything I know from him - and he even turned down a role in Top of the Form (1952), a remake of Hay's 1937 film Good Morning, Boys, because he thought (rightly) that it cheapened the original.
Knobbly-kneed and goggle-eyed, Hawtrey's characters in these films were vaguely camp and campily vague.
humorlinks.com /humornet/files/hawtrey.html   (546 words)

  
 Charles Hawtrey in Kent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Charles Hawtrey was born in November 1914 and he made his professional debut at the age of 11 as a street urchin in the play The Windmill Man having spent three years at the world famous Italia Conti acting school.
He was also a fine boy soprano and recordings of him singing exist and are played on radio even today, and although he never learnt to read music he was an excellent pianist.
Hawtrey appeared in films as far back as 1930 (a silent feature entitled Marry Me) but his 30s and 40s career was mainly spent on the stage, appearing in revues, comedies and pantomimes and such-like.
www.inkent.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /people/hawtrey.htm   (241 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : Person : Charles Hawtrey : Biography
Birdlike, bespectacled British comic actor Charles Hawtrey was the son of a knighted theatrical star of the same name.
In the 1930s, Hawtrey frequently appeared in the films of Will Hay, playing one of the professorial Hay's cheekier students.
Charles Hawtrey left the "Carry On" series after a well-publicized argument about billing.
www.vh1.com /movies/person/27494/bio.jhtml   (148 words)

  
 Carry On films - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The mainstays of the series were Kenneth Williams (26 films), Joan Sims (24), Charles Hawtrey (23) and Sid James (19).
One of the most iconic Carry On stars was Barbara Windsor, although she only appeared in 9 of the films.
Many of the actors portrayed characters with similar traits – for example Sid James was often portrayed as a womaniser, something that caused problems in his private life.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Carry_On_film   (1025 words)

  
 bookmunch - online book reviews
Indeed, he actually likes Hawtrey, which is a bonus, given that he never liked Sellers, or found him funny, and yet found the energy to write a thirty thousand page analysis of his life and art.
We all like Hawtrey of course, more for the Carry On films than for anything else, but whether his career warrants the kind of poncey analysis it receives here is open to question.
But I am also left with the impression that, had Hawtrey been a successful performer, working until he died and hailed by the public and critics in Britain and Hollywood alike, then Lewis would probably be more prone to attack him than celebrate him.
www.bookmunch.co.uk /view.php?id=150   (988 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | What a Carry On!
In his brilliant book on Charles Hawtrey, Roger Lewis recreates the milieu of sadness and second-rateness that pervaded these films.
Hawtrey got paid £5,000 per picture in 1958; the pay scale remained the same for 20 years.
None of which need matter to the audience, were it not for the fact that the tattiness and cheapskateness seeps depressingly through on to the screen.
www.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,3604,1217368,00.html   (845 words)

  
 The Edge interview Carry on, Theo - Rick Farnworth
The British biographical dictionary I got hold of with Charles Hawtrey's name in it was so fucking old that it didn't even mention the Carry Ons.
And by then I valued it more for the Charles Hawtrey reference than for the fact that John Lennon made the reference.
Charles Hawtrey, Sid James, Barbara Windsor, Hattie Jacques, Kenneth Williams, Bernard Breslaw, they're archetypes, man.
www.theedge.abelgratis.co.uk /features/carryontheo.htm   (3517 words)

  
 Carry On Jack (1964)
While it is directed by series regular Gerald Thomas, it stars only two of the regulars from this era: Kenneth Williams and Charles Hawtrey.
Hawtrey is another luckless victim of the press-gang, run by Mr Angel (and of course, he also is anything but).
When the press gang are picking up Hawtrey they suggest "Wouldn't you like to go to sea friend", and he replies "See what?".
www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ReviewID=3708&SID=17&PID=107486   (990 words)

  
 Charles Hawtrey ~ at runboard.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
I have just re-read the Charles Hawtrey biography (The Man Who Was Private Widdle), and it really brings it home the problems this man had.
However Charles was constantly bitter about his carry on pecking order and Kenny was constantly libelling his friends and colleagues in his diaries.
Charles Hawtrey on the other hand was very concerned with his pecking order, as you say, and obviously drink lead him away from his work, with producers and the like not wanting to 'take a risk' with him.
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 Spectator, The: An amused world of his own
Hawtrey, for those unfamiliar with the series, is an ultra-skinny, epicene little figure with round spectacles, a thick, dark toupee and immaculate diction: an ageless and hilarious melange of fop, school swot and mischievous maiden aunt.
Roger Lewis rightly points out that Hawtrey is funny doing nothing, quietly contained in an amused world of his own.
Dropped from the Carry On films after a billing dispute, Hawtrey eked out his 16 final years in obscurity; a bitter, lonely alcoholic, squalidly pursuing rough trade in Deal.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_200112/ai_n9007586   (671 words)

  
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Charles Hawtrey was born George Frederick Joffree Hawtree in Hounslow on 30th November 1914.
Charles was a grat contributor to the films and always made me smile whenever he came on.
Sadly, as he got older his drinking grew worse and he was forced to retire.
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 Carry On Teacher Review (1959)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Ted Ray, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Leslie Phillips, Joan Sims, Hattie Jacques, Richard O'Sullivan
The school inspectors are on their way, and Ted Ray, headmaster of Maudlin Street School, has a problem.
The usual crowd are gathering here, with teachers Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Hattie Jacques and Kenneth Connor arguing, laughing, drinking, and plotting their way through a very enjoyable 90 minutes.
www.thespinningimage.co.uk /cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=801   (366 words)

  
 Morrissey-solo | Charles Hawtrey cover - "Lacking in finesse" (Q magazine)
Charles Hawtrey cover - "Lacking in finesse" (Q magazine)
Morrissey may have received gracious letters from thespians Alain Delon and Billie Whitelaw consenting to the use of their images on, respectively, 'The Queen Is Dead' and the re-issued 'William, It Was Really Nothing' single, but others weren't so amenable.
Morrissey himself chose not to use alcoholic teacher Laurence Olivier caning Terence Stamp's hand from the 1962 movie Term Of Trial, while Kenneth Williams and Charles Hawtrey dressed as women from 1959's Carry On Constable was voluntarily exorcised as lacking in finesse.
www.morrissey-solo.com /articles/01/07/11/0425246.shtml   (369 words)

  
 Moviefone: Movie Celebrities - Charles Hawtrey: MAIN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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 Britain's Carry On films
Jacques is a frustrated spinster of tentlike proportions, Charles Hawtrey a campily dotty shrink, and Williams a psychological stretcher-case: he is afraid, amid other hypochondrias, that he is changing sex.
When all three converge in Hawtrey's room, in a climactic mayhem of dropped trousers and double-enten­dres, it's like watching a Feydeau farce played out in a friary.
For Williams and Hawtrey are the film's – and in Wil­liams's case, the series' – hothouse blooms.
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