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Charles Hawtrey


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  • Carry On Camping
  • Carry On Camping review by from LEYLAND
    Rated - 5.0 stars 26 November 2003
    ...lm ever. Obvious one liners, classic performances from the Carry On favourites, Charles Hawtrey with stew on his head, Kenneth Williams and Hattie Jacques in the shower, Barba...   Read customer review
  • Carry on Screaming
  • Carry on Screaming review by jonny2hats from
    Rated - 5.0 stars Frying Tonight!! 28 December 2011
    ...ff but Kenneth Williams was never better, and many of the usual cast (including Charles Hawtrey, contrary to the previous review!!) are there....   Read customer review
  • Carry On Spying
  • Carry On Spying review by A customer from Cardiff, Wales
    Rated - 4.0 stars The first spoof Carry On 28 June 2005
    ...ams, Bernard Cribbins, Barbara Windsor (her first appearance in 'Carry On') and Charles Hawtrey blunder around Europe and North Africa trying to retrieve the formula. The scen...   Read customer review

Charles Hawtrey - filmography


  • Carry On Abroad on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Sidney James,  June Whitfield.,  Joan Sims
    Director: Gerald Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The 'Carry On' team put their talents to sending up package holidays in this film. When a group of British tourists arrive on the island of Elsbels, they discover their hotel bears little resemblance to the one on the brochure. Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Barbara Windsor and Joan Sims star.
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 2,049 members
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  • Carry On Matron on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Sidney James,  Terry Scott,  Joan Sims
    Director: Gerald Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A gang of crooks, intent on stealing a huge supply of birth control pills, invade a hospital. Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims and Barbara Windsor star.
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 1,894 member
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  • Carry On Henry on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Sidney James,  Terry Scott,  Joan Sims
    Director: Gerald Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The Carry On team present a seaside postcard view of English history, with Sid James as the lecherous Henry VIII, and the likes of Kenneth Williams and Terry Scott providing the background 'ooh-ers'.
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 1,640 member
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  • Carry On Loving on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Terry Scott,  Joan Sims,  Bernard Bresslaw
    Director: Gerald Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Sid James and Hattie Jacques run a dubious marriage agency in this 'Carry On' outing, which features mistaken identities, mixed-up dates and a custard pie fight. With Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques and Charles Hawtrey.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 1,580 member
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  • Carry On Camping on DVD (1968)
    Starring: Sidney James,  Terry Scott,  Joan Sims
    Director: Gerald Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Sid (Sid James) and Bernie (Bernard Bresslaw) attempt to trick their girlfriends into attending a nudist camp with them. Fellow holiday-makers include Dr Soaper (Kenneth Williams), his matron Miss Haggerd (Hattie Jacques), and their school of overdeveloped young girls (including Barbara Windsor). ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 2,222 members
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  • Carry On Follow That Camel on DVD (1967)
    Starring: Joan Sims,  Bernard Bresslaw,  Phil Silvers
    Director: Gerald Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    An English gentleman joins the Foreign Legion after having been accused of fraud, and saves a fort from marauding Arabs. Phil Silvers guest stars with Kenneth Williams, Jim Dale and Joan Sims. Originally this was not set to be part of the 'Carry On' series, but the prefix was tacked on to improve ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 1,489 member
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  • Carry On Don't Lose Your Head on DVD (1967)
    Starring: Sidney James,  Joan Sims,  Sid James
    Director: Gerald Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In the grim days of the French revolution, citizens Camembert and Bidet are no match for the 'Black Fingernail'. Sid James stars as the heroic Englishman in the 'Carry On' spoof of 'The Scarlet Pimpernel'. With Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims and Jim Dale.
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 1,896 member
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  • Carry On Doctor on DVD (1967)
    Starring: Sidney James,  Joan Sims,  Sid James
    Director: Gerald Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Crazy goings-on in a hospital form the basis of this comedy, in which one man thinks he only has a week to live, while the rest of the patients lead a revolution against the staff. Frankie Howerd joins Sid James and most of the 'Carry On' regulars.
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 1,846 member
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  • Carry on Screaming on DVD (1966)
    Starring: Joan Sims,  Harry H. Corbett,  Kenneth Williams
    Director: Gerald Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Twelfth entry in the 'Carry On' series. Detective Bung (Harry H. Corbett) investigates a mad professor (Kenneth Williams) and his sister, who are turning their victims into shop window dummies. Those hamming it up in this Hammer horror spoof include Charles Hawtrey, Jim Dale, Joan Sims and Fenella ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 2,570 members
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  • Carry on Cowboy on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Joan Sims,  Sid James,  Kenneth Williams
    Director: Gerald Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Eleventh entry in the 'Carry On' series. Marshall P. Knutt (Jim Dale), a former sanitary engineer, becomes the sheriff of Stodge City in the Wild West and must help a young woman beat the Rumpo Kid (Sid James), the outlaw who shot her father. Those getting off their horses and drinking their milk ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 1,705 member
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  • Carry On Spying on DVD (1964)
    Starring: Bernard Cribbins,  Kenneth Williams,  Charles Hawtrey
    Director: Gerald Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Eighth entry in the 'Carry On' series. Barbara Windsor (in her first 'Carry On' appearance) plays a trainee spy in the British Secret Service, who must use all her talents to prevent an evil mastermind from the organisation S.T.E.N.C.H. obtaining a secret formula. Master spies on the case include ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 1,709 member
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  • Carry On Cabby on DVD (1963)
    Starring: Bill Owen,  Sid James,  Liz Fraser
    Director: Gerald Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Seventh entry in the 'Carry On' series, and the first not to feature Kenneth Williams. Charlie (Sid James), owner of the Speedee Cabs company, finds he has some serious competition when his wife Peggy (Hattie Jacques) sets up a rival firm, consisting only of glamorous female drivers. Cabbies driven ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 1,777 member
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  • Carry on Jack on DVD (1963)
    Starring: Bernard Cribbins,  Kenneth Williams,  Donald Houston
    Director: Gerald Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Tenth entry in the 'Carry On' series. Able seaman Poop-Decker (Bernard Cribbins) signs up for adventure on the high seas with the wicked Captain Fearless (Kenneth Williams). Those swabbing the decks include Juliet Mills, Charles Hawtrey and Donald Houston. The film was originally to be entitled 'Up ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 1,357 member
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  • Carry On Regardless on DVD (1961)
    Starring: Bill Owen,  Joan Sims,  Sid James
    Director: Gerald Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Fifth entry in the 'Carry On' series. The head of a temp agency (Sid James) finds that all the people on his books are incapable of performing the odd jobs they are hired for. Eager employees include Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Connor and Joan Sims.
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 1,569 member
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  • What A Whopper on DVD (1961)
    Starring: Sid James,  Clive Dunn,  Carole Lesley
    Director: Gilbert Gunn
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Adam Faith and Sid James star in this innuendo-laden 1961 British comedy. Struggling writer Tony Blake (Faith) and his bohemian artist flatmates are threatened with eviction from their house in Chelsea. To raise the cash, they devise a hare-brained scheme to travel to Loch Ness, fake an appearance ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 58 members
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  • Our House (1960)
    Starring: Joan Sims,  hattie Jacques,  Charles Hawtrey
    Director: Ernest Maxin
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The three surviving episodes of the 1960s comedy created by Norman Hudis, a prominent scriptwriter on the early 'Carry On' films. The series, which follows a group of eccentric characters who share a house, also features a number of 'Carry On' stars including Hattie Jacques, Charles Hawtrey, Joan ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 7 members
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  • Carry On Teacher on DVD (1959)
    Starring: Joan Sims,  Rosalind Knight,  Hattie Jacques
    Director: Gerald Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The third film in the 'Carry On' series. Trouble erupts at a secondary school when inspectors arrive to evaluate the teachers' work. A group of pupils (led by a youthful Richard O'Sullivan) who don't want their teacher transferred to a different job play up. Teachers attempting to keep order ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 1,725 member
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  • Carry On Constable on DVD (1959)
    Starring: Sid James,  hattie Jacques,  Charles Hawtrey
    Director: Gerald Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Fourth entry in the 'Carry On' series. Police Sergeant Wilkins (Sid James, in his 'Carry On' debut) has a new batch of inept recruits on his hands, whose idea of covert surveillance involves dressing up in drag. Bumbling PCs include Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Connor and Leslie Phillips.
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 1,716 member
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  • Carry On Nurse on DVD (1958)
    Starring: Joan Sims,  Bill Owen,  hattie Jacques
    Director: Gerald Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This was the second 'Carry On' film, and a hit in the United States. The patients in a men's hospital ward decide to revolt against the staff, as led by the indomitable Matron (Hattie Jacques). Troublesome patients include Kenneth Williams, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Connor and Charles Hawtrey. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 2,225 members
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  • You're Only Young Twice on DVD (1952)
    Starring: Patrick Barr,  Charles Hawtrey,  Duncan Macrae
    Director: Terry Bishop
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    British comedy set at a fictional Scottish university. Seeking her long lost uncle (Joseph Tomelty), Ada Shore (Diane Hart) arrives at Skerryvore University to find him working under another name as the Gate Keeper. Ada is mistaken by the Principal, Sir Archibald Asher (Patrick Barr), as his new ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 66 members
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  • Brandy For The Parson on DVD (1951)
    Starring: Kenneth More,  James Donald,  Kenneth More
    Director: John Eldridge
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    British comedy about a young couple who accidentally get involved in brandy smuggling. Bill Harper (James Donald) and Petronilla Brand (Jean Lodge) are on a yachting holiday together when they meet Tony Rackham (Kenneth More), who is smuggling brandy from France to a wine merchants in London. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 123 members
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  • The Goose Steps Out on DVD (1942)
    Starring: Will Hay,  Frank Pettingell,  Julien Mitchell
    Director: Basil Dearden,  Will Hay
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Classic Will Hay comedy. Inept schoomaster William Potts (Hay) is parachuted into Nazi Germany when British intelligence discover that he is the spitting image of an enemy master spy. Upon his arrival, Potts is put to work teaching young German spies how to appear authentically British - and is ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 144 members
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  • The Army Game - Vol. 1 (3 discs)
    Starring: Bernard Bresslaw,  Dick Emery,  Charles Hawtrey
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    First volume of the popular 1950s British television series about a group of hopeless National Service conscripts assigned to the Surplus Ordnance Department, starring Bill Fraser, Alfie Bass, Frank Williams, Ted Lune and William Hartnell, among others. Episodes are: 'Snudge and Jimmy O'Goblin'; '..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 54% from 199 members
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  • Carry On Christmas Special on DVD
    Starring: Terry Scott,  Bob Todd,  jack Dougls
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    All four made-for-TV Christmas specials from the Carry On crew. In 'Carry On Christmas 1969', Sid James, Barbara Windsor and the rest rework Dickens' classic 'A Christmas Carol' in their own inimitable style. In 'Carry On Again Christmas' (1970), Sid stars as Long John Silver while Babs plays a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 945 members
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  • Grasshopper Island
    Starring: Julian Orchard,  Tim Brooke-Taylor,  Patricia Hayes
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    12 episodes of the children's fairytale drama. Everyone dreams of running away at least once in their lifetime. Three brothers sail away to find Grasshopper Island which is perfect: sun, sand, fruit in the trees and fish in the sea. No winter woolies, no haircuts, no school dinners, no goodnight ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 42 members
    Not available for rental

Charles Hawtrey facts

5 most recent films

Carry On Quizzing - 2.5 stars
Carry On Abroad - 3.5 stars
Carry On Matron - 3.5 stars
Carry On At Your Convenience - 3.5 stars
Carry On Henry - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Will Hay - The Ghost of St Michael's - 3.5 stars
Carry on Screaming - 3.5 stars
Carry On Camping - 3.5 stars
A Canterbury Tale - 3.5 stars
The Goose Steps Out - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Our House - 2.0 stars
Grasshopper Island - 2.0 stars
The Terrornauts - 3.0 stars
You're Only Young Twice - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Kenneth Williams - 28 times - show films
Joan Sims - 26 times - show films
Sid James - 20 times - show films
hattie Jacques - 17 times - show films
Bernard Bresslaw - 15 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Gerald Thomas - 32 times - show films
none - 6 times - show films
Montgomery Tully - 2 times - show films
Emeric Pressburger - 2 times - show films
Basil Dearden - 2 times - show films