Freddie Frinton s Dinner For One
When is a British comedy legend not a British comedy legend? The answer, as far as the case of Freddie Frinton is concerned, is when you are British and a comic legend in most places except Britain.
Freddie Frinton is quite an obscure figure these days in the country of his birth. In the 1960s, however, he was one of Britain s most popular comic performers, co-starring with Thora Hird in a sitcom, Meet The Wife, that was such a fixture on television in those days that it became immortalised by John Lennon in one of the tracks -
Rosalind Knight, stalwart of TV comedy and drama who made her name in Carry On films – obituary
Getting her start as a hapless student nurse, she went on to St Trinian’s and found later fame in Gimme Gimme Gimme and Friday Night Dinner
Rosalind Knight in Crown Court in 1982
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Rosalind Knight, who has died aged 87, was born into a show business family and quickly made her own impression on screen in the early Carry On films.
She first played the hapless, short-sighted Student Nurse Nightingale in Carry On Nurse (1959), the second in the series, seen keeping vigil over an unconscious patient and watching his drip feed with great intensity – before losing her glasses in a hospital sluice.
Barbara Windsor, Kenneth Williams and the cast of Carry On: what happened next?
The British comedy institution was a springboard for everyone from the late Dame Barbara to Sid James and Hattie Jacques
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What a Carry On: Sid James and Barbara Windsor were stalwarts of the British comedy series
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An original of the “bubbly blonde” species, Dame Barbara Windsor, who died this week aged 83, had an extraordinary life and career.
Achieving fame as the skimpily-attired sauce-pot in the Carry On series, the late actress would go on to star in EastEnders and became the nation’s unofficial naughty auntie. With walk-on appearances by the Kray Twins and George Best, her life made for a riveting story.