Kenneth Charles Williams (22 February 1926 – 15 April 1988) was a British comic actor, star of 26 Carry On films, numerous television shows, and radio comedies with Tony Hancock and Kenneth Horne.

Life and career

Kenneth Charles Williams was born on 22 February 1926 in Bingfield Street, King's Cross, London.GRO Register of Births: MAR 1926 1b 408 ISLINGTON - Kenneth C. Williams The son of Louisa ("Lou" or "Louie") and Charles Williams (a barber), and with a half-sister called Alice Patricia, he was educated at Lyulph Stanley School. Although his education was ordinary, he was a voracious reader throughout his life and in his interviews he could often quote entire poems or literary extracts purely from memory. Extracts from the diaries he kept as an adult show that he adored his supportive, theatrical mother but despised his homophobic, morose and selfish father.

Williams became an apprentice draughtsman to a mapmaker and joined the army in 1944 at the age of 18. He was part of the Royal Engineers survey section in Bombay when he first performed on stage, with Combined Services Entertainment along with Stanley Baxter and Peter Nichols.Army www.britmovie.co.uk/actors/w/004.html Retrieved 08/10/07