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Obituaries - Kenneth Williams". BritishComedy.org.uk. April 1988. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016 . Retrieved 9 June 2018. David Benson's 1996 Edinburgh Fringe show, Think No Evil of Us: My Life with Kenneth Williams, saw Benson playing Williams; after touring, the show ran in London's West End. Benson reprised his performance at the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe and continues to tour. [49] WILLIAMS, KENNETH (1926–1988)". English Heritage. Archived from the original on 4 May 2014 . Retrieved 4 May 2014. BFI Screenonline: Williams, Kenneth (1926–1988) Biography". Screenonline.org.uk . Retrieved 30 June 2014.

There are also several recordings of Round the Horne [57] and Just a Minute that include Williams. [58] Books [ edit ] Contrary to several opinions, I don’t believe he was tortured by his sexuality. He was born in 1926, forty-one years before the legalisation of homosexual acts between consenting adults. He belonged to a more discreet generation, as he said, ‘before the love that dare not speak its name started shouting the odds from the rooftops.’ Was he homosexual? ‘Mentally yes, spiritually yes, physically no,’ was his sober answer. In his cups, he would tell the tale of his exciting encounter with a young Sikh in Ceylon, in a coconut grove in Kurunegala. ‘It was only fumbling, just the Barclays Bank.’ Customarily, when ladies were present, he eschewed the rhyming slang and put on his Noel Coward voice to roll the word ‘masturbatory’ round his tongue. The first of the programmes said that, towards the end of his life and struggling with depression and ill health, Williams abandoned Christianity following discussions with the poet Philip Larkin. Williams had been brought up a Wesleyan and then a Methodist, though he spent much of his life struggling with Christianity's teachings on homosexuality. [43] He was in pain (‘oh, this bloody ulcer and spastic colon’), he had given up smoking (a lifelong recreation), and he was waiting to go into hospital (‘how I HATE those places’) for an operation he dreaded. He was frightened. And he was fed up. He knew he had painted himself into a corner. Professionally and personally, he had nowhere left to go. Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - For more than forty years the much-loved actor, broadcaster and comedian Kenneth Williams kept a journal whose existence he occasionally used as a thread ('You'll be in my diary!') but whose contents he tantalisingly kept almost completely to himself.After his death in 1988, rumours that the diaries might one day be published sent a shiver of anticipation and dread through the theatrical world. What would they reveal about friends and colleagues And what would they disclose of the darker, lonelier side which it was widely suspected lay behind Williams's outrageous public person 864 pp. Englisch.Kenneth Williams Unseen by Wes Butters and Russell Davies, the first Williams biography in 15 years, was published in October 2008. [45] Kenneth knew he went too far too often. Once we had him to supper with the head of an Oxford college, a woman he professed himself eager to meet. He liked the idea of conversation with academics. First he charmed her, then, as the drink and the devil got to him, he appalled her with a stream of the crudest obscenities. He recognised that this outlandish behaviour drove friends away, but somehow he couldn’t stop himself. One of his oldest chums was the film director John Schlesinger, who had been with Kenneth, and Stanley Baxter and Peter Nichols, in Combined Services Entertainments in the Far East in the 1940s, putting on those concert parties so brilliantly evoked in Nichols’s Privates on Parade. John hadn’t seen Kenneth for some years, so we invited them for a meal. John was apprehensive, fearing an evening of self-indulgent self-centred queeniness. In the event, Kenneth was on his best behaviour, twinkling, nostalgic, affectionate, fun. John suggested a rematch at his house and, when it came, Kenneth was at his worst. He started loud and funny, but as the night wore on grew ever louder, more raucous and less amusing. The problem, I sensed, was that, at John’s, Alan Bennett was part of the party and was so delightful, so gently droll, that Kenneth couldn’t cope with the competition and couldn’t bear himself for seeing it as competition.The evening was a flop and John and Kenneth, once such friends, never saw each other again. Stevens, Christopher (2011). Born Brilliant: The Life of Kenneth Williams. London: John Murray. pp.7–9. ISBN 978-1-84854-195-5. Archif ITV Cymru Wales LlGC ITV Cymru Wales Archive NLW. "Filming Carry On Up The Khyber, Snowdonia, 1968". Youtube . Retrieved 25 February 2023. Freeland, Michael (1993). Kenneth Williams: A Biography. Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd. ISBN 978-0297812258.

Other fascinating revelations made in the book concern Williams' private life. It reports on the actor's long-lasting relationship with Tom Waine, who was an Oxford University student in the 1960s when they first met. Although their relationship does not appear to have been sexual - Waine's partner was a postman, Clive Dennis - Williams is said to have been deeply in love with Tom. The three formed somewhat of a love triangle, spending great amounts of time together, holidaying in Tangier, and becoming close to each other's families. Both Tom and Clive were interviewed extensively for Born Brilliant, and shared their own diaries, letters, and photographs. Perhaps the most moving of Stevens's discoveries, however, are lines in one of the letters to his friends Tom and Clive that express his growing disenchantment with the notion that it was possible to be truly close to another person: "All problems have to be solved eventually by ONESELF, and that's where all your lovely John Donne stuff turns out to be a load of crap because, in the last analysis, A MAN IS AN ISLAND." Lyulph Stanley School, Camden Street: corner of Camden Street and Plender Street". Collage – The London Picture Archive. City of London Corporation. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018 . Retrieved 16 February 2020.Putting one up for Kenneth Williams". Heritage Calling. 22 February 2014. Archived from the original on 23 April 2018 . Retrieved 28 June 2017.

Obituaries". Britishcomedy.org.uk. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015 . Retrieved 30 June 2014.Williams, a trained engraver, worked as a map-maker during the war and listed calligraphy among his hobbies in Who's Who, but his astonishing skill has confounded even Nicolas Barker, a former handwriting expert at the British Museum, who has looked at the diaries. Thorpe, Vanessa (9 October 2010). "Kenneth Williams: secret loves behind the life of a tormented man". The Guardian . Retrieved 28 June 2014. Kenneth Charles Williams was born on 22 February 1926 in Bingfield Street, Kings Cross, London. [3] His parents were Charles George Williams, who managed a hairdressers in the Kings Cross area, and Louisa Alexandra ( née Morgan), who worked in the salon. Charles was a Methodist who had "a hatred of loose morals and effeminacy", according to Barry Took, Williams's biographer. Charles thought the theatre immoral and effeminate, although his son aspired to be involved in the profession from an early age. [4] Between 1935 and 1956, Williams lived with his parents in a flat above his father's barber shop at 57 Marchmont Street, Bloomsbury. Williams had a half-sister, Alice Patricia "Pat", born in 1923 before his mother had met Charles and three years before Kenneth was born. [5]