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Nickname:	Casey / Kenny
Known for:	Carry on Spying, Carry On... Up the Khyber, Carry on Cleo
Birth name:	Kenneth Charles Williams
Birthday:	22 February 1926, London, England, UK
Height:	5' 8" (1.73 m)

Son of a hairdresser. Was in the Royal Engineers in 1945. Was originally trained as a draftsman. He and his family accompanied Barbara Windsor and her first husband "Ronnie Knight" on their honeymoon in Madeira. The only actor in the "Carry On..." films to appear, along with Kenneth Connor and Eric Barker in the first (Carry on Sergeant) and last authentic "Carry On... films (Carry on Emmannuelle). This does not include the heavily criticised Carry on Columbus. His big break came about while playing a serious role on stage -- as the Dauphin in a production of "Saint Joan." A self-confessed hypochondriac, he was plagued by ill health, including ulcers, toward the end of his life. His death from an overdose of sleeping pills and painkillers remains a mystery -- accidental or suicide? Williams publicly insisted that he was celibate, but in private found his homosexuality difficult for him to deal with. Was good friends with gay playwright Joe Orton and his companion Kenneth Halliwell, and performed in Orton's play "Loot" in 1965. Halliwell later murdered Orton in 1967 in a fit of rage with a hammer. Upon his sudden death, the coroner recorded an open verdict, saying it was possible (but unlikely) that Williams had taken an overdose of sleeping pills in addition to his regular pain killers that caused a lethal cocktail. To this day, views are still divided as to whether it was deliberate or not. On one hand, he mentioned many times in his diaries that suicide was the only option, but he always seemed to bounce back from his bouts of depression. Many seem to think that suicide is unlikely simply because he would never have entertained such ideas while his mother was alive (she was left nothing in his will, presumably because Ken was expecting to outlive her).

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