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Williams was fondly regarded in the entertainment industry; in his private life, however, he suffered from depression. He kept a series of diaries throughout his life that achieved posthumous acclaim. The World of Kenneth Williams 1970, Decca SPA 64. Stereo edition of recordings from the 1950s and 1960s. Williams, Kenneth Charles (1926–1988)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (onlineed.). Oxford University Press. 2009. doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/39951. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) Obituaries - Kenneth Williams". BritishComedy.org.uk. April 1988. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016 . Retrieved 9 June 2018.

Kenneth Williams lived here". Shady Old Lady's Guide to London. 3 March 2010 . Retrieved 3 March 2010. Stevens, Christopher (2010). Born Brilliant: The Life of Kenneth Williams. Hachette UK. ISBN 978-1-848-54460-4. I was a friend of Kenneth Williams - not a best friend, but what he called ‘a good chum’ and, over several years, quite a close one: we collaborated on the books he wrote, spent hundreds of hours in one another’s company, shared countless meals, train journeys, trips to the cinema - so when, thirty years ago now, on the night of 14 April 1988, he took his own life, I felt a sense of real loss and sadness. But I wasn’t surprised.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. Barbara Windsor, Kenneth Williams, and the cast of Carry On: what happened next?". The Daily Telegraph. 10 May 2018. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022 . Retrieved 26 August 2018.

Tom Waine and Clive Dennis feature frequently in the published extracts, but they're never fully identified," Stevens said. "One was an Oxford graduate working in the media and the other a postman. Kenneth introduced them both to Swinging London and he enjoyed the frisson of arriving at debauched parties with two 21-year-old men, one of them fey and elegant, and the other raffish and working-class." GRO Register of Deaths: JUN 1988 14 1873 CAMDEN – Kenneth Charles Williams, DoB = 22 February 1926 aged 62 Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects. Kenneth had told me that his father had committed suicide. ‘When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. If you can. Charlie couldn’t.’ Kenneth, full of contradictions,was angry with himself for letting his career be reduced to the chat-show circuit, yet recognised - and relished - his own skill in the genre. After recording one of his appearances on Parkinson early in the evening he would come on to our house to view the transmission, providing a running commentary on his own performance. ‘That’s good, that’s very good. Don’t I look a dish? Lovely tag to that story.’A new biography of comedy star Kenneth Williams to be released in October will make a number of new claims regarding the actor and his family. He was educated at The Lyulph Stanley Boys' Central Council School, [6] [7] a state-owned Central school, [8] in Camden Town, north London and subsequently became apprenticed as a draughtsman to a mapmaker. His apprenticeship was interrupted by the Blitz, and he was evacuated to Bicester, and the home of a bachelor veterinary surgeon. It provided his first experience of an educated, middle-class life, and he loved it. He returned to London with a new, vowel-elongated accent. [9] In 1944, aged 18, he was called up to the British Army. He became a sapper in the Royal Engineers Survey Section, doing much the same work that he did as a civilian. When the war ended he was in Ceylon and he opted to transfer to the Combined Services Entertainment Unit, which put on revue shows. While in that unit he met Stanley Baxter, Peter Vaughan, Peter Nichols and John Schlesinger. [10] 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 ] Cook, Peter; Cook, William (31 August 2013). Tragically I Was An Only Twin: The Comedy of Peter Cook – Peter Cook, William Cook – Google Books. Random House. ISBN 9781446429624 . Retrieved 30 June 2014.

Castle on Luke Street 1978, Sanctuary Records, SU0803. Roy Castle narrated eight stories from the David Lewis Series of books on Side 1. Williams recorded "Lost and Found" on Side 2. Dora Bryan, Derek Nimmo and Thora Hird narrated one story each. Putting one up for Kenneth Williams". Heritage Calling. 22 February 2014. Archived from the original on 23 April 2018 . Retrieved 28 June 2017. Archif ITV Cymru Wales LlGC ITV Cymru Wales Archive NLW. "Filming Carry On Up The Khyber, Snowdonia, 1968". Youtube . Retrieved 25 February 2023. a b "Watch: Carry On Star Kenneth Williams speaking Welsh on TV show". Nation.Cymru. 22 February 2023 . Retrieved 22 February 2023.

An audio reading of Monkey, Arthur Waley's translation of Journey to the West, for Nimbus Records (1981). Re-released on MP3 CD:NI5888, in 2008. [56]

Diary Of A Madman". Britishcomedy.org.uk. Archived from the original on 5 September 2013 . Retrieved 28 June 2014. Thames TV (14 March 1974). "Kenneth Williams interview Good Afternoon 1974". YouTube . Retrieved 25 February 2023. In 2006, Williams' life was the subject of the television play Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!. Michael Sheen portrayed Williams. [50] Recognition [ edit ] 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."

Kenneth was brilliant, gifted, and vulnerable. I felt guilty about his death because I knew that I was one (of several) of his friends who had given up on him. He was very demanding and we didn’t have the time or the patience for our old chum.

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