Charles Hawtrey interviewed

[@jasonmccarthy9553]

Even his wig looks pissed🤣

[@Clarkey1928]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@rustykilt]

Despite all the bad publicity of his later years and his tragic personal life, I will always see the very talented and marvelous character who helped make the CARRY ON series such a success. Charles and Kenneth were my favourites and CARRYON UP THE KYBER my favourite of the series.

[@npr1300A8]

Me too. His character Charlie Muggins is one of many that makes me split my sides every time.

[@trevsedgwick3324]

I do believe we’ve arrived in the nic.😂😂

[@johnbeck9]

So heavily edited... most likely because Charles was pickled. God we need more like him to brighten up our films... What a Carry On.

[@nicholaspayne5162]

mac morrison He seemed to use his alcoholism to plump up his comedic expression. Oliver Reed had a similar knack. And also Arthur Lowe.

[@johnrider5701]

Charlie was so camp he made Kenneth Williams look like John Wayne.

[@WillScarlet1991]

🤣🤣

[@doosra95]

😂😂

[@michaelelsy2209]

😂😂😂😂

[@paulmason6474]

He was in a club in Manchester and somebody stole his mittens. He had a hissy fit❤❤😅😅😅

[@phily8093]

John Wayne was very camp.

[@Funktion58]

That thing on his head had a saucer of milk 5 minutes after that interview, bless him

[@christopherwillimont8807]

What a legend I have the entire carry on collection

[@jali898]

My grandmother knew him quite well, she lived about 5 doors down form him in Deal , apparently he was always pretty nice to her whenever they bumped into each other..i was told its because she never asked him for anything...where lots of other folk always wanted something from him ..

[@Zog696]

Charles Hawtrey was a comic genius,who once seen is never forgotten.Charles ,thanks for all the fun and mayhem you gave us in life.

[@diplomamilldoc8562]

Comic genius seems a huge exaggeration

[@k.avilla8061]

@@diplomamilldoc8562 That's what I was thinking. It doesn't matter which music or comedy celebrity is being featured, you can be absolutely certain that (however ordinary or mundane that person is) some herbert is going to make the comment that that man/ woman s a 'genuis'.

[@diplomamilldoc8562]

@@k.avilla8061 Ronnie Barker genius. John Cleese genius. Hawtrey just another actor.

[@k.avilla8061]

@@diplomamilldoc8562 Einstein genius, Isaac Newton genius, Tesla genius. Mozart genius, Michaelangelo genius. As for John Cleese ( silly walks, dead parrot, biggus dickus ? infantile 5 year old's humour ) You're deluded. Anybody can do what Cleese did (real name ' Cheese' - hence the cheesy humour). Nobody can do what Einstein, Newton and Tesla did ( except them). Barker - muppet. Cleese- bigger muppet. Hawtry- muppet. They're all muppets.

[@diplomamilldoc8562]

@@k.avilla8061 none a bigger muppet than you. Like you have seen you create Fawlty Towers before he did.

[@Iloveflowers2024]

Loved Charles Hawtrey and Kenneth Williams in the Carry Ons. They were my faves. It is sad to know that they suffered like they did.

[@thescrutineer7022]

Yes, they were my favorites too. As a kid I spent hours watching them, sometimes fast forwarding the Carry On films until it got to their parts. I had no idea that they were so unhappy because happiness seemed to just radiate from them. Now I'm older I realise these geniuses were troubled and needed help, so sad.

[@naly202]

Joan Sims and Hattie Jaques were lonely and sad too. Joan never married, Hattie got into an awful relationship with a young man and left her loving husband John Le Mesurier, only to be insulted and dumped by the lover soon afterwards. She fell into depression, gained weight and became very ill. Sid James on the other hand became obsessed with Babs Windsor and when she ended the affair he got depressed and started drinking. He died of heart attack soon afterwards. Sadly, the lives of the beloved Carry on stars weren't as glamorous or happy as we'd expect.

[@thescrutineer7022]

@@naly202 I didn't realise that especially with Hattie. It sounds like a lot of them had their share of the Carry On curse, such a shame.

[@naly202]

@@thescrutineer7022 i don't know if it was a curse. they enjoyed appearing on the Carry ons. it probably was the happiest time of their lives. but had rather sad lives outside the movies. Btw, if you enjoy the "Carry on" cast, i fully recommend the following TV shows: 1. Sykes - it stars Eric Sykes and Hattie Jaques, but also features Joan Sims. 2. Allo Allo!- probably my favourite TV show- it features Kenneth Connor in probably the most heartwarming and charming role of his career as an old romantic undertaker (but also mayor and member of the French Resistance)

[@thescrutineer7022]

@@naly202 OK, I'll take a look thanks.

[@adrinathegreat3095]

He was hated in the area in lived, rude and obnoxious to everyone, often had rentboys up in his flat. Nobody even attended his funeral. A very bizarre character who caused chaos on the set in his later years, not in a comical sense but in a disrupted and annoying way, ended up being sacked, his on screen persona couldn't have been more different than his real life. People hate the truth and prefer to assume he was the likeable and don't realise this was an act, he was good at acting.

[@craigmelvin5206]

Take it you're in deal

[@lukerogers151]

From what I've heard, he was a nasty, rude prick.

[@MagpieSue]

I have read that he was quite nasty to his fans.

[@richlee509]

No ones perfect

[@gothicm3rcy426]

@@j.c985 yea, just like jimmy saville and gary glitter

[@jestanotherguy]

Poor Charles :( you can still see glimmers of the man behind his alcoholism, that anecdote about Peter Rogers and the comment about never meeting gentlemen unless there's a sign on the door! 😂 I have a lot of respect for Roy Hudd who seems to have dealt with the situation very professionally, and just look at Hawtrey's face light up when his given the applause.

[@darrenhirst9900]

I blame that budgie

[@jimcameron2209]

Bit pissed charlie xx

[@petercarrington948]

Charles Hawtrey was great. A normal man who had his issues, like all of us. A legend of the Carry Ons. RIP Charles. We remember you with great affection.❤

[@КурочкаКрашена]

I'm not sure he was a normal man. He was deemed so vile in the community where he lived out his days refuse to have a blue plaque or even his photo in his regular pub. He was caught without his toupee when a 16 year old rent boy set fire to his flat and of course the big news was the toupee not the young man. A sad life.

[@GreenDistantStar]

@@КурочкаКрашена the truth is, he was a horrid little man, mean to fans, fellow actors, his neighbours and even total strangers. He died alone and friendless, which is what he wanted I imagine, and certainly deserved.

[@MarkHarrison733]

@@КурочкаКрашена The boy was only 15.

[@MarkHarrison733]

Why call a paedophile a "normal man"?

[@petercarrington948]

@@MarkHarrison733 oh please, an ordinary man on the sense of alcohol addiction and depression not being a paeodofhile .Anyone knows that's not normal!

[@julianlinsel4346]

Great to see this interview. He gave us so many laughs

[@paulspydar]

I would love to see the parts of the interview that did not make it into the broadcasted version..

[@jonathangems]

He was wonderful. And there were so many other amazing actors/comedians then. No chance of this happening again unless we get British Cinema back. We used to have the second biggest film industry in the world. Now, 99 percent of the films shown in UK cinemas are foreign films - mostly American. It's tragic.

[@gothicm3rcy426]

yea he was wonderful.... set fire to his house whilst in bed with a 15 year old rent boy

[@gothicm3rcy426]

woke has killed everything

[@gnuemacs1166]

Had a computer industry too

[@gnuemacs1166]

Can’t even see the replies to your statement

[@paulhundy2986]

Wonderful ? I heard he was an unbearable asshole

[@wiseguy100]

I wish he would get the rest of Pulp into the studio and make a new album.

[@rebelangel7777]

😂😅😂😅😂😅😂

[@rogerramjet5302]

Yep, top comment! 😂😂

[@siriusblack4671]

XD DUDE

[@AlphaGamer1981]

So sad. My granded recorded all the carry on films from tv. And when i was younger i would watch them all the time, I grew up on those films, and loved everyone who starred in them. Such a shame we lost all of them now, most before i was born (1981) A whole generation of actors been and gone.

[@Buz-Lunch-Punx]

Sauced up to the gills! What a legend!

[@tonysuley4306]

His chin has hit more balls then Ronnie O'Sullivan cue.

[@nicholaspayne5162]

The funniest member of the Carry On team. I love his little quirks. Even in this interview he uses the camera very well.

[@gothicm3rcy426]

not the funniest by far. that goes to sid, joan, and both kenneths

[@83dude]

I agree goth, Charles was a bit of a weirdo , sid And Kenneth were the ultimate duo

[@Bopsterboy]

@@83dude Kenneth Williams was the ultimate weirdo. A very troubled and disturbed person.

[@dylanthomas6717]

Brought a little sunshine into all of our lives! ☀☘

[@h.i.m3646]

Charles died four years after this interview. He was on the sauce all day and night down in Deal, Kent. Great talent and sadly missed.

[@leejam5268]

Love that he was still wearing his shirt and tie from 1969 in 1984

[@paulspydar]

I would love to be able to see the rest of his time on the show ,,(the bits that were cut) I met him when I was 17, he was actually really nice ,not the "nasty piece of work" I often hear him called ..RIP

[@mrdeafa25]

It hasn't dawned on you that the reason he was nice to you is probably because you were 17?

[@13thcentury]

​@@mrdeafa25Well, I say!😅

[@Discobiscuit372]

Just reading The Life And Death Of Charles Hawtrey by Wes Butters..Hawtrey was one of my favourite Carry On stars

[@thelastmotel]

I must be older than i thought lol. For me it was nursery, infants, juniors, then secondary.. Secondary was 1st form, 2nd form, 3rd form, 4th form, then 5th form. After that it was 6th form if you went. None of this year 7, year 8, etc. malarkey, though they still call 6th form sixth form in a lot of places.

[@terencehennegan1439]

In every carry-on film he always glanced at the camera, Don’t think he was supposed to do it but the kept it in. He did it at 3:49.

[@dannyH84]

Charles was absolutely lit 🔥😂

[@janysmahoney1271]

A man true t his character who never shied away from what he really was an DAM t all those who didnt like his lifestyle.. A truly gr8 legend the wonderful Carry-On series

[@j0nnyism]

Ahh good old Charlie. He gave me a lot of laughs when I was a kid watching the carry on films that were on tele

[@ijustdidahugeshit]

Are you planning to get pregnant??

[@markscott554]

Sadly, he went from bread money to drink money. Williams left about 500k which is apparently around 1.5 million today. He and Hawtrey were household names yet they only got about 5k per movie back then, which is about 15k today. Terrible treatment.

[@levimacdonald5188]

Yes the carry on film's 🎬paid badly Dame Barbara Windsor only earned her fortune in eastenders.. Charles Hawtrey had a paupers funeral so he must have boozed he's savings away,,poor man 💔😓 no mourners at he's funeral except nine carry on fan's

[@gothicm3rcy426]

yea thats terrible.... btw my dad earned a quid a week

[@LALakersNornIron]

Yes considering the popularity of the films and their box office success, their merchandise sales, their television compilation ratings, the actors were underpaid. But the reason I think they still did the films was because 6 weeks work on a Carry on Film still got them the money that an average person made in one entire year. Still legal but morally no not right.

[@kevinfowkes2327]

"Williams left about 500k which is apparently around 1.5 million today." A lot of that was the value of his 2 flats (I think he owned his mum's next door as well). Hence it would be substantially more than that today, given how property prices have surged. At least £5 million I'd say. A highly theoretical calculation as the block was demolished about 15 years ago now.

[@andrewgibson]

Well, the english movie stars werent paid much , until the 1960s,small budgets,

[@tonyjlorns1727]

Be all accounts in private where he lived in Deal he was despised

[@apollonia6656]

For a number of reasons: he was extremely rude to people; an alcoholic; an extremely promiscuous homosexual who often would not say no to his propositions. In otherwards: a horrible person.

[@imagecollections6665]

Think the outro was longer than the interview.

[@GarryShepherdDreamGazePostPunk]

J'adore the carry on films🔥🔥🔥

[@ManCave1972]

That TV set is quite the spectacle. Charles seemed a little sauced- God bless the man.

[@cheyennebrennan966]

Such a waste of an immense talent. He strikes me as a truly gentle soul who was swallowed up by an unforgiving world. That's not to say he was necessarily a NICE soul, and he clearly made a LOT of bad choices purely through his own pride...but I still have enormous sympathy for him.

[@ianbannister8404]

A hidden comic genius just loved his comedy 😊

[@Lumibear.]

I think I can actually remember seeing that live as a teenager, funny how some stuff sticks in the mind.

[@RobertCeisler]

"I dig a pygmy by Charles Hawtrey and the deaf aids. Phase one in which Doris gets her oats."

[@BigSky1]

John Lennon.

[@saveyourselves5923]

Charlie reminds me so much of my Grandma Doris for some reason. Same mannerisms and everything 😂

[@michaelmarsh-bl9mg]

Rest in peace Charlie and Roy.

[@cardiffbear]

Hawtrey's pissed

[@andygozzo72]

i think he was nearly constantly sozzled..

[@tonyjlorns1727]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@johnbeck9]

To all those that say he had a sad life, how the feck do you know. Maybe he had a riot being in films, going to parties, getting young a-hole and making money. Ok so towards the end he hit the piss, big deal, so have countless others, Burton, Harris, Oliver Reed and George Best. Hawtry outlived them all and had such fun most of the way.

[@petechambers541]

Ummm we know because his co stars and friends said so

[@kenray9692]

Brilliant comic actor sad life probably couldn't except who he was back in the day and alcohol was his crutch.

[@jaddajn1]

charles hawtrey was just adorable. love him still xx

[@DAVID-sd2lj]

That shirt and tie.

[@tallulahdarling]

Yes poor Charles was three sheets to the wind. The editing is so obvious.

[@brianconway100]

When you break it down, the actual interview (without the film clips) lasted 2min 40. Surely that couldn't have been all that was originally broadcast.

[@mistofoles]

No, most of it was unbroadcastable because Hawtrey was pissed.

[@trevorflarty1811]

I don't care about his faults, etc. I've never met the, "perfect", person.I do know he was, wonderful, actor, with great, comic, timing, & delivery :"Oohh, I say!!

[@levimacdonald5188]

Dear Charles Hawtrey 💔😓 He gave so much laughter in the carry on 🎬📺 Rip Charles Hawtrey he's mother passing ❤had a lot to do with he's heavy drinking 🍸

[@GEricG]

I think that he was also disappointed with his career. Unfortunately although talented, his look precluded him from the kind of roles that he would have liked.

[@markgowans]

It was probably due to the booze but he was apparently a bit of a bastard to everyone especially fans even children. I've read that he was so unpleasant to people that he was even banned from his local boozer in the village where he lived. I think he thought he was a bigger star than he actually was and because of his over the top demands the producer and director of the carry on films had enough of his antics and excessive demands that after Carry on abroad they got rid of him and never hired him again.

[@johnbrooke9948]

I heard he once punched an ex pro boxer in a pub. Paul sykes . Warcry publishing have a youtube channel. Ask somebody on there.

[@bradshawvincent]

Of course Roy Hudd!! Says at the end.

[@TokyoJoe703]

Worst syrup I’ve ever seen. 05:08 - they actually sacked him for being a drunk

[@kevinfowkes2327]

Not directly. He was sacked because he demanded top billing on the next project after "Abroad"...which I think was a Christmas show? The directors told him no and he quit. Undoubtedly his drinking meant they weren't rushing to get him to change his mind.

[@sharonlee4773]

Want that shirt!

[@anthonyhorton3689]

In fact he was in 22 Carry Ons plus 2 Christmas TV shows.

[@nicholaspayne5162]

anthony horton He was in 23. He only missed Carry On Cruising in his time. Carry On Abroad was the twenty fourth movie and his last.

[@SistorCarrera]

loved Charlie shame alcohol feked him up

[@timothypoulter8285]

You can see where the Fast Show got the idea of Tommy Cockles and Arthur Atkinson here.

[@robertmcelwaine7024]

Besides being an alcoholic Hawtrey by all accounts has been described as not being the most pleasant of people to know or work with. He reportedly actually once threw a vase of flowers at a nurse who asked him for an autograph when he had been in hospital, and I think if I remember rightly that he supposedly thought that as an actor he should not have been above working in Carry On movies in spite of the fact that it's these movies that essentially made his career.

[@stevepayne5965]

Kenneth Williams was the same.

[@tomkent4656]

@@stevepayne5965 But at least Williams was a genuine wit.

[@WillScarlet1991]

@@tomkent4656 Twit?

[@hyena131]

@@tomkent4656 That's debatable...

[@philipbonner6486]

Yes Charles Hawtrey was a comedy legend, yes he had problems with drinking, and that is down to depression, thanks for the laughs Charles Hawtrey.

[@pollardmark]

Great Memories :-)

[@cannonfodder6654]

OH HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@gremlin8725]

Charles hawtrey didn't seem a very happy person ...

[@MrMotstoor]

Sad sad life he ended up having

[@robbryant52]

Pissed but great

[@innovativeinnovation6629]

It's obvious that he was never comfortable with himself. People would ask for his autograph and he would think they were mocking him. Such as shame.

[@seansmith445]

Where did you hear that?

[@algie-t2w]

Strange how in the 1970s they made shirts and ties out of wallpaper.

[@thomassturge1274]

They still do that now.

[@thelastmotel]

this was filmed in 1984

[@thomassturge1274]

@@thelastmotel Well, he was eccentric. He prob preferred the 1970’s clothes he had than modern stuff. And if he liked it that’s all that matters. Why waste money on stuff just for the sake of it. I’ve got clothes that I still wear from 25 yrs ago. Back when clothes were well made and lasted. Not like the cheap crappily made stuff you get it most shops now.

[@giovanna722]

I think it's a great look for such a mousey little guy. Gives him presence.

[@simonp7095]

Why did he keep asking for top billing on the carry on specials and some of the films ?

[@williamneumyer7147]

"Infant school" - so much better than "primary"!

[@dublinius]

Used to be Infant, Junior and Secondary schools.

[@robertbrothers8814]

Wonder if Butch Hartman used Hawtrey’s appearance to design Denzel Crocker.

[@RefinedRouge]

Why are there no characters anymore

[@Sdutt_author]

He didn't say no to the series he wasn't asked back after his imbibing on set..

[@chucky2316]

Best part of deal is the full English breakfast cafe and Charles hawtreys blue plauqe

[@callumbarrington898]

Charles was supposed to be in the 1972 Carry On Christmas TV show, but when Sid James and Terry Scott were unable to do it, Charles, who would have been the most senior cast member, wanted top billing, but Peter Rogers, notoriously prickly with money, said no. Charles felt very upset and decided not to take part. The next film, Carry On Girls, had a part written for him (Cecil Gaybody), but the relationship between Peter and Charles had broken down. Strangely, when they were planning a Carry On Again Nurse in the 1980s, they wanted Charles back, but he and Kenneth Williams died before anything happened. I don't think there was an issue with the director, Gerald Thomas. Despite his drink issues, he was professional on set, and was apparently very charming when he wasn't drinking.

[@Bezart34]

Nice wig!!!!

[@doosra95]

So campy and his quark’s are very unique. His facial expressions and eye movements make me laugh so hard🤣🤣🤣 His Toupee ( wig) looks so out of place🤣🤣🤣

[@KamikazeBOB]

Graham Coxon is Charles Hawtrey's son.

[@blackmore4]

Um... that'd be impossible ;)

[@Buz-Lunch-Punx]

That's actually true. It's been well hidden, but its an open secret in showbiz circles

[@blackmore4]

@Mike Brailsford Yes but not a gay man as gay as Charles Hawtrey ;)

[@claireseyeviewonredbubble]

Online info says he was born in Rintein Germany in 69 to Bob and Pauline Coxon and they moved back to England in 74

[@ghosthunter1818]

Charles hawtrey died in 1988 aged 73.

[@amyyarwood1612]

WRONG !!!

[@tonyclive8084]

whats up with his Barnet ! thats gotta be the worse syrup ever. lol

[@asa1973100]

For the start, he didn’t live in a flat. He lived in a very nice Georgian house, coincidentally next door, but One to my parents, and yes, he did have rather a lot of sailors, visiting him wink wink and the occasional male escort. He was quite often paralytic drunk and could hardly get through his own front door, but I’ll tell you something now he was never rude. He was never obnoxious. You’ll find a lot of that is tosh and made a good story sold to papers by people looking to cash in !! … And yes he certainly did tell people a few Home truths in the local public houses, especially when they were taking the piss out of him for being gay

[@xplaybwoix]

That is certainly a side you never here mentioned in any documentary . But I can believe it and hope it is true. I would imagine any encounter to refuse an autograph was based on something that had happened to Charlie prior to put him in that mood. Without drink , I imagine he was a nice person and could be very warm and friendly. Can't have been easy at that time being gay when it was illegal and so openly and obviously gay.

[@lindathomas5500]

Charles hawtrey loved to shock and make people feel uncomfortable. Apparently that’s why Kenneth Williams wasn’t keen on him. And because he would complain about some of his comments, it would just spur him on to annoy him more lol. Barbara Windsor though loved his cheekiness. 😂

[@consul6262]

From my understanding Williams, struggled with his sexuality, so probably envied Hawltry who obviously enjoyed his.

[@rainbowsalads]

All the stories he could tell. darn, we get under 6 mins

[@BucklandsP3]

He was a comic genius.

[@diplomamilldoc8562]

Nonsense

[@k.avilla8061]

This is a repeat of my comment above : " It doesn't matter which music or comedy celebrity is being featured, you can be absolutely certain that (however ordinary or mundane that person is) some herbert is going to make the comment that that man/ woman s a 'genuis' ". I bet, when I start checking the other comments, more of you will have said the same ridiculous thing.

[@Eatcrow]

Graham Moffat 2nd cousin, nice to see it again …

[@TaSwavo]

Hawtree amazing. Hudd the only comedian who offended me ever (I'm almost 60), At a Bournemouth show he ridiculued people with a hare lip. I was maybe 8. I hope he's in hell now for how he made me feel. As it affects a lot of people he must have made thousands of tiny kids feel like dirt. The first time in my life I wished a person got ill forever. But Hawtree was great.

[@leytonjay]

He was pissed. Chronic alcoholism from before the Carry Ons.

[@chucky2316]

What's wrong with that

[@amyyarwood1612]

SADLY

[@BillyJango]

He doesn't come across as being nasty at all. He seems really pleasant.

[@thelastmotel]

cos the camera's on. celebs with reps for being nasty, are never nasty when the camera's rolling.

[@BillyJango]

@@thelastmotel Yes I suppose. I never thought of that.

[@jakecavendish3470]

It's quite sad to watch, he seems quite unhinged 😢

[@suzyqualcast6269]

Nice shirt, aint sure bout the hcut, guv.

[@Aspergianfirestarter]

'Cazeron Caztabul'? I think he means Carry On Constable.

[@Craig702]

A crime? Oh Goody!!

[@PerkoVY]

Crunch crunch

[@vinmansbakery]

John Lennon and the Deaf Aids brought me here

[@nobbynoris]

Lennon's first band?

[@lmjones7716]

Where's me washboard?

[@2760ade]

How queer!

[@rikkic7000]

I thought he was at his best as the Duke dePomme Frite

[@PAsst-ec3lb]

Ist das Lauterbach?

[@semajttam]

Roy Hudd :)

[@honeybeebadger]

That was a quick and awkward interview

[@jacobmassey3897]

Is that Archie Butterworth from Corrie doing the interview?

[@bradshawvincent]

whos the interviewer/.....I know I know him!

[@blackmore4]

Roy Hudd.

[@lizzydripping2862]

His house burnt down while he was in bed with 16 yr old boy

[@MarkHarrison733]

The boy was 15.

[@ruff1draft]

Who is interviewer and is he still alive

[@Catmad65]

Roy Hudd passed 2020

[@ruff1draft]

@@Catmad65 Oh really. Not long ago then. Roy Hudd I shall look him up.

[@pauliemoody8754]

Well now. Seeing these actors actresses were on three four bottles of gin a day wot great entertainers they were for us.