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Kenneth WilliamsKenneth Charles Williams (February 22, 1926 - April 15, 1988) was a British actor and star of over twenty Carry On... films as well as notable radio comedies with Tony Hancock and Kenneth Horne.Born in London and educated at Lylph Stanley School, Williams was then apprenticed as a draughtsman. His relationship with his parents - he hated his father and adored his mother - was key to the development of his later character. He joined the army aged 18, part of the Royal Engineers[?] survey section in Bombay, but later he joined Combined Services Entertainment. After the war he had a number of roles in repertory theatre. He was discovered after playing the Dauphin in George Bernard Shaw's St Joan in 1954; but few serious roles lent themselves to his style of delivery. He had his break in radio comedy with Hancock's Half Hour from 1954 and then Round the Horne, consolidating this with Beyond Our Ken. In Round the Horne, his roles included the eccentric folk singer, Rambling Syd Rumpo (N.B. not "Sid" as previously listed), and as Sandy, of the extremely camp couple, Julian and Sandy (Julian played by Hugh Paddick); notable for their arch double entendres and use of the fairground slang language Polari (not just gay). He was a regular for many years on the BBC radio panel game, Just a Minute. He expanded then into television and British films. Particularly in the theatre he was famous for breaking out of character and talking to the audience. Although he publicly professed to follow a celibate lifestyle, Williams moved in homosexual circles. His friend Joe Orton wrote Loot for him in 1966, playing Inspector Truscott (!). Following his death, the publication of his secret diaries caused some controversy.
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his usefulness. Looking on his work as the work of God, and therefore
it, devoting to it time, talents, wealth and life, and pursuing it with
faltered. Profoundly religious, his great aim was to establish it on the
from the beginning to the moral elements of the little society, and as
persons of irreproachable character. As soon as affairs appeared
destitute land. Four Franciscans answered the appeal, and on the 25th of
celebrated in Quebec for the first time since the days of Cartier and
from its birth has claimed devotion to the Holy Family and to St. Anne,
were joined by a little band of Jesuits, who came to fertilize the soil
arrival gradually prepared the way for the realization of the pious
throughout the country. On these we shall touch in a future page.
Indefatigable in his zeal for the colony, Champlain made frequent voyages
positive dangers then often attendant on travelling, and although he was
of the Company, the jealousy and rivalry of the traders, and the coolness
because ever sustained by trust in God and faith in his work. At great
all directions, observing, and afterwards describing its physical
to time, we even find him in arms against the dreaded. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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