Charles Hawtrey

AKA: Чарльз Хоутри, George Frederick Joffre Hartree
1.479

1914-11-30

Hounslow, Middlesex, England, UK

Biography

George Frederick Joffre Hartree, known as Charles Hawtrey, was an English comedy actor and musician. Beginning at an early age as a boy soprano, he made several records before moving on to radio. His later career encompassed the theatre, the cinema, through the Carry On films, and television.

Crew Roles

What Do We Do Now?
Director
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Director of Photography
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {81}

Dan Dann

1966-05-20 6.487

Carry On Screaming!

The sinister Dr. Watt has an evil scheme going—he's kidnapping beautiful young women and turning them into mannequins to sell to local stores. Fortunately for him, Detective Sergeant Bung is on the ca ...
Genre :Comedy, Horror

Duc de Pommfrit

1967-03-02 6.6

Don't Lose Your Head

Amidst the French revolution, Citizen Robespierre is beheading the aristocracy! When word gets to England, noblemen Sir Rodney Ffing and Lord Darcy Pue take it upon themselves to aid their French coun ...
Genre :Comedy

Mr. Barron

1967-12-02 6.468

Carry On Doctor

Francis Bigger, a notorious charlatan who tours the country lecturing on the subject of mind over matter, slips off the platform in the middle of his performance and ends up in hospital under the care ...
Genre :Comedy

Seneca

1964-11-08 6.581

Carry On Cleo

Two Britons—inventor Hengist Pod, and Horse, a brave and cunning fighter—are captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to Rome. One of their first encounters in Rome leaves Hengist being mist ...
Genre :Comedy

Chief Big Heap

1965-11-26 6.3

Carry On Cowboy

Stodge City is in the grip of the Rumpo Kid and his gang. Mistaken identity again takes a hand as a 'sanitary engineer' named Marshal P. Knutt is mistaken for a law marshal. Being the conscientious so ...
Genre :Comedy, Western

Special Constable Timothy Gorse

1960-02-22 6.254

Carry On Constable

With a flu epidemic running rife, three new bumbling recruits are assigned to Inspector Mills police station. With help from Special Constable Gorse, they manage to totally wreck operations of the pol ...
Genre :Comedy

Private Jimmy Widdle

1968-02-12 6.446

Carry On Up the Khyber

Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond looks after the British outpost near the Khybar pass. Protected by the kilted Third Foot and Mouth regiment, you would think they were safe, but the Khazi of Kalabar has other ...
Genre :Adventure, Comedy

Tom

1935-09-01 5

Man of the Moment

Love blossoms after a young man rescues a pretty girl who attempted to drown herself. ...
Genre :Comedy

Captain Gerrard Le Pice

1967-08-10 5.8

Follow That Camel

Bertram Oliphant 'Bo' West wants to clear his unjustly smeared reputation, so he joins the Foreign Legion—with Simpson his manservant in tow. But the fort they get posted to is full of eccentric legio ...
Genre :Comedy

Mr. James Bedsop

1970-09-20 5.691

Carry On Loving

The Wedded Bliss computer dating agency aims to bring together the lonely hearts of Much-Snoggin-in-the-Green. Its owner, Sidney Bliss, has enough complications in his own love life, but still produce ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Sir Roger de Lodgerley

1971-06-03 6.017

Carry On Henry

Henry VIII has just married Marie of Normandy, and is eager to consummate their marriage. Unfortunately for Henry, she is always eating garlic, and refuses to stop. Deciding to get rid of her in his u ...
Genre :Adventure, Comedy, History, Romance

Dr. Francis A. Goode

1972-05-05 6.112

Carry On Matron

A gang of thieves plan to make their fortune by stealing a shipment of contraceptive pills from Finisham maternity hospital. They assume disguises and infiltrate the hospital, but everything doesn't g ...
Genre :Comedy

Walter Sweetley

1964-02-23 5.9

Carry On Jack

Able seaman Poop-Decker signs up for adventure on the high seas with the wicked Captain Fearless. Those swabbing the decks include Juliet Mills, Charles Hawtrey and Donald Houston. The film was origi ...
Genre :Comedy, History

Agent Charlie Bind

1964-06-01 6.411

Carry On Spying

Carry On favourite Barbara Windsor makes her debut in this outrageous send-up of the James Bond movies. Fearless agent Desmond Simpkins and Charlie Bind, aided and abetted by the comely Agent Honeybut ...
Genre :Comedy

Humphrey Hinton

1959-01-30 6.4

Carry On Nurse

In Haven Hospital, a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital altogether. The formidable Matron's debut gives everyone a chill every time she walks past, with only Reckitt stan ...
Genre :Comedy

Gabriel Dimple

1961-04-04 6.25

Carry On Regardless

After a bunch of no-hopers approaches an employment agency, the anarchy mounts as they do a series of odd jobs, including a chimp's tea party, trying to stay sober at a wine tasting… and demolishing a ...
Genre :Comedy

Mr. Michael Bean

1959-08-20 6.3

Carry On Teacher

When a well-loved headmaster decides to retire, his scheming pupils have other ideas. The cunning boys unleash a campaign of practical jokes, armed with gin, itching power, and bombs! ...
Genre :Comedy

Private Peter Golightly

1958-08-31 6.4

Carry On Sergeant

Sergeant Grimshawe wants to retire in the flush of success by winning the Star Squad prize with his very last platoon of newly called-up National Servicemen. But a motley bunch they turn out to be, an ...
Genre :Comedy, War

Bill

1954-06-25 5.676

Paid to Kill

A man pays a hitman to kill him. Circumstances change and he tries to call off the hit but he has trouble getting the deal killed. ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

Edwin Tallweather

1937-12-23 0

East of Ludgate Hill

When the City stockbroker firm of Macintyre & Son records a substantial yearly profit, its senior staff are each promised a £50 bonus. But their hasty plans for spending their windfalls are put in je ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Thomas Duckett

1944-08-21 6.9

A Canterbury Tale

Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury. ...
Genre :Mystery, War, Drama

Walter Bagley

1970-03-20 5.82

Carry On Up the Jungle

The Carry On team send up the Tarzan tradition in great style. Lady Evelyn Bagley mounts an expedition to find her long-lost baby. Bill Boosey is the fearless hunter and guide. Prof. Tinkle is searchi ...
Genre :Comedy

Various Characters (archive footage)

1977-11-10 5.7

That's Carry On!

Celebrating twenty years of classic Carry On films, two of the films’ best-loved stars, Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor return to Pinewood film studios to unwrap some rib-tickling moments from th ...
Genre :Comedy

Mr. Eustace Tuttle

1972-12-01 6.259

Carry On Abroad

A group of holidaymakers head for the Spanish resort of Elsbels for a 4-day visit. When they get there, they find the Hotel still hasn't been finished being built, and the weather is awful. And there ...
Genre :Comedy

Terry "Pintpot" Tankard

1963-06-01 6.424

Carry On Cabby

Speedee Taxis is a great success, which means its workaholic owner Charlie starts neglecting Peggy, his wife. Suddenly a fleet of rival taxis appears from nowhere and start pinching all the fares. The ...
Genre :Comedy

Mr. Charles Coote

1971-12-10 6.2

Carry On at Your Convenience

At WC Boggs' Lavatory factory, Vic Spanner is the union representative who calls a strike at the drop of a hat. However, eventually everyone gets fed up with him. ...
Genre :Comedy

Dr. Ernest Stoppidge

1969-12-05 6.052

Carry On Again Doctor

Dr. Nookey is disgraced and sent to a remote island hospital. He is given a secret slimming potion by a member of staff, Gladstone Screwer, and he flies back to England to fame and fortune. But others ...
Genre :Comedy

Mr. Charlie Muggins

1969-05-29 6.521

Carry On Camping

Sid and Bernie keep having their amorous intentions snubbed by their girlfriends Joan and Anthea, so when they decide to take them on a holiday to Paradise Camp, they think they're off to a nudist col ...
Genre :Comedy

Joshua Yellowlees

1967-02-01 5.2

The Terrornauts

A group of scientists are kidnapped and taken to an outer space outpost in order to save Earth from destruction. ...
Genre :Science Fiction

Co-Driver

1979-12-17 7.4

The Plank

Classic short British comedy, full of stars, about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless dialogue" which consists of a few mumbled sounds to ...
Genre :Comedy

Choir Singer / Goose Thief / Angel / Spirit of Christmas Past / Gloria / Buttons

1969-12-24 6.2

Carry On Christmas

Ebenezer Scrooge is a misery on Christmas, not allowing people money or doing anything to share Christmas cheer around his employees or acquaintances. While Scrooge is visited by three ghosts we see h ...
Genre :Fantasy, Comedy

Percy Thorne

1941-02-04 6.6

The Ghost of St. Michael's

Will Hay, back in his role as a hapless teacher, is hired by a grim school in remotest Scotland. The school soon starts to be haunted by a legendary ghost, whose spectral bagpipes signal the death of ...
Genre :Comedy

Swyne

1969-12-01 3.8

Zeta One

A race of sexy, other-dimensional specimens arrive to Earth to kidnap women to repopulate their planet. ...
Genre :Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction

Max

1942-08-01 6.7

The Goose Steps Out

Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new secret weapon, causing chaos in a Hitler Youth school ...
Genre :Comedy, War

Adolphus Hayman

1952-07-01 5.7

You're Only Young Twice!

Ada Shore (Diane Hart) arrives at Skerryvore University in Scotland in search of her long-lost uncle Connell O’Grady (Joseph Tomelty), who was once a subversive Irish poet but is now working under an ...
Genre :Comedy

Young Orton

1942-08-11 6.2

Let the People Sing

An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a village hall. ...
Genre :Comedy

Pvt. 'Professor' Hatchett

1958-01-01 6.4

I Only Arsked

A group of misfit soldiers are desperately trying to fiddle themselves some leave. Instead they wrangle a posting to the British Middle-East protectorate of Darawa. Their frustrations and disappointme ...
Genre :Comedy

Mr. Roper

1961-06-01 6.2

Dentist on the Job

Colonel Proudfoot of Proudfoot Industries tries to entice a couple of newly qualified dentists to advertise "Dreem", a revolutionary type of toothpaste, but he knows that if the dentists learn that th ...
Genre :Comedy

Cashier-Searchlight Operator (uncredited)

1937-09-01 0

The Gap

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army. ...
Genre :War, Documentary

Bert Fitch

1949-10-26 6.9

Passport to Pimlico

When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part of Burgundy, France and thus foreign territory. The ...
Genre :Comedy

Long John Silver / Old Blind Pew / Night Watchman / Nipper the Flipper

1970-12-24 7.6

Carry On Again Christmas

The second of the four Carry On Christmas specials, this one loosely recounts the story of Treasure Island with Sid James as Long John Silver and Barbara Windsor, strangely, as Jim Hawkins. This speci ...
Genre :Comedy, TV Movie

Septimus

1937-05-27 7.1

Good Morning, Boys!

Dr. Benjamin Twist (Hay) and his pupils become involved with art thieves on a trip to Paris. Hay’s seamy schoolmaster act is supported by a fine cast including Charles Hawtrey and Lilli Palmer. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Jeweller

1959-12-17 6.1

Please Turn Over

The orderly suburban life of a 1950's English town is turned on its head when the teenaged daughter of one of the residents writes a steamy bestseller featuring characters obviously based on the local ...
Genre :Comedy

Man in Hippodrome Audience

1955-03-15 7.7

As Long as They're Happy

The suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his wife Stella that their two married daughters, Pat and Corrine are in trouble and need funds to come home a ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

Lew Rimmel

1951-05-07 6

The Galloping Major

A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortunately the horse is useless on the flat, so they try entering him as a jumper. ...
Genre :Comedy

Arnold

1961-10-17 5.9

What a Whopper

A writer attempts to raise some cash by writing a book about the Loch Ness Monster. No publisher will take it because they all think there isn't really a monster. The writer and some of his friends ma ...
Genre :Comedy

Silas Withering

1960-01-31 6.5

Inn for Trouble

Peggy Mount and David Kossoff star as Ada and Alf Larkin in this big screen version of the hugely popular 1950s TV comedy. Alf Larkin has finally made good his dream to own a pub. The trouble is, it's ...
Genre :Comedy

Woodley

1939-06-29 7.227

Where's That Fire

Capt Viking and his incompetent fire crew accidentally foil a plot to steal the crown jewels. ...
Genre :Comedy

Nick

1940-04-20 0

Jailbirds

Two convicts escape prison and get a job in a bakery. Their attempts to go straight are endangered by a third escaped convict. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

George Crumb

1952-05-02 6.3

Brandy for the Parson

A young couple get involved with a smuggler ...
Genre :Comedy

Fisher

1956-01-01 6

The March Hare

Sir Charles Hare, a young Irish baronet, gambles his all on one of his horses at Ascot. But the horse is 'pulled', and Sir Charles is forced to sell his Irish estate. His aunt, however, has some surpr ...
Genre :Comedy

Scruffy (office boy)

1955-11-01 5.5

Timeslip

An atomic scientist is found floating in a river with a bullet in his back and a radioactive halo around his body. The radioactivity has put him seven-and-a-half seconds ahead of us in time. He teams ...
Genre :Science Fiction

Mike Atkinson

1950-05-15 6

Room to Let

In 1904 London, neighbors begin to suspect that a very strange man calling himself Dr. Fell may indeed be the famous Jack the Ripper. ...
Genre :Mystery, Horror

1934-11-12 0

The Office Wife

“The reconciliation of a divorced couple following the publisher husband's marriage to his secretary.” - BFI. ...
Genre :Drama

Art Student

1942-10-12 6.2

Much Too Shy

A simple handyman, who also is an amateur artist, gets into trouble when the head and shoulders portraits of some prominent local females are sold without his knowledge to an advertising agency and ar ...
Genre :Comedy

court jester

0

The Princess And The Pea

A telling of the famous fairy tale with actors and voice over ...
Genre :

Markham

1949-07-04 5.5

The Story of Shirley Yorke

Nurse Shirley Yorke must assist her boss Dr Napier, the only person able of effecting a new treatment on the ailing wife of a British Lord. The woman dies and the finger is very strongly pointed at Si ...
Genre :Drama

Billy Hart

1932-10-05 0

Marry Me

A British musical comedy film directed by Wilhelm Thiele ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Farr

1951-03-01 8.5

Smart Alec

A young artist plots "the perfect murder" in order to inherit his wealthy uncle's fortune. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Drama

Bit Part (uncredited)

1936-07-20 0

The Brown Wallet

Publisher John Gillespie faces a financial crisis after his business partner skips town with all the firm's assets. Facing ruin, he reluctantly approaches a wealthy aunt for assistance but is met with ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

Waiter at Pub

1954-10-31 5.6

To Dorothy, a Son

Under a complicated bequest from her uncle, Myrtle stands to inherit $2,000,000 if her ex-husband doesn't have any male heirs on the way, else he gets the cash. She journies from New York to England, ...
Genre :Comedy

Cashier

1952-05-01 6

Hammer the Toff

A detective proves that a Robin Hood-type crook did not steal a metal formula. ...
Genre :Crime

Studious Youngster (uncredited)

1937-01-08 6.7

Sabotage

Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her husband has a secret that will affect their relatio ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, Crime

Railway Porter

1955-11-02 5.6

Simon and Laura

A couple of bickering, married performers agree to star in a "Mr. and Mrs." TV show. ...
Genre :Comedy

Charles Martin

1945-01-02 0

The Ten Year Plan

The British Government's ten year plan for providing prefabricated homes. ...
Genre :Documentary

Disc Jockey

1956-03-20 5.1

Who Done It?

This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private detective and investigates a plot to assassinate British sc ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Arthur Figson

1949-10-30 0

Dark Secret

A young couple move into a charming rural cottage. They become fixated upon the mysterious death of the earlier female occupant. ...
Genre :Crime

1977-11-01 0

To See Such Fun

Compilation of classic British comedy moments ...
Genre :Comedy, Documentary

Dancing Boy Scout (uncredited)

1936-02-01 4.7

Cheer Up

An impoverished team of composer and songwriter try to secure financial backing for their new musical, with the assistance of a struggling actress working as a housemaid. ...
Genre :Music

1933-01-01 0

As Good as New

A woman, disappointed in love, becomes increasingly cynical and attempts to marry a wealthy man. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1935-10-28 0

Get Off My Foot

A Smithfield porter becomes a butler, and later finds himself heir to a fortune. ...
Genre :Comedy

Torn

1933-03-01 0

The Melody-Maker

Genre :Music, Comedy

Play Director (uncredited)

1955-11-24 6.464

Man of the Moment

Norman is a file clerk who accidentally becomes a British delegate to a diplomatic conference, befriends the queen of a remote island, and winds up a knight. Norman leaves rooms in shambles, tailors i ...
Genre :Comedy

Various Characters (archive footage) (uncredited)

2001-01-01 0

On Location: The Carry Ons

June Whitfield takes a look at some of the locations used during the making of the legendary 'Carry On' films. ...
Genre :

Various Characters (archive footage) (uncredited)

1998-12-29 7.8

What's a Carry On?

Documentary commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 'Carry On' comedy film series. Archive clips and out-takes are mixed with interviews with the cast. ...
Genre :Documentary

1969-12-24 5.8

Carry On Christmas Specials

These four made-for-TV Christmas Carry On spectaculars feature favourite stories and timely traditions, including Treasure Island, A Christmas Carol, pantomime and much more, in the only way the Carry ...
Genre :Comedy

1960-09-11 6

Our House

A group of very different people pool together their funds and buy a house large enough to accommodate them all. Characters include librarian Georgina Ruddy, council official Simon Willow, unemployabl ...
Genre :

2015-03-04 0

Carry On Forever

Martin Clunes narrates this documentary celebrating the success of the `Carry On' films. The brand has captured audiences throughout the world, and is known for introducing legendary comedy acts such ...
Genre :Documentary

Clarence, Duke of Claridge

1985-01-20 6.3

Super Gran

Adapted from Forrest Wilson's books, the children's programme revolves around a grandmother with super powers and her arch nemesis, The Scunner Campbell. ...
Genre :Comedy, Family, Crime

Charles

1963-01-06 0

Best of Friends

The story about a clerk in an insurance office situated next door to a cafe. ...
Genre :

Private 'Professor' Hatchett

1957-06-19 6

The Army Game

Follows the exploits of Hut 29, a dysfunctional group of soldiers and their National Service conscription into the British Army during the post war years. ...
Genre :Comedy