Diary Of A Madman". Britishcomedy.org.uk. Archived from the original on 5 September 2013 . Retrieved 28 June 2014. That he died a burden and a disappointment to himself is both sad and wrong, because here we are, thirty years after his death, and for many he seems as potent a presence as ever. The books, the tapes, the Carry Ons, we buy, we listen, we watch them still. That extraordinary voice continues to resonate, one of the most distinctive English sounds of our time.If you can do it (and it’s a tough one to imitate: Frankie Howerd is so much easier), there’s money to be earned in the voice-over market as a Kenneth Williams sound-alike. Ever since he died, actors (most of whom never knew him) have been appearing in stage shows and TV dramas impersonating him. ‘I’m a cult,’ he used to scream, ‘a cult, d’you hear?’ eyes narrowed, nostrils flaring. Well, yes, he sort of is. Open verdict recorded on Williams". The Guardian. London. 17 June 1988. Dr John Elliott, deputy coroner for inner north London said: "The cause of death was a barbiturate overdose. Where Mr Williams would have got these from we would not be able to establish. There is no indication given as to why he should have taken this overdose and therefore I record an open verdict." Their relationship was so close that it was really Kenneth's only long-lasting love affair – he adored Tom, and admired his education, but they were never physically intimate," says Stevens. "But as a threesome they partied, dined, promenaded, and raved it up in Tangier." Known as the Babes in the Woods, Waine and Dennis became friends with Williams after Waine, an Oxford undergraduate, sent him an amusing fan letter. Together with Williams's beloved mother, Louie, the couple became a vital support system, attending all the star's theatre and television performances and now and then unsuccessfully tempting him with other potential boyfriends, including rough labourers and squaddies which provoked an angry response. On one of many evenings at Orton's home, Waine also recalls Williams's fury when the playwright revealed that he had spiked Williams's food with hashish.

Rampton, James (8 March 2006). "Michael Sheen carries off the life of Kenneth Williams". The Independent. Archived from the original on 23 February 2020 . Retrieved 23 February 2020.

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Freeland, Michael (1993). Kenneth Williams: A Biography. Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd. ISBN 978-0297812258. 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. Williams, a trained engraver, worked as a map-maker during the war and listed calligraphy among his hobbies in Who's Who, but his astonishing skill has confounded even Nicolas Barker, a former handwriting expert at the British Museum, who has looked at the diaries.

Thames TV (14 March 1974). "Kenneth Williams interview Good Afternoon 1974". YouTube . Retrieved 25 February 2023. Kenneth Charles Williams was born on 22 February 1926 in Bingfield Street, Kings Cross, London. [3] His parents were Charles George Williams, who managed a hairdressers in the Kings Cross area, and Louisa Alexandra ( née Morgan), who worked in the salon. Charles was a Methodist who had "a hatred of loose morals and effeminacy", according to Barry Took, Williams's biographer. Charles thought the theatre immoral and effeminate, although his son aspired to be involved in the profession from an early age. [4] Between 1935 and 1956, Williams lived with his parents in a flat above his father's barber shop at 57 Marchmont Street, Bloomsbury. Williams had a half-sister, Alice Patricia "Pat", born in 1923 before his mother had met Charles and three years before Kenneth was born. [5] Thorpe, Vanessa (9 October 2010). "Kenneth Williams: secret loves behind the life of a tormented man". The Guardian . Retrieved 28 June 2014. Kenneth Williams: The greatest diarist since Pepys?". The Daily Telegraph. 6 December 2015. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022 . Retrieved 28 June 2017. Written by journalist Christopher Stevens, the new book - Born Brilliant: The Life Of Kenneth Williams - is the first authorised biography of the star, and the first to be allowed full access to the actor's estate, including five million words of diaries and many hundreds of letters. With such unprecedented access to authoritative material on Williams, the book is set to make a number of new claims.

One airmail letter sent to Italy by a depressed Williams after he dropped out of a holiday with them is typically revealing: "Living with someone always means a denial of self in SOME way and I suppose I have always known it was something I couldn't accomplish. So I've always stayed on the sidelines. Getting the pleasure vicariously. It's not wholly satisfactory, but then of course no lives are, and you know what I think about indiscriminate sex and promiscuous trade. I think it's the beginning of a long, long road to despair." He was ready to lend tacit support to the Campaign for Homosexual Equality - he told me he had been to a couple of their meetings - but he wasn’t interested in ‘gay rights’, just ‘the allieviation of suffering’. ‘The sex urge is just an animal instinct,’ he used to say, ‘the bit left over in us from the apes. It is the human heart we should be concerned with, and its intense vulnerability.’ Archif ITV Cymru Wales LlGC ITV Cymru Wales Archive NLW. "Filming Carry On Up The Khyber, Snowdonia, 1968". Youtube . Retrieved 25 February 2023. Putting one up for Kenneth Williams". Heritage Calling. 22 February 2014. Archived from the original on 23 April 2018 . Retrieved 28 June 2017. I’ll put you in my diary!’ comedian Kenneth Williams was known to threaten on occasion, although tantalisingly he kept the journal to himself during his lifetime. Here at last, in one spellbinding volume, are four million words of it.