Bernard Bresslaw (1934 –1993) was an English comic actor,
best remembered as a member of the Carry
On team.
The Carry On
series primarily consists of 31 classic British comedy motion pictures
(1958–92), four Christmas specials, a television series of thirteen episodes,
and three West End and provincial stage plays. The films' humour was in the
British comic tradition of the music hall and bawdy seaside postcards.
Carry On Sergeant
(1958) was about a group of recruits doing National Service; its title, the command
commonly issued by army officers to their sergeants in the course of their
routine duties, was in keeping with its setting.
The film was sufficiently
successful to inspire a similar venture, again focusing on an established and
respected profession in Carry On Nurse.
When that too was successful, further forays with Carry On Teacher and Carry On Constable established the series.
This initial 'pattern' was broken with the fifth film in 1961, Carry On Regardless, but it still
followed a similar plot to that of many of the early films—a small group of
misfit newcomers to a job make comic mistakes, but come together to succeed in
the end.
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