The Undiscovered Kenneth Williams Dec 2018
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 เม.ย. 2022
- Victor Lewis-Smith looks at the life and career of Kenneth Williams. Also features Stanley Baxter, Robert Chidell, Adam Brand and Robin Sebastian.
Features:
Stanley Baxter, Robert Chidell, Adam Brand, Robin Sebastian, Kenneth Williams and Victor Lewis-Smith
Writers:
Victor Lewis-Smith and Paul Sparks
A fascinating insight into the life of Kenneth Williams, one of the UK's best-loved comic performers who starred in more than 20 Carry On films. - บันเทิง
The Underground sketch and the poetry reading shortly afterwards reveal most about the complicated personality and outrageous talent of Kenneth Williams. No-one, no-one could have delivered that sketch more brilliantly; and then the utter sensitivity and vulnerability of his reaction to the poetry reading, which made me want to cry. It sums him up.
What a fantastic find - it shone light on the angles of Kenneth (who I've admired for years ) that were truly enlightening. I realise now hoe much of Kenneth's style I have absorbed especially when telling stories and jokes to friends - including his habit of sacrificing reputation for cheap laughs (usually scatological) ! The Swinburne reading was particularly moving. He was a Master and still not fully acknowledged for his skills - Thank you so much for uploading.
Me too Markie x
Gay
He sat next to Darth Vader on the tube.
That's one for the diary.
Very nicely made documentary. Thank you so much.
Wonderful, wonderful man, with a comic style and delivery
that has never been surpassed.
There is not a single day when he is not missed or loved.
I hope that he is resting in peace.❤
Legend, and totally irreplaceable..
Been fascinated with Kenneth for years, and have seen and read most material available regarding his life and work but this one had past me by until tonight. Some wonderful footage and the "underground" sketch was completely new to me... what a performance.... but such a tortured soul... feeling quite wistful now. Thank you for the post.
wonderful man, bless is soul.
Bless him
Interesting and fun doco. Thanks!
This is an absolute gem, thank you so much for the upload.
Loved him since I was a young Queen !
He was staggeringly well educated. How he had the time to read and absorb as much as he did amazes me.
He wasn't educated at all. He was well read, he wasn't very bright, he just gave the impression he had intelligence.
@@mikejohnson2638 wrong people born with high intelligence in low education families emulate people with higher education , there is actually nothing particularly startling about Kenneth Williams, probably find at least one of his parents was quite smart as well
@@mikejohnson2638 in short he had high IQ due his genes
You're confused, he was an autodidact.
@@adoculos4521 I didn't say he wasn't self educated
Wonderful - done very much in the spirit of KW
J'adore Kenneth Williams💙
Thank you for this great upload.
So good...thank you for this.
Very nicely done, Thank you!
Fantabulousa X Love him X
Markie me too x
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Performer extraordinaire. Pity he suffered frm depression. .
I started watching stuff about Kenneth earlier today, 15th April. And I'm still watching him now it's past midnight and into the next day.
Only just realised it was the 35th anniversary of his death on the 15th.
Past your bed time,😊 dear.
@@martinholmes-ue9ko thanks love
Top draw stuff from the late great Victor Lewis Smith.
Bona dear. ❤❤
I loved the sixties for the safe haven that I lived in. It was a home for disabled children run by the Shaftesbury Society. The headmaster was a member of the Plymouth (Open) Brethren and so everything was Evangelical Protestant despite the fact our family were Catholics. The School accepted Catholic pupils but the staff had to be Evangelical Protestants. The headmaster was a wonderful man who was committed to doing the best for his pupils. The rest of the staff were good too. When I grew up I became a Traditionalist Catholic (SSPX) as I liked the fervour of my disabled home but I thought Catholicism was better.
Pardon?
A wonderful actor and comedian but I often wonder - especially after reading his diaries - if he was too sensitive not only for the theatre but for life. His moods could dip and rise with frightening speed and this must have been so difficult to live with. He could be so confident and then the next minute a wreck - this must have been hell to deal with throughout his life. I don't think we'll ever see another like him and I'll continue to enjoy his comedy - he was a genius!
Whoever it is who is attempting to emulate Kenneth's voice, sounds far more like Malcolm McClaren.
lol kenneth dancing in 1977 is a sight to behold
38.38 was very moving
unvergessen! RIP!
I loved it! Thank you for the upload. Fascinating character from The Carry Ons, and everything else (He would not have liked me saying that!).
I didn't know the British Library could do that!
And Kenneth had beautiful hair, from spun gold to silver gossamer. Broke my heart when the news came out that he had died.
hope is next life is better
35:45 Darth Vader aka The Green Cross Code Man sitting on Kenny's left!
The very opening tape section needs to be played on a transcription cassette player from Nakamichi, the bias and head azimuth can be adjusted to compensate for poor tape and head contact…..if you needed to know
Jesus.. it suddenly dawned on me that Alan Carr sounds exactly like him
Carr has no talent though.
What about the poisoning of his father, look it up.
He reminded his beloved mother Louie that he was taking her to the chiropodist in the morning so it couldn’t have been suicide.
That is supposing that the final suicidal act is always something that is pondered about, planned and then considered at length before its commital.... Kenneth was well known to have mulled the idea of suicide continually throughout his life, and even showed friends his "big bottle of pills" that he kept in his kitchen cupboard, but the actual "final curtain" can, and is certainly sometimes, an impulsive act, triggered by something that might seem inconsequential to a more stable mind... a veritable "straw that broke the camel's back".
His lifelong love/hate struggle with his sexuality.... His concerns about his career stuttering to a halt.... His anguish regarding his mother's diminshment and impending inevitable death leaving him alone in his twilight years... and his mutliple ailments that repeated investigations had not rooted out the cause.
His final dairy entry being a depressed account of a sullen evening watching dispiriting TV with his mother, only to return to his flat with his medical problems plaguing him "like they've never done before"...... Oh what's the bloody POINT !!! "
I'm a train conductor... always the same excuses
Homosexuality was not an imprisonable offence. Homosexual acts were.
I gave up watching at the reel to reel part , whoever had the brainwave to have "Music"playing while the tape is playing is a complete and utter fool , and totally ruined what promised to be a very entertaining show , thanks sound editor (for nothing)
It has the dead hand of Victor Lewis Smith in this whole production and of course he spoils it. One of the nastiest people in British media that has ever be known, a total and complete SHIT.
@@adoculos4521 Don't you like him then?
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 No one does. VLS was a nasty piece of work to the informed.
Funny how you say there won't be any repeated tropes and then go on to make every single one of them, repeatedly, and what's worse, atrociously
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Orton was totally over rated and only rated at all as he was gay
You knew him then? I agree he was over-rated but it wasn't to do with him being gay.
I don't think his work has aged well, but in the context of the time he was writing I think he truly seemed like a breath of fresh air. Maybe had the London stage been less up itself in the mid 60s Orton wouldn't have figured at all.
Unwatchable
Nothing with KW is wholly unwatchable.