Kenneth Williams
Born | February 22, 1926 |
Hometown | Islington, United Kingdom |
Height | 5'8" (1.73m) |
Parents | Louisa Williams , Charles Williams |
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Sex, swords and togas: TV’s eternal (and dodgy) fascination with ancient Rome
Early on in Domina, Sky’s new drama about the life of the Roman Empress Livia Drusilla, there is a scene in which the 15-year-old Livia finds the future Emperor Augustus trying to force himself on her. She stops him by grabbing hold of his, ahem, imperial jewels – and the implication is that her hand will metaphorically remain there once she has married him, keeping the first ruler of the world’s greatest empire under her vice-like control. As always in dramas of Imperial Rome, sex and politics
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'Could you marry me?': how Kenneth Williams fell for Barbara Windsor
It was no surprise that the first wave of obituaries for Dame Barbara Windsor, who died this week at 83 following a six-year struggle with Alzheimer’s, featured images of scenes she’d shared with Kenneth Williams. They went together like boiled beef and carrots, and were no less London-flavoured than Harry Champion’s song of that name. Williams could hide it well – most of us think of him first in his posh mode – but his birthplace in Barnsbury, Islington was a walkable distance from Barbara’s f
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