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Williams rarely revealed details of his private life although, in two half-hour documentary programmes in 1977 on BBC Radio London entitled Carry On Kenneth, he spoke openly to Owen Spencer-Thomas about his loneliness, despondency and sense of underachievement.
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Williams publicly insisted that he was celibate, but in private found his homosexuality difficult for him to deal with. Was good friends with gay playwright Joe Orton and his companion Kenneth Halliwell, and performed in Orton's play "Loot" in 1965. Halliwell later murdered Orton in 1967 in a fit of rage with a hammer.
- February 22, 1926
- April 15, 1988
From the early 1970s until his death, Williams was a regular TV show panelist and chat show guest. As is so often the case of actors who work in comedy, Williams’ private life was not...
Leben. Williams hatte seinen Durchbruch als Komiker 1954, als er neben Tony Hancock und Sidney James zu einem festen Mitglied der Radio-Comedy-Show Hancock’s Half Hour wurde, der weitere langlebige Radioprogramme wie Beyond Our Ken, Round the Horne (beide mit Kenneth Horne) sowie die BBC-Spiel-Show Just a Minute folgen sollten.
Childhood & Early Life. Kenneth Charles Williams was born on February 22, 1926 to Louisa Morgan and Charles Williams, a barber. Alice Patricia, his half sister was born to Louisa out of wedlock from a relation before marriage. He attended Lyulph Stanley School and trained to be a mapmaker's draughtsman.
An Enigmatic Personality in British Comedy. Williams was born on 22 February 1926 in Kings Cross, London, into a working-class family. His father, a cockney-speaking hairdresser manager, held a disdain for the theatrical arts, viewing it as immoral and effeminate.
