Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!

I loved every second of this film! Definitely a hard man to imitate, it actually felt like I was watching Kenneth himself.

Everyone liked Kenneth Williams thanks to the Carry On movies but very few would had held on to that opinion if they really knew the man.Fellow actors thought he was difficult to work with.

Everyone liked Kenneth Williams thanks to the Carry On movies but very few would had held on to that opinion if they really knew the man.Fellow actors thought he was difficult to work with.

I had seen tiny bits of this programme a couple of times, and I recognised the actor who played Tony Blair in The Queen, so I thought I might as well give it a go. It is all about the life of Carry On actor Kenneth Williams (Michael Sheen), based on his diaries.

To me, Kenneth Williams was a comic genius. I grew up on the Carry on franchise, and the performances of Williams always were one of the main reasons why I am so fond of them.

STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning Kenneth Williams was arguably the most iconic star of the Carry On films, with his distinctive campy mannerisms, voice and facial expressions, along with a stuffy, uptight on screen persona that seemed to accompany it. But while he basically played himself on screen to great effect, behind the scenes he lived a solitary, troubled existence, as his diaries, which this TV film is based on, bared fruit to, leading up to his (fairly) early death at the age of 62.

Michael Sheen valiantly gives life to a British icon of the 20th Century. Kenneth Williams was the personification of a walking breathing work of art.

Based on material appearing in the KENNETH WILLIAMD DIARIES, FANTABULOSA! offsets Michael Sheen the opportunity to give a campy performance of the kind Williams would use if he were entertaining people.

A lot of my childhood was spent lying in front of the wireless listening to Round the Horne or Hancock's Half Hour or watching Carry On films. Probably the most famous line in comedy "Infamy!