Creator / Brian Oulton

"The cosiest job I ever had was in Carry On Nurse. I used to roll out of bed in my own home in the morning, into a car to take me to Pinewood, onto the film set and into another bed, and finally out of that bed and into my own bed again."

Brian Oulton, (11 February 1908 — 13 April 1992), was a British character actor.

After a period at RADA, he started acting in the late '20s, playing leading roles in repertory theatre in Liverpool. Once World War II started, he left the theatre to serve in the British Army. Come the end of the war, he returned to acting in 1946, albeit now as a character actor.

He played many pompous characters on the big screen, such as Prescott in Last Holiday, Henry Bray in Carry On Nurse, and Master Snelgrove in Young Sherlock Holmes. Aside from Nurse, he appeared in three more Carry On films and one of the Carry On Christmas TV specials.

On the small screen, he never had any long-term roles. Still, he had many small roles, including Dr. Plevitt in Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), Dr. Griffin in four episodes of Doctor at Large, and Neil's dad in The Young Ones.

He married actress Peggy Thorpe-Bates in 1936 and the two were together until she died in 1989.

He died at the age of 84.

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Works on TV Tropes he appeared in:

Film

• Miranda (1948) — Manell
• The Million Pound Note (1954) — Lloyd
• Doctor in the House (1954) — Medical Equipment Salesman
• The Deep Blue Sea (1955) — Drunk
• Carry On Nurse (1959) — Henry Bray
• The 39 Steps (1959) — Mr. Pringle
• The Devil's Disciple (1959) — Mr. Brudenell
• Carry On Constable (1960) — Department Store Manager
• No Kidding (1960) — Vanilla's Father, the Vicar
• Raising the Wind (1961) — Concert Agent
• These Are the Damned (1962) — Mr. Dingle
• Carry On Cleo (1964) — Brutus
• Carry On Camping (1969) — Mr. Short
• On the Buses (1971) — Manager
• Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) — Master Snelgrove

Series

• The Adventures of Robin Hood, episode "Quickness of the Hand" (1958) — Sir John
• Hancock's Half Hour, 5 episodes:
  • "The Cruise" (1959) — Ship's Doctor
  • "The Emigrant" (1960) — Australian Immigration Official
  • "The Ladies' Man" (1960) — Gregory Chandler
  • "The East Cheam Centenary" (1960) — Head of BBC Outside Broadcasts
  • "The Bowmans" (1961) — Actor Playing "Dan Bowman"
• The Army Game, episode "The Artist" (1960) — Major Hutchins
• Steptoe and Son, episode "The Piano" (1962) — Piano Owner
• The Saint, episode "The Fellow Traveller" (1963) — Henry Matson
• The Avengers, 2 episodes:
  • "The Charmers" (1964) — Mr. Edgar
  • "Love All" (1969) — Tait
• Coronation Street, 1 episode (1964) — Frank Quayle
• Department S, episode "A Cellar Full of Silence" (1969) — Dr. Davis
• Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), episode "Never Trust a Ghost" (1969) — Dr. Plevitt
• Doctor at Large, 4 episodes^{show list} "No Ill Feeling!", "Let's Start at the Beginning", "It's All in the Mind", "Cynthia Darling" (1971) — Dr. Griffin
• Jason King, episode "An Author in Search of Two Characters" (1972) — Griffin
• Carry On Christmas, episode Carry On Stuffing (1972) — Oriental Orator
• Brideshead Revisited, episode "Orphans of the Storm" (1981) — Man from the Tate
• The Cleopatras, episode "145 BC" (1983) — Aristarchus
• The Young Ones, episode "Sick" (1984) — Mr. Pye

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