"I only ever had one or two days' work on those very funny films. Going into a long-running team show is a frightening experience and so it was that each time I was lucky enough to be invited to play in a Carry On, I always arrived at the studio with a certain amount of trepidation."
Victor Jack Maddern, (16 March 1928 — 22 June 1993), was a British actor.
He trained at the RADA after his time serving in World War II. His first screen appearance came in Seven Days to Noon as a soldier tasked to shoot a scientist.
For the rest of his career, Maddern was a familiar face in films and on TV. He was often Typecast as military men, most frequently as a sergeant.
On the side he ran a script printing business and opened a school for public speaking in 1991.
He died of a brain tumour at the age of 65.
Works on TV Tropes he appeared in:
Film
- Sailor of the King (1953) — Signalman Willy "Misery" Earnshaw
- Saint Joan (1957) — English Soldier
- Carve Her Name with Pride (1958) — Parachute Training Instructor (Uncredited Role)
- Dunkirk (1958) — Merchant Seaman
- Please Turn Over (1959) — Smithy
- Sink the Bismarck! (1960) — Able Seaman
- Carry On Constable (1960) — Detective Sergeant Liddell, CID
- Watch Your Stern (1960) — Sailor Fishing for Bicycle
- Exodus (1960) — Sergeant
- Carry On Regardless (1961) — Sinister Passenger
- Raising the Wind (1961) — Removal Man
- The Longest Day (1962) — Camp Cook (Uncredited Role)
- Carry On Spying (1964) — Milchmann
- Carry On Cleo (1964) — Sergeant Major
- Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965) — Taxi Driver
- Circus of Fear (1966) — Mason
- The Lost Continent (1968) — Mate
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) — Junkman
- The Magic Christian (1969) — Hot Dog Vender
- Cromwell (1970) — Executioner (Uncredited Role)
- Steptoe and Son (1972) — Chauffeur
- Carry On Emmannuelle (1978) — Man in Launderette
- Freddie as F.R.O.7 (1992) — Old Gentleman Raven
Series
- The Adventures of Robin Hood, episode "The Charm Pedlar" (1960) — Hugo
- Bonanza, episode "A Passion for Justice" (1963) — Dan Stoker
- Perry Mason, episode "The Case of the Floating Stones" (1963) — Gilbert Tyrell
- The Avengers, episode "The Thirteenth Hole" (1966) — Jackson
- The Saint, 2 episodes:
- "The Fast Women" (1967) — Enrico Montesino
- "The Scales of Justice" (1968) — Jim Cowdry
- Dixon of Dock Green, 4 episodes:
- "The Witness" (1967) — Fred Hall
- "Obsession" (1969) — Jimmy Lester
- "Jig-Saw" (1971) — Forbes
- "It's a Gift" (1975) — Orrie Heppledene
- The Prisoner, episode "Hammer Into Anvil" (1967) — Bandmaster
- Doctor Who, 6-episode story "Fury from the Deep" (1968) — Robson
- Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), episode "A Sentimental Journey" (1970) — Detective Sergeant Watts
- Carry on Laughing!, 3 episodes:
- "Orgy and Bess" (1975) — Todd
- "The Nine Old Cobblers" (1975) — Charlie
- "Under the Round Table" (1975) — Sir Osis
- Miss Marple, episode "The Moving Finger Part 2" (1985) — Police Constable Johnson
- Screen Two, episode "Defrosting the Fridge" (1989) — Barney
- The Bill, episode "Addresses" (1990) — Mr. Grant
- Screen One, episode "Sweet Nothing" (1990) — Frankie
- EastEnders, 1 episode (1990) — Stanley
