 A mainstay of the 'Carry On' team for many years, Talbot Rothwell wrote some of the series' funniest screenplays. Producer Peter Rogers said of him, in 1992, that, unlike fellow-screenwriter Norman Hudis, he 'didn't write with heart at all; he was against all that. He used to write crazy gags... and marvellous one-liners' [and excruciating puns], and stayed almost until the end. After WW2 service, he worked as a playwright, wrote for the Crazy Gang and for radio comics including Terry-Thomas, and had considerable experience as a screenwriter before joining the 'Carry On' team. He also wrote for such TV series as Up Pompeii (BBC, 1969-70) and The Army Game (ITV, 1957). He was awarded an OBE in 1977. Brian McFarlane, Encyclopedia of British Film
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