A page from an autograph album signed by Kenneth Connor (1918 - 1993), the English actor who who rose to prominence with his appearances in the Carry On films. The son of a naval petty officer who organised concert parties, he first appeared on the stage at the age of two as an organ-grinder's monkey in one of his father's shows, and by 11 years old, he had his own act. During the Second World War, he served as an infantry gunner with the Middlesex Regiment but continued acting by touring Italy and the Middle East with the Stars in Battledress concert party and ENSA. After the war he returned to acting and in 1955 gained a small role in the film The Ladykillers (1955) as a taxi driver. In 1958, he was cast in the first Carry On film, Carry On Sergeant, and became one of the regular cast in the series, appearing in seventeen of the original thirty films and many of the associated television productions. Alongside Kenneth Williams and Eric Barker, Connor was one of only three actors to appear in both the first and last of the original sequence of Carry On films (Carry On Sergeant and Carry On Emmannuelle). In 1961, he starred with fellow Carry On stars Sid James and Esma Cannon in the comedy film What a Carve Up! and through the early 1960s he was one of the most prominent leading men in British comedy films. As well as What a Carve Up! and the Carry On films, other films he starred in during this period included Watch Your Stern (1960), Nearly a Nasty Accident (1961) and the Dentist films. At the end of his career he found new success as the Belgian undertaker, Monsieur Alfonse, in the popular BBC sitcom 'Allo 'Allo! (1984–1992)