Kenneth Williams: Born Brilliant: The Life of Kenneth Williams

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Playing mostly funny voice roles, Williams stayed in the series almost to the end, five years later.

The killer served most of his life sentence at HMP Parkhurst in the Isle of Wight, where he died of a heart attack aged 42 in 1990. This is the second book I've read (the first being his autobiography) and it certainly is a lot darker. How little things like that are given any more than minimal headspace in Williams’ private thoughts are testament to the importance of things other than that in his life.Broadmoor, a facility that houses criminals convicted of serious crimes, but that are considered to be mentally ill, is the oldest of its kind in England. The same themes of snide dismissals of fellow performers, bad scripts, personal illness (chief of which was undoubtedly hypochondria), holidays to Tangier or Tenerife, complaints about his living accommodation, worries about his mother (always referred to as Louie) and which restaurants he visited for his dinner all became immensely wearing and tedious. Journalist and author - I am the TV critic of the Daily Mail, with a column five days a week to review the previous night's television. Williams was born in Edgware, Middlesex, on 2 July 1931, to William Williams, a Welsh nonconformist, and his wife Alice (née Myles).

He often criticised Carry On films, his own performances and those of others, considering them beneath him. What is beyond doubt is that he died thinking his life had been a failure, despite having begun a new career as a memoirist.Set from the 1940s to the 1980s the diaries chart, the loves, hates, fears and often paranoid thoughts of Williams. Princess Anne beams as she officially opens equestrian college (and she can't resist making a fuss of the horses!