Carry On Doctor
Francis Bigger, a notorious charlatan who tours the country lecturing on the subject of mind over matter, slips off the platform in the middle of his performance and ends up in hospital under the care of Dr Tinkle. The hospital is about to enter a period of total chaos.
Director(s)
Gerald Thomas
Terence A. Clegg
Cast & crew
Brian Wilde
Man from Cox & Carter
Jane Murdoch
Nurse (uncredited)
Gertan Klauber
Wash Orderly
Jack Ross
Visitor (uncredited)
Guy Standeven
Orderly (uncredited)
Gordon Rollings
Night Porter
Dandy Nichols
Mrs. Roper
Peter Jones
Chaplain
Marianne Stone
Mother
Helen Ford
Nurse
Jill Goldston
Nurse (uncredited)
Pat Hagan
Patient (uncredited)
Lucy Griffiths
Miss Morris
Ernest Fennemore
Junior Doctor (uncredited)
George Spence
Patient (uncredited)
Joan Sims
Chloe Gibson
Kenneth Williams
Dr. Kenneth Tinkle
Walter Henry
Visitor (uncredited)
Hugh Elton
Visitor (uncredited)
Roy Lansford
Visitor (uncredited)
Peter Gilmore
Henry
Peter Butterworth
Mr. Smith
Frankie Howerd
Mr. Francis Bigger
Jennifer White
Nurse in Bath
Jim Dale
Dr. Jim Kilmore
Gerald Thomas
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Sidney James
Mr. Charlie Roper
Charles Hawtrey
Mr. Barron
Barbara Windsor
Trainee Nurse Sandra May
Bernard Bresslaw
Mr. Ken Biddle
Hattie Jacques
Lavinia, the Matron
Julian Holloway
Simmons
Dilys Laye
Mavis Winkle
Derek Francis
Sir Edmund Burke
Leslie Weeks
Porter (uncredited)
Philip Stewart
Man in Audience (uncredited)
James Ure
Man in Crowd (uncredited)
Gwendolyn Watts
Mrs. Barron
Harry Locke
Sam
Bart Allison
Granddad (uncredited)
Simon Cain
Tea Orderly (uncredited)
Alexandra Dane
Antenatal Instructor (uncredited)
Jay McGrath
Visitor (uncredited)
Valerie Van Ost
Nurse Parkin
Edith Raye
Visitor (uncredited)
Johnny Rossi
Patient (uncredited)
Anita Harris
Nurse Clarke
June Jago
Sister Hoggett
Deryck Guyler
Mr. Hardcastle
Patrick Allen
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Julian Orchard
Fred
Jean St. Clair
Mrs. Smith
Frances Baker
Woman in Audience (uncredited)
Valerie Cockx
Patient (uncredited)
Pat Coombs
Anxious Patient (uncredited)
Eden Fox
Outpatient (uncredited)
Stephen Garlick
Boy (uncredited)
Penelope Keith
Plain Nurse (uncredited)
Cheryl Molineaux
Women's Ward Nurse (uncredited)
Peggy Scott Sanders
Woman in Audience (uncredited)
Robin Scott
Patient (uncredited)
Laura Thurlow
Nurse (uncredited)
Terence A. Clegg
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Reviews
CinemaSerf
A largely overpowering Frankie Howerd heads the cast for this slightly revamped version of "Carry On Nurse" (1959) as the crooked preacher who ends up in hospital after a posterior altercation leaves him a bit bruised. When he gets to the hospital - where everything happens under the watchful gaze of the portrait of "Sir Lancelot Spratt" - he alights on "Roper" (Sid James) and "Barron" (Charles Hawtrey) and encounters the ruthless matron (Hattie Jacques). She resurrects her established partnership with Kenneth Williams' doctor - this time he's called "Tinkle" and the scene is now set for some fairly standard fayre of mischief and mayhem. Jim Dale features a little too frequently for me - I found his efforts just too busy and frenetic - as the bumbling "Dr. Kilmore" who is the apple in the eye of the nurses, especially "Miss Clarke" (Anita Harris) and so the seeds of romance are sewn. It's all a bit same old, same old, this comedy - but the last twenty minutes or so give them all a chance to shine as revenge is taken and Williams, in particular, gets a little more than he bargained for. It's quickly paced and there is plenty of innuendo but here I found the script a bit more akin to the traditional films - less smut and more fun. A power struggle with anaesthetics - what's not to like?
