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Barbara Ann Deeks, (born 6 August 1937) better known by her stage name Barbara Windsor, is an English actress. Her best known roles are in the Carry On films and as Peggy Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.
Born in Shoreditch, London in 1937, Windsor was the only child of John Deeks, a costermonger, and his wife, formerly Rose Ellis, a dressmaker. Windsor is of English and Irish ancestry. She passed her 11-plus exams with the highest marks in North London, and won a place at Our Lady’s Convent in Stamford Hill. Her mother paid for her to have elocution lessons, and she trained at the Aida Foster School in Golders Green, making her stage debut at 13 and her West End debut in 1952 in the chorus of the musical Love From Judy.
Her first film role was in The Belles of St Trinian's in 1954. She joined Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, coming to prominence in their stage production Fings Ain't Wot They Used to Be and Littlewood's film Sparrers Can't Sing in 1963, achieving a BAFTA nomination for Best British Film Actress. She also appeared in the 1964 film comedy Crooks in Cloisters, the 1968 film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and in the sitcoms The Rag Trade and Wild, Wild Women. In 1980, Windsor appeared as "Saucy Nancy" in the second series of Worzel Gummidge.
Piers Morgan's Life Stories: Barbara Windsor *PART 1*
Piers Morgan's Life Stories: Barbara Windsor *PART 2*
Piers Morgan's Life Stories: Barbara Windsor *PART 5*
Barbara Windsor Interview || This Morning || 19th September 2013
Barbara Windsor's Message To People Who Don't Wear Poppies
Kenneth Williams Interviews Barbara Windsor
Carry On Doctor with Barbara Windsor
EastEnders cast and crew hail Dame Barbara Windsor
Liquid Dubstep Dance | JCode | Barbara Windsor
Comedy Roast Barbara Windsor clips
Mrs Merton - Carry On star Barbara Windsor interview (1995)
Lily Savage - Barbara Windsor - Cilla Black - GYPSY
Barbara Windsor And Lacey Turner On The Poppy Appeal | Good Morning Britain
Comedy | Roast Barbara Windsor Funny
Actors: Eamonn Holmes (actor), Liz Smith (actress), Vanessa Feltz (actress), Mackenzie Crook (actor), Harry Hill (actor), Vanessa Feltz (actress), Les Dennis (actor), Les Dennis (actor), Les Dennis (actor), Tony Blackburn (actor), Les Dennis (actor), Mackenzie Crook (actor), Les Dennis (actor), Paul Hillier (miscellaneous crew), Henry Normal (producer),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Peter Wight (actor), Nicholas Parsons (actor), Terry Wogan (actor), Kenneth Williams (writer), Kenneth Williams (actor), Michael Sheen (actor), Michael Parkinson (actor), Ron Cook (actor), Richard Fell (producer), Martin Trenaman (actor), Penny Dyer (miscellaneous crew), Guy Henry (actor), Stephen O'Connell (editor), Roy Holder (actor), Shaughan Seymour (actor),
Plot: Finicky,hygiene-obsessed comic actor Kenneth Williams,living in a flat block with mutually adoring mother Louie,looks back on his life. At loggerheads with his homophobic father over his career Kenny fulfils his dream of becoming a classical actor but is spun off into comedy,allowing full rein to his crowd-pleasing array of funny voices. A compulsive,often selfish performer off-screen,he becomes a national treasure following the radio show 'Round the Horne' and the successful series of film farces 'Carry On'... though he is disdainful of the latter,given that he once trod the boards with Orson Welles. Privately he is a tormented closet gay,sickened by his sexuality,unlike his friend,promiscuous playwright Joe Orton,and desperately asks his 'Carry On' co-star Joan Sims for a show marriage,which she refuses. Ultimately Louie's death,his own hypochondria,a down turn in work and a sense of his own isolation will result in a fatal encounter with a bottle of tablets in 1988.
Keywords: camp, carry-on, celibacy, diary, film-premiere, flasher, homosexuality, ill-health, male-full-frontal-nudity, male-nudityActors: George Faber (producer), Barbara Windsor (actress), Barrington Pheloung (composer), Susanna Lenton (miscellaneous crew), Alistair McGowan (actor), Barbara Windsor (miscellaneous crew), Windsor Davies (actor), Alan Cox (actor), Steve Speirs (actor), Geoffrey Hutchings (actor), Maria Charles (actress), Charles Pattinson (producer), Adam Godley (actor), Tony Clarkson (miscellaneous crew), Hugh Walters (actor),
Genres: Drama, Romance,Actors: Graham Chapman (actor), John Cleese (actor), John Cleese (actor), John Cleese (actor), John Cleese (actor), John Cleese (actor), Phil Collins (actor), Ronnie Corbett (actor), John Cleese (actor), David Frost (actor), Terry Gilliam (actor), Terry Gilliam (actor), Terry Gilliam (actor), Terry Gilliam (actor), Terry Gilliam (actor),
Plot: Host Eddie Izzard links together interviews with former Python members and other famous comedians to tell the story of one the most famous comedy troupes of the 20th century. Includes rare clips, including the seldom seen "German episodes."
Keywords: comedy-troupe, monty-python, number-in-title, sketch-comedy