Question: English actor appears in many films from what franchise consisting of a sequence of 31 low-budget British comedy motion pictures (1958–92), four Christmas specials, a television series of thirteen episodes, and three West End and provincial stage plays?

The "Carry On" series is a long-running British sequence of comedy films, stage shows and television programmes produced between 1958 and 1992.  Distributed by Anglo-Amalgamated from 1958 to 1966, and the Rank Organisation from 1967 to 1978, the films were all made at Pinewood Studios.  The series' humour relied largely on innuendo and double entendre.  There were thirty-one films, three Christmas specials, one television series of thirteen episodes, and three West End and provincial stage plays, all made on time and to a strict budget. <SEP>  He is known for appearing in a number of "Carry On films", especially "Carry On Screaming! Tom Clegg (1915 – 1996) was an English actor, who had a number of small roles in film and television during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. ", where he played the role of Oddbod. <SEP>  The films' humour was in the British comic tradition of the music hall and bawdy seaside postcards. Producer Peter Rogers and director Gerald Thomas drew on a regular group of actors, the Carry On team, that included Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Kenneth Connor, Peter Butterworth, Hattie Jacques, Terry Scott, Bernard Bresslaw, Barbara Windsor, Jack Douglas, and Jim Dale. The Carry On franchise primarily consists of a sequence of 31 low-budget British comedy motion pictures (1958–92), four Christmas specials, a television series of thirteen episodes, and three West End and provincial stage plays. <SEP> Billy Boyle is an Irish actor on British film, television and stage.  He is a veteran of the West End stage having played leading roles in over 15 hit shows.  In his first West End musical "Maggie May" he was nominated as best newcomer.  Gower Champion then chose him to play Barnaby in "Hello Dolly" at The Theatre Royal Drury Lane.  He appeared in "Canterbury Tales" at the Phoenix Theatre as The Clerk of Oxford.  Harold Hobson, The Times critic said, "He was a breath of fresh air in the West-End".  He then went on to play leading roles in "No Sex Please, We're British", "Billy", "What's a Nice Country", "The Rivals", "Love, Lust, & Marriage", "Some Like it Hot", Disney's "Beauty and the Beast", and in the original cast of "Dirty Dancing.  Lately he has appeared as Grandpa George" and Grandpa Joe in Charlie and The Chocolate Factory at Drury Lane.  In 2016 he was Major Bouvier and Norman Vincent Peale in the smash hit Grey Gardens.  He followed this playing Arvide in Guys and Dolls at the Phoenix Theatre in the West End.He has had his own very successful television series in Ireland "It's Billy Boyle" as well as leading roles in "Trail of Guilt", the award-winning "The Grass Arena", "The Bretts", as well as many guest appearances in EastEnders, The Professionals, Coronation Street, Father Ted etc.  In the late 1970s, Boyle was cast as 'Ronald McDonald' in the European TV commercials and in all print media for the fast food chain McDonald's.  He was the last 'straight man' to Basil Brush on BBC1's "The Basil Brush Show" and later presented a programme, Dance Crazy for ITV, on the history of dance with Lesley Judd.  Lately he has been seen in Dirk Gently, for BBC Four and Lead Balloon.  His many films include Stanley Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon", "Groupie Girl", "Side by Side", "Shergar", "Wild Geese II", "The Scarlet and the Black", "Round Ireland with a Fridge" and A United Kingdom.