Molly Weir
Family name: Weir
Work area/Craft/Role: Actor
Industry: Film, Radio, TV
Company: BBC
Interview date(s): 21 July 1999
Interviewer(s): Paul Lecker, Manny Yospa
Production Media: audio
behp0457-molly-weir-summary
[These are Manny Yospa’s notes, which are mostly names and references that are mentioned in the interview]
SIDE ONE
Born Glasgow; child artist; shorthand; Miss McKenzie; Co-operative. Father died when she was young, scholarship at 14. Shorthand, 300 words a minute [?]; first broadcast: Educating Archie; Jack Howes; Empire Exhibition; Carroll Levis; London; The McFlannels; Gordon Jackson. In war. Effie Morris, Helen Price; Aeolian Hall; ITMA [It’s That Man Again – radio comedy]; Tommy Handley; Ted Kavanagh; Tarty MacIntosh, Life with the Lyons. Tom Reynolds, Maggie, Rentaghost.
SIDE TWO
David Lean; Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; Carry on Regardless; Ronald Neame; Helena Gloag; Maggie Smith; Celia Johnson; Scrooge; Albert Finney; The Lyons in Paris; Commercial; Russel Hunter; Hands of the Ripper; Equity; Appeals Committee; Flash [TV commercials]; Writing.
SIDE THREE
Writing; Flowers of the Forest [poem].
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Married name = Mary Hamilton
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