BECTU History Project - Interview No. 58 [Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2002-09-20Interview Date: 1988-10-11Interviewer: Alan LawsonInterviewee: Gordon McCallumTape 1, Side 1 Alan Lawson : Now, Mac...when were you born?Gordon McCallum : May 26th 1919.Alan Lawson : And where was that?[…]
[…]ce again, I had to come in under the stones, which I did do. But then I had the very good fortune to meet Ken Gordon, whom I'm sure is well known for Act. And I managed to transfer to the under some clause, or rather, into the camera department. And then I started as an assistant with, first on my o[…]
[…] talk about it, well not officially anyway.Arthur Graham: You said you were treasurer for a year - what other positions, if any, have you held in the ACT.Tubby Englander: Well, after the war I was a shop steward at Basic, Basic Films. I was Basic Films' representative. And yes, that's about all beca[…]
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[…]e really. Anyway, I went along, and he was as he was on the screen – a simple man: talented but simple. If you really dissect his act it was a simple act. It was man who played the guitar [ukulele banjo? DS], and he’d sing what we’d call nowadays, not like Max Miller, risqué songs, suggestive songs […]
[…]ave me a scholarship, which paid for my total fees there for three years. But this, of course, was to be a teacher and my only ambition really was to act. However, I did the three years course and got an honours degree. But at the end of the course my luck changed because I joined an amateur society[…]
[…]lly went on and I got several jobs back in Islington Studio, it used to be called that but it was never in Islington, it was in Shoreditch in actual fact. And then I got married, and then my luck turned then, because I got a job over at Stoll's until they closed down as a matter of fact. They was kn[…]
[…]al Green. Manny Yospa: What were your parents? Geoff Conway: My father was in the navy - he'd been in the navy for 22 years as a matter of fact. My mother was just a housewife. Manny Yospa: You went to school in Bethnal Green? Geoff Conway: That's right. At the age of ten my fath[…]
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