Val Guest

[…]0-minute thing about this in a humorous way for Arthur Askey to do. I found out that eight other writers had been asked before me so I put on a great Academy Award act that I was furious, insulted that they'd come to me no 8 on the list, and said I will only do this if you accept it that I direct it[…]

Anne V Coates

[…] Anne V Coates Roy Fowler 3 92 Maybe. Because... Pressurised them? Maybe it was a release, a release from Mickey Balcon. Yes. The Academy as it was called. Yes. Mm. I had always assumed that it was some, chemical problem I suppose with Hamer. I suppose so. I don’t know. […]

Cedric Dawe

[…]g Maugham, I didn’t know he had an impediment in his speech for instance, but his great friend was Sir Gerald Kelly. Kelly was President of the Royal Academy at that time and I was very very interested and it was a hobby of mine at that time and I wanted to get back to oil painting myself. So I was […]

James Arthur Clark

[…]en thirty and be in London by about ten thirty and then I could spend the day at the movies and I used to come up at least once a month and go to the Academy of Studio One or wherever the more interesting films were and furthered my own education that way and also had got to know a few people in Lon[…]

Patrick (Paddy) Carey

[…]Oscars got the ticket and American or Oscar.Paddy Carey  32:43  It was nominated for an Oscar. I don't think it got one. It got the British Academy Award. And I think it got others. But of course, I didn't get them. So I and I wasn't working for transport immediately after. So I wasn't wor[…]

Derek Threadgall

[…]SPEAKER: M7He was going to. He was going up to Colchester to a lecture by the late Dr. Roger Manville who was.SPEAKER: M5Chairman of the British Film Academy at the time.SPEAKER: M6And Lou said to me I can't go because I got a ticket. He said Would you like to go in my place. I said Yeah. Because I […]

Jonathan Balcon

[…]his own advantage.  Jonathan Balcon  2:09  Yeah.  Roy Fowler  2:11  How about Mr Balcon's Academy for Young English?  Jonathan Balcon  2:14  Young Gentleman. Roy Fowler  2:15  Young Gen[…]

Richard Marden

[…]far three is a he wasn't really a lead experience. I mean, that whenRichard Marden  36:45  he only he was Professor B's on Sam's  Film Academy, of course. He's only made two pictures and actually dealing Well, the only person I think that one could say that well, time felt. But also f[…]

Michael Clarke

[…]lan Pendry who now I think is a historian. His wife, Cynthia Pendry was the editor of the only shell film that ever won. What was then a British Film Academy Award film called The threat in the water, which I wrote some produced Richard Begum directedJohn Legard  6:47  name I haven't heard[…]

Geoff Labram

[…] track. And the work they did on that led to the statements which they made thereafter. And they've repeated many times since, which was that the the academy curve, which we had bowed down to for so long, which is defined in terms of the electrical overall frequency response that took effect over th[…]
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