Donald Wilson

[…]g picture here. No, no, no production managers most. So the assistant director got in at seven in the morning, into the studio. He then made sure the actors or the actors haven't gone on the floor to make sure the studio was still still there and the ones you're wanting, they're still there. He then[…]

Charles Crichton

[…]ne was waiting to be called up. Then Cavalcanti wanted me to go and cut a little film called Young Veteran at Ealing and apparently my work was satisfactory because they wanted me to go on and on and so I became a reserved occupation and I stayed at EalingSC: If I remember rightly you had to be 30 a[…]

Jack Hildyard

[…]sp;6:58  as an extra.Unknown Speaker  7:00  So really, my first introduction to the industry was asUnknown Speaker  7:08  an actor. That's what I was doing,Unknown Speaker  7:14  that only for one day and the next day I started in the camera department.Unknown Spea[…]

Dallas Bower

[…] the box and the mic with cable up on a gantry rail and hang it. That was the only possible way of placing the mic properly above the cast, above the actors. And it gave it gave rise to the most difficulties in getting really good setups. And at the same time working cooperatively in as much as givi[…]

Bryan Langley

[…]don't really remember, but it did have some blind spots and this was the normal way of shooting. Jack Cox once told me when I was assisting that actors who had blue eyes - and he mentioned Brian Aherne - they had terrible problems being photographed on ordinary and ortho stock because the blue […]

ARMSTRONG, Moira BECTU copy

[…] you presumably a general sympathy with the lot of the actor? Oh yes, absolutely.[Laughter] And also the thing was very […]

HP0323 Eileen Diss – Transcript

[…] back to the studio, it was a good deal !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!9!Paul!WhitsunG!Jones!(1923G1974)!was!a!British!character! actor,!he!was!in!television!programmes!including!The$Avengers!and!Doctor$Who.$10!Barry!Letts!(1925G2009)!was!a!British!actor,!writer!and!producer!best!known!for!his!work!on!Doctor$Who$!as!producer!and!director.!!11!Phyllis!Calvert!(1915G2002)!was!a!British!actress,!who!acted!in!over!forty!films!during!her!career.!!! of fun. Then I did get to do drama, […]

billywilliamsbectu-tape2

[…] star now. But in those days he was a British actor. And he is just lovely and easy to work […]

Charles Picken

[…]back of the stalls to savour the last half hour of the set. As the group started to work up to the finale we spotted one of their members head off to actor’s stage left. There was only one reason for going there and that was the one thing we had insisted could not happen. With only an exchange of lo[…]

Michael Houldey

[…]st in me. And that was brand Forbes, who at that time was a leading member of leader, I should say, of a young British film Mater's. And he'd been an actor for a long, long time. So I thought maybe that's what I need to do to try and make it as an actor, and then move over into directing. So I wrote[…]
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