[…]ight to the beginning of the war, I think we were the last play that closed in the West End.Roy Fowler: You were almost from the beginning a West End actor.Robert Beatty: I was. I regret that in some ways, I think it would have done me a lot of good to go into rep for 6 months or more.Because I alwa[…]
[…]nneth Griffith Side 1Colin Moffat 0:00 The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Kenneth Griffith, actor in feature films, producer and performer in television documentary programmes. Interviewer Colin Moffat 23rd of April 1990. Coli[…]
[…]: You really said that this is what what was called inter-class marriage originally and did this impinge continually in time and went on, this was a factor was it?Philip Donnellan: No.Colin Moffat: In how they behaved?Philip Donnellan: It may have been but I couldn't see the signs and it was never m[…]
[…]ay, no, let me see what you're going to do. You have to have a very definite idea, because so much money is at stake, so many people involved and the actors too, must have a support. They will fall apart in their work that they find as indecision, but they get carried away with the enthusiasm, and t[…]
[…] went in; 2 Robert Morley (1908 -1992) was an English actor known for films including Marie Antoinette (1938) for which […]
[…] films. It was the first time I've actually ever done anything creative myself. I thought well we've got a society we've got people we've got amateur actors we've got the friends we've got this that and the other. And my father again always coming to the rescue here was willing to buy me a camera so[…]
[…]ms, he's even written a play, Old Movies which was done at the National. And he brings, his idea of what he would really like to do is bring American actors over to the national. He's done all the David Mamet plays at the National. It's America because he was brought up in the cinema in Paisley, tha[…]
[…] in British television, Joan Kemp-Welch began her career as an actor, working initially in the theatre and subsequently on screen. […]
[…]en I was shipped to the Far East, by this time as an architectural draughtsman, I trained for that at Chatham, I had a magic act and joined CSE as an actor and had one moment of doing magic. But it didn't go on for very long because I didn't like the way we were being treated and we had a very, very[…]
[…]lch: The one opposite the Arts Theatre now, which I think is Cranks orsomething like that, it used to be the ABC.Roy Fowler: So that was an actor's hang-out , was it?Joan Kemp-Welch: But of the theatres that I did, after The Gate, the ones that stand out in my memory was... I staged m[…]
