[…] And it was my father who took Korda to see his first movie- there's a cafe called the New Yorker in Budapest which was where all the journalists and actors and writers met and they owner of that cafe got a projector and put up a sheet and he had these film shows. And my father took Alex to see it a[…]
[…]. I mean even in Birmingham when they were having the strikes because of the Indian labour beingbrought in, even then I had no... I was working in a factory and there was no sort of illwill on that either, from the workers or the management. I didn’t expect it from themanagement, they knew. Sor[…]
[…] job with us. And I said certainly, And I was glad to be in a permanent job because fluctuating between one bad German script to another wasn't satisfactory.Norman Swallow: What year was it you first went to the BBCRudi Cartier: 1952. No, it was 1953, because the first production was in 1952, and th[…]
[…]l, of course, my stage background - well, it wasn't a background - my stage occupation directly lead to this, because I soon determined that to be an actor was far too precarious, and, besides, I was too fond of bossing other people around to go on for too long doing what I was told by other people.[…]
[…], the United Nations was further out, it wasn't in New York, it was on the outskirts of New York and a friend of mine who was an actress, she knew an actor, none of them were very well known actors, but she knew an actor, they used to go travelling round, a travelling actor. And she said he would be[…]
[…]'s amazing how far you can go with walkie-talkies, what a range modern walkie-talkies have.RP: Yes. And also with the throat mikes too. You can shoot actors far away and get good sound on it. Recently [unintelligible] and now you've got computers and things which the accountants use which [unintelli[…]
[…]it now but I don't think they could then.DB. So that's where you see his genius lying - through the camera, not necessarily the way he controlled the actors... Because he's got this reputation of being quite brutal with actors, hasn't he?PS. I never saw any of it in this country. I think because he […]
[…] church socials and the cakes and cotton as well. Yes, she was, oh, kindness itself.Roy Fowler 10:41 But did she contribute any positive factors? Do you think to your career?Speaker 1 10:48 Not until, I think Roy, not until she saw my name on the screen, because they were Bes[…]
[…] must say in his favour, but he wasquite a queen. He used to use Max Factor No. 24. It was thewrong colour for him and made him look like an Indi[…]