[…] ever done in my entire life. I was in the school play. And believe it or not, I played Juliet, in Romeo and Juliet. That's my only claim to being an actor. Roy Fowler 28:15 Trade union aside , I'm sure. Ronald Neame 28:16 Yes Now at the en[…]
[…] Well it'll come back to you in a moment.Tilly Day: He was a famous... famous... And I met Lawrence Anderson, he was a famous Shakespearean actor, and he was Mickey Anderson's father.Sidney Cole: Did you perform in any of these films?Tilly Day: Oh yes, I always used to.Sidney Col[…]
[…] And I met Lawrence Anderson, he was a famous Shakespearean actor, and he was Mickey Anderson's father. Sidney Cole: Did […]
[…]r in the colour sequences, that he handed it over to me to direct those sequences. And when I say direct, I mean rehearse them and direct it with the actors and then he put the cameras on it. But I had all that responsibility in those days, and I was so fascinated by the editing, that I used to spen[…]
[…]central loading room? Well, that was in those days I've been Shepherds Bush usually had about five production six production guy. It was like a film factory really the central low room. So it consisted of a background on the front room. And in the front room, you loaded the magazines 1000 foot magaz[…]
[…] in Shanghai, Dicky Leeman entered the film industry as child actor before developing into an assistant director at various studios […]
[…]t, a cartoon called out of the inkwell in which was a little amusing thing where a character jumped out to the income performed and so on. I remember actors like William S. Hart, Pauline Frederick, Charlie Chaplin, of course, a wonderful French comedian called Larry Seaman, Fatty Arbuckle. And even […]
[…]ey Giesler: What were the cinemas like, and how much did you have to pay to get in?Dicky Leeman: Well I can remember, at a later period when I was an actor, the Gaumont-British up in Kilburn - because I lived in Golders Green - if it was a very wet day, I would go round the agents looking for a job,[…]
[…]ich teeth I made, you’ll be gummed [Laughter] - it was very weird, but quite fun, you know, and I did lots of holiday jobs, and all sorts of things, factories, and things like that, shops, and then … so I took … ended up with two degrees, one from the poly which was a sort of external BSE, and then […]
[…]o Venice the following year, had Christmas ‘50, ‘49 in Venice, on another film called Shadow Of The Eagle, which we did, it was, we did, Italian actors and English actors, we swapped over, you know. Each time a scene we did them twice and those sort of things.Was it bilingual?Yes.Y eah.Er...Do […]
