[…]tchmaker. I think he was pitched forked into that by his mother because he wasn't, he didn't have his heart in watchmaking he was really a frustrated actor, which, of course, is where I get my various proclivities from, I think. He somehow got to know my mother and unfortunately got her pregnant and[…]
[…]different films that were being made at that time.The hours were incredibly long. There was no limit to the hours one worked and if there had been a factory inspector I am sure they would have been jailed for making not only me – I was just one of several sixteen year olds or thereabouts working inc[…]
[…]s. I took a lot of still stuff in the imaginary line. I also, which I paralleled with a visit to the marine Chandon champagne. I have to call it the factory, because they produce so much stuff, but their underground network of subterranean passages was very, very similar to the and of much more use,[…]
[…]'The First Mrs. Fraser' which Sinclair Hill directed, but not for Stolls, at the Wembley Studios and I went there as a floor assistant. It starred an actor who was as famous in his day as Olivier, Henry Ainley, and he had a drink problem. Not that he drank a lot but he had a low toleration of alchoh[…]
[…] I went there as a floor assistant. It starred an actor who was as famous in his day as Olivier, […]
[…]al or stage ambitions, how were they progressing?[0:19:46]DS: My stage ambitions were still very much that I just wanted to go on the stage and be an actor and be a singer and dancer. And so I really, I was just pushing along being in everything I could be in, either locally or dancing classes […]
[…] In Lime Grove – old Lime Grove. I can still smell it – that wonderful smell it had, yes? Extraordinary.There were a group, a group of good young boy actors in those days you know, and we were all very competitive. The one who was probably the most formidable, Jeremy Spenser, he was always getting t[…]
[…]my editor checked on that. Because I got it all muddled up, you know.Right.15I got the two brothers muddled up.Yes, well that's right, Pierre was the actor.That's right.And his father was the...I got them muddled up and I thought...Great, great producer.Pierre was producing, so I got them muddled up[…]
[…]What a damn good idea!" Because if I went into sound, I would be following my inclinations and, of course, I had been quite an enthusiastic schoolboy actor and things like that. I was interested in the artistic side of things, perhaps, and I thought, "Well films sound like a marvellous idea." So tha[…]
[…] brothers muddled up. Yes, well that's right, Pierre was the actor. That's right. And his father was the... I got […]
