[…]ak that way somehow. Then in my recent years- I worked in Dublin before the war. When I came back to England, it was wartime, and there were no Irish actors in London. I did so much work with Irish accents on radio, and it wasn’t (oddly enough) ‘til sometime after that, that I got a lot of Scottish […]
[…]long time to get there. Osmond Borradaile was the cameraman. Geoffrery Boothby was the director. That was the whole unit. We didn't take sound or any actors. We went there to shoot all the battle scenes. They were big scale and to do a 10t of stuff with doubles. The people who went from this country[…]
[…] BIOGRAPHY: Charles Bennett was a British writer, director and sometime actor most famous for his work with Alfred Hitchcock. Originally […]
[…]urself. So I didn’t go to China and she also, she was a great friend of a man called Milton Rosmer and his wife Irene Rooke and they were very famous actors at the time with Miss Hornman’s touring company in Manchester and through Miss Eliot who taught me at school I got to know them. Milton w[…]
[…]every way. So, obviously she was a better teacher than I could have found anywhere else. That was all. At fourteen I gave up everything and became an actor. And that was it...Arnold Schwartzman : Oh, sorry, I must ask a question! What made you decide to go into film?Charles Bennett : I didn't decide[…]
[…]ie Dryhurst: No, no, no...Roy Fowler: Performers.Eddie Dryhurst: No, because most of the 'stars' as we would call them today were well-known West End actors like Henry Ainley and Milton Rosmer, Clive Brook - well Clive Brook became a film-star. And er, no they were mostly theatre people.Roy Fowler: […]
[…] knew I was going to be working with this famous actor so she'd done this little drawing addressed to him. […]
[…] of Germany. He was instrumental, he in fact he employed Renata Muller in a film. He was responsible indirectly for getting a number of Jewish German actors and actresses out of Germany by offering them contracts. Jonathan Balcon 29:35 Technicians too I believe. Jonathan Balcon[…]
[…]t of a nightmare.I don’t remember that one. Who was...It wasn’t very good. Joan Fontaine was in it and Louis... I’ve forgotten his name – French actor.Louis Jourdan?Yes, it was, that’s right. And it was my first location and it was pretty awful. The artdirector had a lot to say – Tom […]
[…] she no longer moves, so she’s just static and the actor – you weren’t allowed to take the trousers off […]
