[…]rs to proofread this and/or other interviews. If you want to help, please contact BEHP Secretary, sue.malden@btinternet.com. Ronald Neame Part 1 Roy Fowler 0:00 The copyright of the following recordings is vested in the ACTT History Project. Roy Fowler […]
THE ACTT HISTORY PROJECT – CEDRIC DAWE, ART DIRECTOR.INTERVIEWER: ROY FOWLER.The copyright of the following recording is vested with the BECTU History project. It is the 19th of November 1991. We are in Chartridge in Buckinghamshire at the home of Cedric Dawe, an Art Director whose career in the ind[…]
[…]ely no interests to me and I must say he never… he was very indulgent in that he never expected me to follow in any kind of family footsteps. He was part of a very large Victorian family I don’t know how many siblings he had but it was quite sizeable and it was all a bit like the French peasantry th[…]
[…] from them, that sort of thing. Anyhow, they said to me "Alright, what sort of job do you want?" and I said, "Well I'd like a job in a motion picture art department". "Oh yes" they said, "we have occasionally had inquiries from people like that". Anyhow, some months...was it?...Yes months afterwards[…]
[…]tal token dropped down. And you took the metal token you handed it to an attendant who took it and put it on a kind of string. And the curtains were parted and you went in, and I became so hooked on the cinema. In fact, I've always to jump forward. I've always thought that I've been enormously lucky[…]
[…] pancakes.” And I used to say “I bet you we get turkey before Christmas.” Of course, in the war it went down very big. Quite a big part really, for a young lad. [LAUGHTER]ALAN LAWSON: Did you go on and do any more acting after that?HARRY MILLER: Well, no. The only acting I ev[…]
[…] ever went into was Beaconsfield where there was a female Art Director, I think her name was Mary Brabham or something […]
[…] And my father was a mining engineer [pause] and 1:01 there was a colliery nearby my mother had been in early films. In fact, she played parts in early films and her name was Magarey Lorring, for those films.Norman Swallow: Is that Loring?Julia Cave: Lorring and we left there when I was […]
[…] artist. And I realised I could get into a special art course at a technical college without having my entrance […]
[…]ory Project - Interview No. 407[Copyright BECTU] Interview Date: 1997-04-30Interviewer: Roy Fowler Interviewee: Fred TomlinRoy Fowler: So starting at the beginning, when and where were you born?E.M. Smedley-Aston: Well I was born in Birmingham. My father was an accountant and during t[…]
