Wendy Toye

[…] I'm concerned he was a wonderful fellow, Bill O'Brien, who used to cast for Alex in those days. And I'd made The Stranger Left No Card for George K. Arthur who had gone into production with silent film stars, Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan and all those people. And I'll tell you how he got me to[…]

Daphne Anstey (nee Lily)

[…] nice and it was a nice time to be working at Standard.Then Margaret Ann was sent over to England to get some film and when she was over here she met Arthur Elton, she came back to New York, to World Today, but she did announce that she was going to go over to England to be married to Arthur Elton. […]

Oswald (Ossie) Morris

[…] on fares no matter what I did and getting a bit of food. But I was working at Elstree and it was a really big picture it was directed by Paul Stein. Arthur Catterick? photographed Brian Langley was operating the Noel Rowlands was assistant and I was the clapper boy and. Frank Catham? first assistan[…]

Dicky Leeman

[…] was with Bill as Floor Manager when he did the Arthur Askey series and things. Rodney Giesler: Because Humphrey Lestocq […]

Cyril Pennington

[…] claims the film was shot so rapidly at Pinewood that Arthur Rank was moved to investigate in person. Pennington-Richards also […]

sidney-cole-transcript-1987

[…] Transcription Date: (Digital: 2012-10-02) Interview Date: 1987-07-09 Interviewers: Alan Lawson, Arthur Graham, Rodney Giesler Interviewee: Sidney Cole [Sidney Cole, producer, director, […]

Dicky Leeman

[…] In fact we had Peter, when Bill Ward was doing the Terry Thomas show we had Peter in that. And also I was with Bill as Floor Manager when he did the Arthur Askey series and things.Rodney Giesler: Because Humphrey Lestocq used to be that character 'Flying Officer Kite'.Dicky Leeman: That's right, ye[…]

Cyril Pennington-Richards

[…]nds, I can always remember that. And MGM bought the 35mm rights off us for a thousand. And the Religious Film Society, who had had a lot of money off Arthur Rank and had produced virtually nothing, offered us - the 16mm rights were worth about thirty-five pounds,that was the value of one reel - they[…]
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