Jill Craigie

[…] that was my ambition. And so I went to J Arthur Rank direct, I was fed up with working for […]

Jill Craigie

[…]d up with my kind of socialism. And so I wanted to interpret what the artists and town planners were saying, that was my ambition. And so I went to J Arthur Rank direct, I was fed up with working for the British Council, it didn't get anywhere and I thought some of the films were pretty silly. And h[…]

Bill Cotton

[…]o a lot of, for example he said I went into the rehearsal rooms of Dad's Army and I couldn't understand what they were on about until I realised that Arthur Lowe was the officer and John Le Mes was the sergeant which is completely the opposite to the way you would imagine. You would imagine that Le […]

Sidney Cole

[…]d made some films e. g. Defence of Madrid. In 1938 he had this project for making more films out there and assembled a group of people which included Arthur Graham, Alan Lawson, Thorold Dickinson and Philip Leacock, who afterwards became a well-known direct, and off we went to Spain. Originally we w[…]

Dallas Bower

[…]cenario editor but of course what it really meant was that he was the artistic director of the place and in as much as well he brought in people like Arthur Robeson, 'warning shadows' Robeson, E A Dupont, Hitch, Harry Lachman and cameramen such as Werner Brandes, Rene Gisard, I think for a short tim[…]

BEHP0654 S Edward (William) Graham

[…] he was a minor]. Hadn’t read the William Books (preferred Arthur Ransome), went for audition with c 1000 others, narrowed […]

Virginia McKenna

[…]st and kinetic sculptor whose cartoons and whimsical machines featured in several stage plays and in the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968).[13] Sir Arthur John Gielgud (1904-2000) was one of the most distinguished English stage actor-directors of the 20th century, known best for his extensive Shak[…]

Patrick (Paddy) Carey

[…] say on that, too, that once they have it, they, they never really let go and the business of art as a means of communicating it. I think I mentioned Arthur Koestler, his definition of art as a means of communication, which aims to elicit or recreated echo. In other words, that the thing in any work[…]
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