Search Results for: Arthur Graham

[…]ow what had happened to people’s lives, and it was, well, it was quite depressing. The, the coalfields had been devastated. Whatever one thinks about Arthur Scargill, he was right. They closed hundreds of pits, hundreds of thousands of jobs. We don’t have a coal industry. We have a bit of opencast m[…]

[…]king and a guarantee of 52 days’ work a year.  And none of them survived, except for me of courseI: But the early films as I see, Tommy Handley, Arthur Askey this reflected your variety backgroundJK: Yes it did, they saw me at the London Palladium of course, at times during the war were hard, y[…]

[…]son: Would they come from abroad, from America?Charles Wilder: I don't know where they came from at all, I just don't know. We had a man named Jolly. Arthur Jolly, I think he was the first one I remember as a sound cameraman [NB Stan Jolly?]. But like everything else it grew and grew in every depart[…]

[…]umphries had written, he used to write little musicals, and he wrote … they were absolutely brilliant … he wrote one about James Joyce in Paris which Arthur Mullard played Gertrude Stein I remember. Anyway, he’d written one about the Pre-Raphaelites, and there was a scene in it with John Ruskin, pla[…]

[…]ould go and discuss your problemsand he would say it was not worth redoing it, or, you know, and you were on a levelplane. But if you went to talk to Arthur, you'd come away knowing how to sell bruised tinned salmon cans because, [laughs] I presume that was after Filippo Del Guidice left- LH: H[…]