[…]the main programme, they'd go on about five minutes or so and there'd be a sign saying, 'The next picture's a Talkie'. And it would be a Musical Hall artist doing this to camera - knocked off - pointless! What is the use of doing this [laughs]? Let's get on with the programme, you know. But as soon […]
[…]And I was the eldest of seven, and my six brothers and sisters all went on the stage. Now that is ironic because my Grandfather was an old music hall artist and, well we've got to go back a long way for that. And I was brought up by him, until I was about nine or ten - nearly ten.Rodney Giesler: Wha[…]
[…]It was right at the beginning of the Second World War. I was born on September the eighth, five days after the beginning of the war. My father was an artist, by the time of the outbreak of war, a very successful artist, but he had been a territorial before the war. And he was called up slightly befo[…]
[…]y very thrilled for John because it was a dangerous film I was also thrilled for Jerry Hellman a director who produced it because they and for United Artists they'd all gone out on a limb with this movie and it was a big success and this this last year we had the 25th anniversary of Midnight Cowboy […]
[…] or twice and he still sang beautifully, his voice was going but he sang With great charm, and Tudor Davis also came occasionally. They came as guest artists usually to rescue the situation, if somebody else. There must be more, that's all I can for now.Td: What happened after that.Alexander Faris: […]
[…]Dolin. And I worked with them all. I was with the Vic Wells Ballet when it was created. I was in the corps de ballet of that. And I was a 9 solo artist and choreographer in the Markova/Dolin company and Dame Ninette gave me a certificate for choreography when I was about 13, I think I was even […]
[…]g you know about contracts you know about liability reform the contracts of the artists and so on. So I joined them as a TV writer as oh that was a&nb[…]
[…] Elvin, David, decided to come in to the field of animation, lo and behold David Elvin appeared at the doorstep and he became quite a good background artist which was anyway motivation to be together with the EC's team, George Elvin. Any way the real reason was that we got on as human beings are tog[…]
