James (Jimmy) Gilbert

[…]g a number at the piano which I'd written which was really just sending up these old home time numbers, straw hat number and cane with an old variety artiste's daughter who was a tiny little girl with a mass of red curls on top. And who Tony Guthrie called the sponge because he could see her floatin[…]

Christopher Challis

[…]e when Perinal shot them he couldn't believe it and he thought he was the best there was.CC: He was wonderful with women, Pery, marvellous. He was an artist. I think there were others, Gregg Toland was a legend, he was marvellous.KGY: You said you were at Technicolor, and the only Englishman there, […]

Alan Lawson

[…]s leg in the First World War, He was a lovely man, a real gentleman. Also with us in that same room was a very famous, or became a very famous poster artist, Abraham Gaines, who's job was to make posters for the army. He was in the artillery and I think he was a lance bombardier. And poor old Gamsey[…]

Peter Tanner

[…]ntinually. They were very factory line pictures but we were experimenting with young actors, all those pictures went to Fox in America to look at the artists. I remember jack Hawkins was in one, I worked on a very early picture of his as an assistant, and one or two others, Richard Green, and James […]

Eric Cross

[…] they had to come out with a mallet and hit it to shake the carbon down and they were very big things and they wanted them within about a foot of the artists head, which created a bit of difficulty with mike shadows.Arthur Graham: You've named various directors with whom you've worked. Were there an[…]

Alan Lawson

[…] was a very famous, or became a very famous poster artist, Abraham Gaines, who's job was to make posters for […]

2eric-cross-history-project

[…] and they wanted them within about a foot of the artists head, which created a bit of difficulty with mike […]

Waseem Mahmood

[…]record the big music, things that everybody numbers that people are still talking about, because I think we've managed to get some of the major major artists from Bollywood in those India and Pakistan as well. In those days. I think we, you'd be surprised to learn that our cash budget for Asian maga[…]

Michael Houldey

[…]th it and taken with him. And he was she was about to make a musical, which was a sort of musical journey through Paris with with various guest guest artists on Route. And he got the job. So I read about that. And I thought, I've got a tract on Eddie Moto, which I did. And I told him what I wanted t[…]
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