[…] it fell on my head, I wanted to be an artist. And I realised I could get into a special […]
[…]I think it went.00.28.28NA : Do you remember many of those early Rank photographic sessions?CL: I was literally doing four sessions a day of contract artists and some were very difficult and some very easy. But the difficult ones turned out to be the most interesting ones. I can remember A.E. […]
[…]they were just finishing – there was a set on the back lot for The Master of Bagdam, the Tom Walls picture – Ann Crawford, I can’t remember the other artistes. Just finishing that. Then they were making a Frank Randall picture When you Come Home, Diana Dekker was in it. But I used […]
[…]er 27:55 was a fairly good rapport between members of the cast and between the cast and you or problems, because they were such different artists.Christopher Miles 28:03 No, there were there were slight problems. Yes. I mean, I was they were resolved mostly on the set. But ye[…]
[…] I'm sure I'm sure a lot of them couldn't tell you what myrad?number was or anything you know. They're completely non technical. they call themselves artists but was it they used it as a painting with light? And today? I think they distemper with it. they don't paint?Alan Lawson 19:51 Di[…]
[…]hat? They don’t deserve their 10%, except one, Peter Ede, the late Peter Ede, bless him, he’s dead now, who rang me and said “He’s not one of my artists but I went to the Arts Theatre last night to see Siobhan McKenna who is one of my artists in Shaw’s Saint Joan and there is a young man there […]
[…]d Harris: Well the man in charge was a man named Hibbert, but Linden I think was the chief of the photographic department. He was a Royal - he was an artist, he had his pictures in the Royal Academy and he gave us lectures and demonstrations on portraiture and all that sort of thing.Alan Lawson: Yes[…]
[…]went to dinner there were twelve people there and I was the furthest away from Alex andthe people next to me were absolutely potty, one was a trapeze artist God knows why he was there,another was a make-up girl. After dinner that was the end and I never saw Alex again. So I wentback, back to Brendon[…]
[…], I would be following my inclinations and, of course, I had been quite an enthusiastic schoolboy actor and things like that. I was interested in the artistic side of things, perhaps, and I thought, "Well films sound like a marvellous idea." So that is my background...very little background! [Chuckl[…]
[…]give you a closing date.VG: If you had an agent, they'd work it out, I didn't have an agent, I did it direct.RF: I was just curious to the extent the artist was at the mercy of the production company, probably totally.VG: I would.have thought if you were in any kind of position as an actor you would[…]