[…]udy theatre production at Cambridge. And he stayed, he enjoyed the company. And that’s how I met him. DM: That’s nice, yes. Were you playing in parts opposite each other? SC: No. DM: No? So what did you in fact play? What was the biggest part you played at Cambridge? Can you remember?[…]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 160[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2003-08-29Interview Date: 1990-10-15Interviewer: Margaret Thomson and John TaylorInterviewee: Charles WilderTape 1, Side 1Margaret Thomson: ACT History Project number 160, Side one. We're interviewing Charles Wilder whose […]
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[…]y experiences for a young lad at that age of listening to Shakespeare every night.Ralph Bond : So, that's how you started in the theatre, in walk-on parts?Maurice Elvey : That's how I started in the theatre, and I determined never to leave it! Then the next job I got when that came to an end was I w[…]
[…]. But you could sense what was coming. There was a lot of ... We were dependent for camera equipment and lighting on the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts which ran their own film set up. Had a very good studio actually and first class equipment, but we used to get a certain amount of tooth sucking […]
[…]s spending all his time trying to find the boy, Toumi, time went by, no film came back, so more cables. Cable came back, have found boy, production starts immediately. Nothing happened. More cables, cable comes back, elephant unfortunately trod on boy. That is quite true. In the rushes you can see t[…]
[…]tell you, seriously, all the enthusiasm for that got beat now and me, because nobody would listen. I got to the minister who was the Minister for the arts and Christ knows what. I. I wrote him a long letter explaining to him, now the work I'd done over the years on various things that had helped his[…]
[…] never acted on television, they have all been interviews or documentaries I: Is that what Catch a Falling St ar […]
