[…] film industry, he was a pilot, a mosquito pilot during the war, and he caught TB, and when he was3rdcured of that he went to Shepperton and became a assistant producer and he worked on Anna Karenina. I remember. I'm trying to think of the films. His first film was Anna Karenina with Kieron Moore an[…]
[…] went, he talked to Jamie Kelly who was a lovely assistant director, he said "I can’t get anywhere with Chilli, I… […]
[…] on the script, he worked on the camera, it’s said. I don’t know. Do you remember that?CB: No I don’t think he worked on the camera, noI: Well, as an assistant, I don’t mean actually lightingCB: He was so very rarely on the set. He used to just sit and watch oh, I’m sure he did plenty- a stuntman?I:[…]
[…]f, you know …ALAN LAWSON: So, so from a callboy to a child actor, you then graduated?HARRY MILLER: Well, actually, from the callboy I got promoted to assistant stage manager and then, I, as soon as I thought the money’s not so good as my callboy salary so I thought manager, stage manager is the thin[…]
[…]day and on the Friday morning as usual word got around we were going to carry on working all night because we had to finish the film. Well the camera assistant I think was Jeff Talbott was then called yet although he was quite an old man. I think it was t a l b e r. Jeff Talbott he lived at We[…]
[…]he newbie was Duty manager with Ted at the other end of the country spending the Christmas period with his family in Plymouth. Mr. Hewitt, the Senior Assistant Business Unit Manager, had rather inconveniently - and we suspected opportunistically - gone off on the sick. This unit management position,[…]
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[…] 1932. Throughout the 1930s he worked as Production Assistant, and Assistant Director at a variety of studios, including Gaumont British, MGM […]
[…]have had anything but a sinking feeling when this terribly well-spoken nice young man, nice young boy in effect came, was sent by Guildford to be his assistant. He had to produce 24 columns of copy a week for the newspaper and within three months I was writing at least six or seven of those co[…]
[…]the whole time. I think there was at that time...there was about 8 sound stages and there was at least two or three pictures on the go. And the First Assistants varied tremendously from the sort of doyen of them all, which we casually called Frank Mills. I don't know whether the name is familiar to […]
