[…];risen from the ranks since I came back, because coming back in 1948 I joined the Secretarial Department as assistant to the company secretary, a rnan called Bill Able, and our ultimate boss was Tim White[…]
GUIDO COENCopyright is invested in ACTT History Project.Guido Coen, producer and director of Twickenham Film Studios - interviewer Sid Cole .SIDE 1, TAPE 1SC: We always ask about origins, where were you born.GC : I was born in Milan, in 1915 which makes me 73, I don't feel it but its there.SC : And […]
[…] we did. And as I say.. you talk about falling on your feet, and I fell on my feet! I had a skilled, ex-film cameraman called Bob, and an experienced assistant, and a very experienced sound man called Ben Brightwell. And they would come in in the morning and say, ‘What are we going to do now’. Well […]
[…] 28:26 Absolutely.Unknown Speaker 28:28 hierarchy classroom.Unknown Speaker 28:33 But I went to work for him as an assistant when I was really that the shorthand typist I mean, I went in on that school, but it was one like the army the programme was I mean, I've ne[…]
[…]got to say is, sorry, I then went to another job before that, which was a group of companies, again as a secretary, but I moved up to being the admin assistant and one of the jobs I had to do there was find them a new headquarters. So I worked with estate agents and went round and found them a build[…]
[…]h was of course Date With A DreamAlan Lawson: Had Tempean come into existenceMonty Berman That was Tempean, and we got Dicky Leeman, I knew him as an assistantdirector, we got him to direct it. We had a very good cast in it really. It had Terry-Thomasand Norman Wisdom. That was his first of film, I'[…]