[…] here recording you because we've both (Alan and I) read that fascinating autobiography of yours, so I won't ask you very much about the early days before you were in films, but you were born in 1905, which makes you a bit older than me, but did your family have any connection with the entertainment[…]
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[…]er:479Interviewers: Rodney Giesler Side 1Rodney Giesler:This is an interview with Roy Fowler recorded by Rodney Giesler on the 13 June 2000 for the BECTU oral history archive in whom copyright of this interview is vested.Rodney Giesler:Roy, can you tell me when you were born and where, a b[…]
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[…]er I would be the boss of 'Euston Films', but that's another story. Anyway so I was getting depressed and that and then suddenly there's a problem at BAFTA. Now I had been on the BAFTA council for quite some time. I was a very impressionable guy. I mean I got on the BAFTA council and there's all the[…]
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[…] now, Lime Grove at Shepherd's Bush, and I started there. And the reason I started there was because my father was having a film made there. He wrote for the cinema and theatre, and I thought it would be a good idea to go into films because you didn't need any intelligence as far as I was concerned,[…]
[…]se is awards and honours and things like that. Have you had any [inaudible]?Well, I’m a Fellow of the Royal College of Art, and, I’ve got a BAFTA.For?A Channel 4 film Cutting Edge: Casualties.Ah, OK. And your parents did what? It’s sort of relevant.[laughs] My father was in the A[…]
[…]er he was very good, he was a very good plumber and he was very good technically and eventually he got involved in the early days of polythene piping for nuclear installations, for laboratories, for industrial plants, for that sort of thing, extractive piping and became a manager in a big chemical p[…]
