[…]ly using Otter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-transcription/.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for any misinterpretation of the content of this interview.However, the BE[…]
[…]2; left the council school at 14 during the war; worked at a factory making hand grenades, then moved to Napier’s motor cars in Acton, splicing ropes for army tents in White City, at an artificers’ guild; used to visit the cinema two or three times a week; Gaumont was a big glass studio in those day[…]
[…] or sometimes I may have got a couple of pennies for doing an odd job, so I'd have enough money […]
[…]ause he was instrumental in lots of movies that I did and were wonderful. John Slessinger, all his movies. The first nomination I got for BAFTA was on a John Slessinger picture which was Sunday Bloody Sunday.I am getting to feel quite hot under the collar that I am not mentioning your To[…]
[…]away, because I'd go down and hang around. Sometimes people would know me to say, "We'll let you in," or sometimes I may have got a couple of pennies for doing an odd job, so I'd have enough money to go down and say to Mr Murphy, "That's what I've got." And being a Dublin man, he would never say, "I[…]
[…]No, Cardiff.SC: Were your parents connected with the entertainment business?DM: No, my father was the Principal of a training college and my mother before her marriage had been headmistress of a big girls’ school. Academics.SC: Ah, academic background. So what got you into ... finally … after your s[…]
[…]otton Jr was born on 23 April 1928, educatedArdingnye College, SussexSIDE 1, TAPE 1John Taylor: Your father started working with the band early on, before you were born I supposeBill Cotton Jr: Absolutely, yes, he started the band in the 20s, early 20s. And I was born in 1928 and I think by that tim[…]
[…]of the time, in Kays in fact all of the time. And I did about a year in Kays. And then got a job at the new GPO Film Unit at Blackheath.Roy Fowler: Before we leave Kays, may I ask what your starting pay was?Norman Fisher: That's rather difficult to remember; it can't have been awfully much more than[…]
[…] of… we did a play, a Shakespeare play every year for a week, for the public. And the Cardiff theatres […]
