[…] a large family, nine children. You had to be in, in these old, it was only an ordinary council school and you had to be in what they called X7 for six months before you could take this exam, which was a called a labour exam. I still have the thing upstairs. If you passed this exam[…]
[…]nd my parents were friendly with Edgar Wallace’s Art Director, the only lady art director at the time. She was very talented, when she wasn’t working for Edgar Wallace, mainly in the theatre,LH: Edgar Wallace, apart from being a writer, was presumably a film director-WR: Well for some time – I was s[…]
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[…]and it seemed as though - [chuckles] she told me that she was born in Carnaby Street and her father had a tailor's workshop, although that was long before my time, it was a coincidence. But anyway my mother had to just work day and night, because we had three children. And when I - instead of carryi[…]
[…]ery early in life, very early. And there was a big family law suite and they bought him out of the family business. He didn't do anything after about forty.Roy Fowler: Oh, what a lucky man!Vernon Sewell: Yes, he was. [Chuckling]Roy Fowler: What was the family business? Out of curiosit[…]
[…]ed that the Royal Television Society became the leading television society in the country, I mean, it was far more important in television terms than BAFTA, which after all, also embraced film. I’m not decrying BAFTA. I think BAFTA do a fine job. But after all it’s film and televis[…]
[…]a is the British Association of British amateur video awards. Sorry, and that replaced the 10 Best. So that was quite an occasion when we went to the BAFTA Institute in Piccadilly to receive the award. Then followed the American dream, a travelogue in California, Palm Springs, San Diego and Los Ange[…]
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[…]any people!Alan Lawson : Yes!Gordon McCallum : I came back to England with my parents, who are English, when I was about four, and my schooling, therefore, was in England - that's why they came back, largely. And so my memory of America is pretty slight.Alan Lawson : What schooling did you have?Gord[…]
