Derek Williams

[…]he cynical, materialistic right wingers had been right about the Soviet Union, the Russian themselves were telling me what sort of life they had been living for the last 773 years. And I think it was a rather frightening and later grey and bleak life that they have lived. Glyn Jones  35:20[…]

Sue (Susan) Crockford

[…] artist, John Hoyland, the artist?No.SF: No, sorry .His parents are Communist Party.SF: Yes.In Brownshill Gardens where we lived there were diplomats living next door to us and when they went away they allowed us to let it to people that we wanted to let it to, so we had a semi-commune going between[…]

John Schlesinger

[…]esinger: Nominated, and so was John Voight. But sentimentally I think out of, John Wayne got it for True Grit. I think they were more generous at the BAFTA awards. I think they got awards here. Norman Swallow: A very great film John Schlesinger: It's just been revived, 25 years. They've re[…]

Ted (Robert Edward) Newman

[…]ouse there. And a very nice house and the Mayfair cinema, a very common was being built at the time. During its after its construction. We were still living out there. And I always remember them putting loudspeakers out on the canopy to relay the sound. And oh, no, that is strictly against all regul[…]

Ray (Ramon) Morse

[…] and we struck an iceberg and got lost in the fog and ripped out 22 portholes Wireless was reported missing and all that kind of stuff, you know, was living on Machnihie stew  to that the army had left behind in tins and all that kind of stuff in here. But we eventually landed in St John's, New[…]

Charles Bennett

[…] fighting! Ha ha!Arnold Schwartzman : I assume that you lived in London, or...?Charles Bennett : Oh, yes. At the time that 'Blackmail' was made I was living in West Halkin St., overlooking Belgrave Square, you know. It was lovely, lovely to live there, I loved it. And I hated to leave, but I lived t[…]

Cyril Howard

[…]amongst them because you were there not just looking at people making films but in a formalcapacity .RF:  Doing a useful job. CH:  Absolutely.  I'd go in there with my dirty bit of pape[…]

Jill Langley

[…] because it was all over the place, you know. AndUnknown Speaker  30:55  as I said, it was a bad time for me. So my parents, I had my I was living in my own flat. It wasn't mine, but I rented it in my flat then in Weybridge and my parents were still in Walton, and my dead mom was ringing m[…]

Gawn Grainger

[…]ly really a Londoner. We came to London in – well we came to London in 1937. DB: And then later when you went to school, you went to Westminster City? GG: Well this was quite some time later, this was after the War. But before that I’d been evacuated to Ireland and I spent three or four ye[…]

Renee Glynne

[…]Renée Alma Glynne, nee Renée Galler. I was born in Hackney in 1926 which was the year of The General Strike, of very nice parents, whose parents were living in Russia at the time of the pogroms and left in, say, 1890, something like that. Went from there, accidentally, to New York â€“ I thin[…]
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