[…] memorial event for Hohn Mills after he’d died , at BAFTA and Dickie was chairman or vice -chairman of BAFTA […]
[…] ah now we come to the piece de, piece de BAFTA, ‘Testament of Youth’. Exactly. [Laughter] How did ‘Testament of […]
[…] white photography this last year, I think it was a BAFTA award. Manny Yospa: Do you mean Bob Krasker? Leonard […]
[…] he got me into their engineering workshops in Hammersmith. And for two or three years I had good training, going […]
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BEHP Interview No 0726t Roger Smither (RS). Transcript. Interviewer: Murray Weston (MW). MW: This interview is No 726 for the British Entertainment History Project. The subject, the interviewee, is Roger Smither, and I’m Murray Weston, interviewing.Now Roger, we start as with most of these[…]
[…]. Like the director’s slogging away every night doing the shot list for the next day, you know.Yes, yes. Mm, ah now we come to the piece de, piece de BAFTA, ‘Testament of Youth’. Exactly. [Laughter]How did ‘Testament of Youth’ come about? I had a phone call from, mm, should I introduce that for you […]
[…]Although I did love him, respected him, he was a very intelligent man and he was a very orthodox Jew. We had a family a huge family, we were comfortable, we had a reasonable family life, and we never went hungry. In those days it was easy to go hungry. My Grandfather had a grocery […]
[…]e Maggie Smith, you name it they were all Fellows of theBritish Film Institute; and then I went to a memorial event for John Mills afterhe’d died, at BAFTA and Dickie was chairman or vice-chairman of BAFTA or84something and so Dickie was given the job of presenting this memorial tributeto John Mills[…]