[…]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[…]
[…]onservative Government - Willie Whitelaw & Leon Brittain. I set up meeting for Leon to meet would-be independent producers. I set up screening at BAFTA of films by independent producers – Mike Dodds, Michael Peacock, John Cleese, Roy Godfrey. We made it look like enormous pool of talent – actual[…]
[…]ment when I wanted to go into show business.MIKE DICK: (Time 02:02) What about your Dad? What did your Dad do?PETE MURRAY: He ran the pub for my grandfather in the East End so I didn’t see a lot of him but he had a rather tragic life in as much as that in the First World War in the Battl[…]
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[…] and, you know, we had a good, good life. We really did. We helped each other. We've, when we won our major awards, we won them at the same time, the BAFTA Awards. We rarely work together, only at the end when we made two films in India. And we did some... a script on something else and Steel. But a[…]
[…]ad to write a thesis on any subject you wanted to. So I said I'd write a thesis on films. So I used to go to the school library and get out all the information I could on films, quite useless information but information. And during this on one of my holidays I scrounged a visit to, I've forgotten th[…]
[…]m with a View in I was operated and lit and more recently the how's the recent one won the Oscar for for light, not for lighting and won it for one a BAFTA award I bet one thethink what it was? Or blank for the moment? Trying to think too many too many directions at once. Well, nevermind, we'llleave[…]
