[…]usiness of when and where you were born, just to get going.Philip Leacock: I was actually born in London, in Ealing I think. But this was not my home for a while because my parents lived in the Canary Islands and so we were brought up like many people, we went to boarding school over here but our ho[…]
[…]ber 1987 Interviewer, Arthur Graham Arthur Graham: Where and when were you born?Alan Lawson: I was born in Gidea Park, a suburb of Romford in July 1912, we moved to London 3 years later.Arthur Graham: Whereabouts?Alan Lawson: Hampstead Garden Suburb where I more or less lived ever si[…]
[…] on a freelance basis. During the 1930s he worked largely for Gaumont and Gainsborough on films such as The Constant […]
[…] you receive? Alan Lawson: I went to a small kindergarten for about a term which my father was very fed […]
[…]s to be doing, if you were lucky, 30 [%] but mostly in the 20s so it was quite sensational at the time. And then, low and behold, they went on to win BAFTAs and things like that which was fantastic! So, it was, I mean I find it hard to think that anybody lived through a more golden era of opportunit[…]
[…] 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[…]
