Search Results for: BAFTA for Casualties (Cutting Edge series 1991)

[…] here recording you because we've both (Alan and I) read that fascinating autobiography of yours, so I won't ask you very much about the early days before you were in films, but you were born in 1905, which makes you a bit older than me, but did your family have any connection with the entertainment[…]

[…]whether it was Paramount or something like that. And they used to make silent films round there, and occasionally they would enlist some local people for crowd scenes, everybody would be in it from round about you see, and there would be comings and goings of these people going into this studio.Well[…]

[…]6 February 1989. A          In point of fact I was born in 1906 and the birth place was down in Deptford right over that part of London.  Later on we moved up to an area where I was for a long time - that was in Crofton(?) Park, that is near Cat[…]

[…]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[…]

[…]Katy McGahan  0:02  OK, this is an interview by Katy McGahan, one of the curators in the Non-Fiction unit at the BFI interviewing for the BECTU History Project, Mary Orrom, filmmaker, editor and director. And it's 25th of January 2011.  Katy McGahan  0:30 […]

[…]d to another council estate.  But left school 1950.  I had two years’ training with the GPO as a telephone engineer, then went into the RAF for two years’ national service, 1952 – 54, and when I came out I went back to the GPO until 1957 when I joined the BBC as a Technical Operator in Oct[…]

[…] permission of the BECTU History Project (http://www.historyproject.org.uk/). Copyright of interview material is vested in the BECTU History Project (formerly the ACTT History Project) and the right to publish some excerpts may not be allowed. Liz Forgan Page 1BECTU History ProjectIntervie[…]