Richard (Dickie) Best

[…]hard, where and when were you born.DB: I was born in Hull in 1916 and brought down to London at an earlyage, about 3 or 4, where I've been ever since for which I'm dulygrateful because if I'd been kept up there I would never have entered thefilm industry.AG: What kind of schooling did you receive?DB[…]

John (Johnny) Goodman

[…]er I would be the boss of 'Euston Films', but that's another story. Anyway so I was getting depressed and that and then suddenly there's a problem at BAFTA. Now I had been on the BAFTA council for quite some time. I was a very impressionable guy. I mean I got on the BAFTA council and there's all the[…]

Nancy Thomas

[…]ay, ‘Gargantua, I must have...’ whatever it was he wanted to have, you know. [laughter] I knew him right to the very end because I used to see him at BAFTA and various places and his voice would come ringing out, ‘Gargantua! How are you?’ And everybody would turn round. [laughter] This very small ch[…]

Jack Gold

[…]hools, it was leading up to and during the war, was my school period and I was sort of semi-evacuated. I think I must have gone through something … before I finished school age … something like 10 or 11 schools, dotted round London, Stratford, villages round Stratford, Exeter … NS What, Stratfo[…]

Kay Mander

[…]e that. But there was a place that they always used to go to called the 'Kameradschaft der deutschen K�nstler' which was a sort of - well it was like BAFTA, you could eat there, and drink there and meet your friends.Sidney Cole: Did you see a lot of films in Berlin?Kay Mander: Oh yes! Masses! - I sa[…]

Dicky Leeman

[…]erInterviewee: Dicky Leeman  Tape 1, Side 1Rodney Giesler: This is an interview with Dicky Leeman, by Rodney Giesler, in Bognor Regis. It's for the BECTU Oral History Project and it's recorded on Friday 22nd September 1995....When you were born and a bit about your family history.Dicky Lee[…]

Frances Cockburn

[…]re interviewing Francis Cockburn I spell the name C O C K B U R N, who started life in the film industry as an editor became a producer and finally information officer interviewer is Margaret Thompson the date is the 16th of March 1990 side one.So, Frances tell us something about your background whe[…]

Charles Picken

Charles Picken  -  My Cinema LifeCHAPTER ONE - MY FORMATIVE YEARSFrom my earliest childhood the magic of the Cinema had been firmly entrenched in my life. In those days television had not yet begun its inexorable march into the living rooms of the nation and the weekly visit, or in my fort[…]

Interview

[…]This transcript has been produced automatically using Speechmatics.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for any misinterpretation of the content of this interview.However, the BE[…]
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