Jill Balcon (Day-Lewis)

[…] from the sport point of view. He must have been extremely bright. I knew how much he would have liked to go to the university. And was obviously the best possible material for it, but couldn't. What else did I know? I knew that Granny Balcon must have been rather a saint because the old boy my gran[…]

E M (Michael) Smedley Aston

[…]ms with Errol Flynn and Jimmy Cagney, that Michael Curtiz and Raoul Walsh who were the two big action directors for Warners. And he was...I think the best director I ever worked with. But he was very relaxed, he wasn't at all the sort of Hollywood megaphone type, he was fairly quiet. Roy Kellino was[…]

Harry Manley

[…]en on the individual labs did their own negotiations; only 35 staff working at Perivale at time of interview; HM took retirement in 1989 then went to BAFTA as finance director.00:25:12 – 00:34:26 Universal labs came in as a rival to CFS; 16mm wasn’t considered ‘professional’; they had very few perso[…]

Dicky Leeman

[…] going. And I had, eventually about two and a half years with 'Young Woodley'. And I can remember we never repeated a theatre. And later on one of my best jobs was assistant stage manager on the touring production of 'The Miracle', which was with Diana Manners and Glen Byam Shaw, in which I was the […]

Erica Masters

[…]laughing!And anyway, so she gave me this white overall and I went and I gave this lady matron a massage and after half-an-hour she said, "This is the best massage I've ever had in my life, you've got the job!" So I said, "Thank you very much," and I went back to Ellen and again, hysterical laughter […]

John Brabourne (Knatchbull)

[…] things there. And this was his biggest thing he did. He did a wonderful job. Then I suppose I still see a lot of him where he was he is a trustee of BAFTA.Unknown Speaker  38:51  Yes, IUnknown Speaker  38:52  see him.Lord Brabourne  38:55  And he he'd actually working […]

Gerry Fisher

[…]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[…]

Wendy Toye

[…] and he showed me three stories, three short stories and said what do you think of them. I said well I think this one, Stranger in Town is one of the best stories I’ve ever read. But I did suggest to him and also to Sidney Carroll, who was the author, who was very famous in America, has done some wo[…]

Pat Jackson

[…]amen too were all from, er... GPO weren't they?Pat Jackson: [Over interviewer] Oh absolutely! I mean [Izzy 56] with an [aero filter] and hope for the best! [not clear - ?] [Chuckles]John Legard: They hadn't had any experience...Pat Jackson: Oh, of course not! Of course not!John Legard: ...in studios[…]

Fred Tomlin

[…]oped, including Vanessa's performance. All the audio engineers there couldn't have been more complimentary, saying again and again that they were the best results they have ever had with a Stedhiacer[?] microphone." [BA stumbles over name of microphone - helped out by FT - some indecipherable dialog[…]
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