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[…]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[…]
[…]any of this happened, I had done a series called Edward And Mrs. Simpson for Thames. Yeah. And that was just... ...it got the Emmy and the BAFTA when I was shooting Baby Makes Six. And Colleen Dewhurst stopped the shoot and said "I want to announce that my director's just won an award". A[…]
[…] British film had beennominated for an award by the Academy, and I got the award for art direction that year. Ididn't get the actual Oscar, I got the nomination, not the award. I think it was the very firstnomination from this country, I may be under an illusion there, but of course it was veryearly[…]
[…]7 Yeah the first year was quite fun. made friends. On the first day a very sweet kid came up to me her name was Penny Smyth. Can I be your best friend? And I said, Absolutely. I'd love to be your best friend. So I enjoyed the first year. But I was already very, I was very naughty. I was v[…]
[…] (laughs). I couldn't get over it; we will pay you nine pounds a week2 Roy Oxley (1899-?) was a British production designer at the BBC, he won a BAFTA for his work on The Portrait of a Lady in 1969.3 Peter Bax was a production designer at the BBC, he worked on productions includi[…]
[…]ot more liberal, although the older ones were a bit sniffy, I mean they tended tosort of suck up to the adults by being monitors and prefects but the best society was the servantshall where they were about five or six Scots women and girls and they were quite uninhibited and Ihad the most agreeable […]
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[…]was a one-off.Rodney Giesler: I don't know. I never met him (Neame) although I wrote and thanked him profusely. Also I only finally met David Lean at BAFTA about 6 months before he died. But that day at Pinewood was the next step towards movie-making.John Legard: Your day out at Pinewood was a very […]
[…]bout a school, but to get to our grammar school, “cor, ‘ere George Wilson’s boy Den, he’s got himself a scholarship, Christ.” So you go there in your best suit. The master was a chap called Maurice M.A (Oxon) and he spoke rather well, whereas we was talking more [faux cockney] “a bit like that darli[…]
