[…]e said, "I think you ought to go into the Church." Like my cousin did - my cousin Patrick became a priest, you see. And he said, "I think it would be best if you followed your cousin Patrick into the Church business," you know. So I said, "Oh, OK Dad, I'll do that." So I joined the Catholic Church a[…]
[…] 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 […]
[…]'re just like the commercials nowadays, but they only lasted about a minute or so. And they were shown on the cinema screen - sort of how to make the best of your food and stretch your rations and...Charles Drazin: Showing delicious recipes with dried eggs and that kind of thing?Manny Yospa: Oh yes,[…]
[…] the years when I put down my roots in television. I learnt before there was any training organised to how to do It and that really is the best way to learn on the job. Everybody was learning at that time. It was only really just getting up steam after the war television. And most a lot o[…]
[…]out a thousand pounds a share, and that sort of thing! So, I never made a picture for Robert Clark.Arnold Schwartzman : You received an Academy Award nomination for 'Foreign Correspondent', and was that the same year that 'The Great Dictator' was also nominated?Charles Bennett : Yes, that got it...N[…]
[…]Then I spent six years at Brighton Art School, living in Brighton Very happy times and then Father had his studio at home in those days and he was my best critic. He taught me more than anything I ever learned at any art school. He was a very fine painter but only in a commercial sense. Anyway, from[…]
[…]me down and said “you’ve got THE prize”. I said “what do you mean?”Apparently, there was a prize given by Ann Mahal, (who I worked for later) for the best single performance. I had played (for my diploma) the friar in Romeo and Juliet, the old friar. Mrs Pargeter in a West Country play by Mase[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]aded there was a grading system, and you gave them all 12 hours and at the end of the 12 hours you graded them. And then obviously you put your best pupils recommended them as a pilots, because the knife went in as so many pilots, so many observes, so many air gunners and they were all going t[…]
[…]be, doing cleaning jobs, cleaning out tanks,cleaning up floors, cleaning walls, I became one of the best cleaners in thebusiness. In fact I always said that I'd finish up as a cleaner o[…]
