Search Results for: BAFTA nomination Best Actress for The Russian Bride (2002)

[…]theme. Robert Hamer directed it. And he said we want a tune that Sounds like a Cross between an English folksong and a Haydn quartet. And so I did my best. The ironic thing was that little film was used as the short for the Royal Film Performance of that year. So the very first professional piece of[…]

[…]eraman, let say it's John Smith, I said Karel I want you to know that I am the rich man's John Smith. And Karel burst out laughing and we've been the best of friends everAlan Lawson: Again another delight for person to work withFreddie Francis: Very nice, a bit of a old fuss-pot but very niceAlan Or[…]

[…]ok around the guild and I thought what is a pretty coming out for they could do with a really good assistant. So I thought, Okay, I'm going to be the best assistant they've ever had. So I did, I did the whole thing completely professionally, the director who is darling called Hara Purcell. He has no[…]

[…]x picture at the Gate National as they they set up. He set up a very big organisation, which was going to be a nucleus of directors or producers, the best in the country. And um - actually it was one of my shortest jobs, I started on a Monday morning and was fired at lunchtime! On a thing called 'D-[…]

[…] man.1: And he was good to work with? He knew his stuff? You tell me.No, he did know his stuff. Yes, he knows his stuff, as you know, he’s one of the bestdirectors in the world. And after that I did a film called, well I suppose I did so many.Flash Gordon. I mean I can’t... I did a film with Be[…]

[…]e was Richard Mason, who was writing the, helping write the catalogue of all these films. Who very soon afterwards wrote "The Wind Cannot Read", that best seller or rather, at the end of the war, and went on to bigger and better things... so he was there. And it was in Saville Row, I think 25, it's […]

[…]s because I had not yet learned tact. When I was offered a box of chocolates, I didn't take one chocolate, I took the whole box. I think that was the best lesson.(note; in a later memoire my father explained that it was his brother Joseph who was sent to live in Zurich, he, John, was sent to be fatt[…]

[…]ith feeling. And the first one we did which might well havebeen one of the best was about the Gorbals, the slums of Glasgow which was aterrifying scene. And we&[…]