Jimmy Wright

[…]t. Was on the Sunday night. It was in March. I think I was awarded my BAFTA yes Award on Sunday night and on the Tuesday I was at Buckingham Palace&nb[…]

Maurice Elvey

[…]ced plays by Chekov, Strindberg, Ibsen and all the... what were then the new dramatists of the day. Inevitably, this brought me into contact with the best sort of minds of the day. Believe it or not, it brought me into contact with H.G. Wells: the greatest influence in my whole life. It also brought[…]

Joy Batchelor

[…]pre-planning of the jury selection committees. I did my share of those.Kay Mander: That would be for what, for the BFA, British Film Academy days? Or BAFTA?Joy Batchelor: BAFTA. And abroad too. I was on the Venice Film Festival, and one in Portugal, one in Spain. There was a general consensus, and I[…]

Christopher Challis

[…]ther cameramen.KGY: I know Powell says when he saw the way things looked like when Perinal shot them he couldn't believe it and he thought he was the best there was.CC: He was wonderful with women, Pery, marvellous. He was an artist. I think there were others, Gregg Toland was a legend, he was marve[…]

Cyril Howard

[…]bsp;I'm pointing to the wall at a picture of the Gong Man and I fancy theGong man has been the best man in this industry in this country since it   started. The Rank Organisation was in[…]

Peter Sargent

[…] brilliantly lit compared with some of the others. He was very good, but working on the top-notch movies made here-he got the reputation of being the best.DB. So who do you think were his equal or superior at the time?PS. I can't think, because I'm trying to think of some of the American lighting ca[…]

Reg Sutton

[…]a tiff and she came up to see me so I said well let's get married. So I got a special licence unknown to anyone and one of the lads in the BBC was my best man, he's retired now,. We nipped out at lunchtime and we got married. That was on a Friday. On a Saturday my holiday started so we went on a hon[…]

Bessie Bond (née Span)

[…]en Neilson Baxter who was the Treasurer found this place in Soho Square to buy - the Union had no money, you know, and a shot in the dark, it was the best thing the union had done - I think it was four thousand pounds if I remember correctly, something like that, and that was when the buzz bombs wer[…]

Freddie Young

[…]bout some other of his colleagues; working with Herbert Wilcox, a terrific promoter but not a great director. 00:29:40 – 00:30:10FY: I think the best, one of the best films, I think was Victoria the Great.  I’ve seen that … it’s been reprint … redone, you know, on the new stock.  And […]
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