Teddy Darvas

[…]gard: He doesn't recall what the film was?Teddy Darvas: No, it was some one-reeler or two-reeler [in about 1908]. And when Robert Rush, the BBC producer, that did the programme about Korda, he asked my father to go and tell this story but father said 'Who wants an ugly old Jew who speaks v[…]

Albert Critoph

[…]orwich union through the Merton Park Studios pension fund. Then I was out of work for a short while after the studio closed, and I had friends in the BBC projection department, and I told them what I was out of work. And they said, Would I like to join their projection team? And at that particular t[…]

Robert Beatty

[…]Lom [uncredited but present. DS] and Peter Ustinov were in the cast.Robert Beatty: A very small part whatever it was, because I might have joined the BBC at that time, I was working at night and living in London, eventually I got moved out to Evesham after the BBC got bombed, but that was towards th[…]

Lord Lew Grade

[…] Lew Grade : I think, and they all talk about,, BBC taking advertising... That would be absolutely disaster. Alan Sapper […]

Charles Picken

[…]ovelty compendium to play the Saturday family show slot and the Late Night Show slot. At the time Tom and Jerry cartoons were gaining good ratings on BBC so I asked for ten of them in a programme and to provide a bit of variety between the non-stop mayhem of the cartoon characters’ warring I suggest[…]

Diane Tammes

[…]f different companies, or, or for just a few major ones, or, or...?Within film?Y es.Within film, I, well I worked for, Granada to start off with, and BBC. Granada was a very forward-thinking company at that time. So, it had a lot of series, likeDisappearing World and, it did do quite a few seri[…]
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