[…]eaded by Ray Stark. And Ray Stark at that moment in his life was both a producer, both head of Seven Arts and still an agent. And his principle woman actress was Nancy Kwan, who'd just played The World of Suzie Wong, her first film. She had replaced France Nuyen.Nancy Kwan was the daughter of an arc[…]
[…]f getting very worried about their little empire. So Dick said I could make it, but I had to use her - Ruth Furst - play her own part, she was not an actress at all, but we did it, with her, I mean I did the script with her, and she lived, relived her own part, and we had a lot of South African emig[…]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 58 [Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2002-09-20Interview Date: 1988-10-11Interviewer: Alan LawsonInterviewee: Gordon McCallumTape 1, Side 1 Alan Lawson : Now, Mac...when were you born?Gordon McCallum : May 26th 1919.Alan Lawson : And where was that?[…]
[…]ny photographers around many different photographers involved. And. In order to make it happen it was sort of several documentaries. Okay we're up to 1956 now. You just finished animal world which didn't take too long to do. Why would a man go away worked on it for about six or seven weeks right. An[…]
[…]d he wouldn't sign the agreement so I just carried on without any contract and then eventually I left and came out on my own. As I say that was about 1956 I think - '54 - somewhere, I have a job to remember you know.John Taylor: Oh your memory is very good.Charles Wilder: When I went to Spain it was[…]
[…]now, rather like the Candid Camera kind of thing.  So that was taken off the air and I lost that. But the big thing that happened to me in 1956 was getting the part of Richard Hilary in The Last Enemy and that again, all the actors were after it. And I had to meet the parents, Richa[…]
[…] and everything was driven from the sound truck, we'd got all the things there.Now then, they hadn't hired a train, what they'd done, they'd sent the actress called Ann Todd to a station further down the line and bought a two bob ticket one way to this station [chuckles] where she was going to get o[…]
[…]to say.One thing about the, the ACTT I would like to say, and this was and is my pet thing, was the pension scheme if I'm allowed to say this.Sure.In 1956 I came back from my first trip to Hollywood, I'd been in Mexico for seven months. And I was invited up to California to stay with a director I'd […]
BEHP transcript DisclaimerThis transcript has been produced automatically using Otter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-transcription/.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for[…]
[…]rdon when I finally got to know her after Far From The Madding Crowd said that will teach you leave those fucking classics alone, she said, wonderful actress. And there I was plunging into another American classic, Day Of The Locusts, one of the best novellas ever written about Hollywood Norman[…]
