[…]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[…]
[…]gaged to somebody I’d met in London early in the war and he was an airman, I mean he was an air officer and he was in Cairo and he was a navigator on bombers, and at that time he’d been taken off active, he was not very young, I mean he was older than some of them, and put on to training and I had a[…]
[…] he was in Cairo and he was a navigator on bombers, and at that time he’d been taken off active, […]
[…] as it were, as an as an actor, and behind the scenes doing all sorts of things. And it got on the on my end of turn, reporter would like to join the BBC. No, I never read that. So when I actually went to law gave this to whoever was interviewing me at the time. So it was sort of helpful, wasn't it?[…]
[…]n newspapers. And we were bombed – not our house, but we were blitzed in Cardiff, and my father decided that he would not expose his family to German bombers, and so he moved to Plymouth. In retrospect that was probably not a wise move because the Heinkels and the Dauniers could also reach Plymouth.[…]
[…]nior position?Michael Aldridge 3:27 Yes, they did. Well, I worked mainly in news and current affairs in The Grove when I started with the BBC. I didn't spend much time at Ealing, it was mainly at The Grove. And then from The Grove, I went to Bristol and joined their film unit, which alth[…]
[…]he Orient Express with Sidney Lumet for whom I have enormous respect, a wonderfully technical director and very good with actors as well, the perfect director. One of the perfect types of directors. We had in the early weeks of that picture The Murder on the Orient Express we had a lot of criticism […]
[…]: which I suppose he did with his tongue in his cheek like Henry.CC: I don’t think that was tongue in cheek. I think Alex really should have stayed a director.SC: Tell me about Elephant Boy. I remember you telling stories about Zolly trying to get as many pieces of elephants, in the cutting round sc[…]
[…]k away from it so that the journalist could do the questions without corpsing. There was one quite famous journalist now, Sally McNair, who works for BBC. She was a Reporter on Scottish Television and she was prone to giggle and I remember filming her doing a piece to camera and I had to put my coat[…]
[…]nger you see, "He should trust me! I won't do this, will never tolerate him again," and so on. So there wasn't anything to do - I had to find another director. So I did, and I got Bob Asher. I was very sorry about the business about Paddy but there was no other way. So I got Bob Asher and we made a […]
