[…] I said I quite keen on being an actress, I was quite keen on this and that, I like literature and so on. She said “My dear you should join the BBC.” So, I said “Oh alright.” “Well that seems to be reasonably close to the kind of ideas I have.” And she said “Well I’m a governor of […]
[…]ething.” This poor chap used to go and home, come back and you can imagine what [LAUGHTER]Although he was a great comedian, Hitchcock, he was a great director. And when he did the first ‘talkie’, Blackmail, you were talking about any post-synching going on, well there, Anny Ondra, I have a fee[…]
[…] particularly difficult to his then wife – DB: Which one was that, can you remember? PB-C: It was Elizabeth – she’d been married to Richard Harris. DB: Oh yes, oh yes. After Rachel Roberts. PB-C: That’s right, and she was very keen on his glass of champagne, or two, before lunch.[…]
[…]ry unhappily because I joined up because basically, I hated night bombing and wanted to be a fighter and shoot them down and found myself flying like bombers. I complained bitterly, and had a weekend under open arrest. When my squadron leader said, Well, I'm fine, it's up to you. You either have a g[…]
[…] yes, well the features department, the drama division let's call it that was run by Laurence Gilliam and I was simply posted to this division of the BBC. And I was I was there as it were to do whatever was wanted of me and I, amongst other things and unofficially, I became Val's, whom I knew person[…]
[…]ilm Unit, with Arthur Elton, as executive producer and all the well known names Peter Norman villain, Dennis Gala. And I worked with a man called Ron Harris. Yes, where I, one of the people I worked with was Roy Harris, who was a pioneer in those days because he was working on 16 millimetre. And of […]
[…]y was William Stratton. My father knew him, I think he'd been manager at HMV Recording Studios and he wasin charge of the contracts department at the BBC. He said they would very much like me to join the staff of the BBC. I asked what the job was and he said it's called assistant engineer. I said wh[…]
[…] it's like this, this angel is going up to heaven. And it's very Ken Russell ish. And I think on the basis for that film, he got his first job at the BBC. And another film that was extremely impressive was by Peter Wilkins, it was called forgotten faces. And it was about the uprising against the aga[…]
[…]levision. Well, interestingly, I we only had BBC One we didn't have and we then got BBC Two when it started. And so the only thing we could watch was BBC. And I got really into at a young age, the Wednesday plays and play for today. And I saw, I saw Kathy come home, going out, when it went out, wher[…]
[…]is an old fuss-pot but he is Very good.Alan Lawson: Is he an artist's director or a technician's director?Freddie Francis: He is definitely an artist director. He's fine. Anyway after French Lieutenant's Woman, I went over to you to Utah and did The Executioner's SongAlan Lawson: Can we come back to[…]
