Virginia McKenna

[…]families and that sort of thing, at Elstree, ABC.[18] And a very famous person as a director was also an actor: Richard Attenborough. He was in that, Brian Worth, Heather Stannard [Thatcher], all sorts of amazing people.[19] I did that, but I didn’t play the part I wanted to. I wanted to play the pa[…]

Phyllis Dalton

[…]you know, which is quite rewarding.But that’s interesting, you’ve clothed both Queens.Phyllis Dalton Page 39Yes, yes. Then you get somebody like Brian Blessed taking the mickey out of everyone, teasing everyone and telling them they look awful. Anyway, after Voyage of the Damnedthere was&n[…]

Joy Cuff (née Seddon)

[…] 0:18:23.9 MIKE: So happy memories there? 0:18:25.6 JOY: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, I mean, there was lots and lots of young people. I met Brian Johnson there and Brian Loftus who I... 0:18:36.6 MIKE: Describe their role there then. 0:04:17.2 JOY: Well, Brian Johnson was working[…]

Philip Donnellan

[…] programme which were entirely legitimate and entirely improved its value as a as a piece of filmmaking. The next stage was that it should be seen by Brian Wenham, who was the Controller of BBC Two an ex-current affairs man who had been Controller of BBC Two for about a year perhaps, and with whom e[…]

Michael Houldey

[…]eaker  7:17  And the next thing after working with Antara was that I went to another touching room where it's working for a producer called Brian Lewis. And Brian Lewis is the second of my people of my people have really influenced me, he come up from Southern Television to make documentar[…]

Norman Spencer

[…]y. We don't literally kill them. I mean, it's, it's like a it's the size of a grand piano but about five times the weight. You know, that happened on Brian's ferry. The other thing on it was we had the act of court, Stewart Granger. Now he had to ride a horse quite a lot in the film. And he had to h[…]

Harry Miller

[…]: Well the only thing that I Claudius did was when they, they stopped production, didn’t they?   And whatshisname, the big actor …ALAN LAWSON: O’Brian and Laughton.HARRY MILLER: Laughton was playing it and they stopped production, it was cancelled.   Everyone thought that Alex had stopped […]

Waris Hussein

[…]t cast three different stages and the age with this disability". I said to the producers - oh, and it was the BFI in those days. His name was Gibson, Brian Gibson, or Bill Gibson. Was it Brian? (Yes). He ran the BFI. And I went to him and I said, "Look, I'm going to take a huge step here. Remember a[…]

Pat Jackson

[…]appalling. The other was something on the Dauphin [NB 'Dangerous Exile'] with Belinda Lee, which I thought was absolutely terrible! Which was made by Brian Desmond Hurst and was another ghastly flop! Both were ghastly flops!John Legard: I don't remember those.Pat Jackson: ...commercially too. But, b[…]
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