Peter Lamont

[…] We’re messing around sending people up to here and there, they’ll never find it, let’s do what we want.” And we had a brilliant scenic artist called Brian Bishop, he painted a mountain backing in four colours, it was bloody photographic, and then in front of it we did some real model mountains. My […]

Philip Bonham-Carter

[…]use he’d just done the training course at Director’s school, to Verity [Lambert], who was the producer, so he got a couple of those to do. PB-C: Brian Gibson was another one. I shot a play with him, early on. And he went on to do absolutely amazing stuff. Stephen Frears, another one. All these […]

Eileen Diss

[…]an Academy Award nominated screenplay in 1941. ED: Quite a lot at Hampstead. I did The Hothouse there which was Harold, and I did Brian Friel’s39 Translations which is a lovely, lovely play and I've done quite a lot in the West End, the Tennessee Williams Sweet Bir[…]

Sheila Whitaker

[…]then came with the LFF with me. At one stage Wilf wanted her to do, if you remember when I left, I was taken on atSheila Whitaker Page 28the NFT Brian Baxter and Leslie were running the NFT, they wanted her to work with them, work with me on the Festival, and she said no.SF: Got to go to sleep […]

Hugh Attwooll

[…]d. And then said he got Greyfriars did I know the writer. Well, in the meantime, we he sort of seen a number of writers like jack Whittingham West be Brian Forbes, Tibbie Clark, and he suddenly produced Fullspeed ahead, Three lives of Thomasina Prince and the Pauper. JACK Whittingham did one four st[…]
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