[…]ctor who ever lived.  One would be there on the set and listen to him, a Hungarian who was not very good at English giving line readings to British actors, you know it was a bit of a revelation and they would look at him but they did do their best.  I don’t know if you know much […]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 381 The Copyright of this interview with Larry Allen is the copyright of the British Entertainment History Project. To use contach the Secretary Sue Malden sue.malden@btinternet.com  Transcription Date: 2002-07-08Interview Date: 1996-04-11&nb[…]
[…] as a young Jewish kid felt quite persecuted at school. They would institute things like let's chase Schlesinger, it was a sort of pogrom. I mean the British have been nothing if not anti Semitic I think tradtionally. And I remember the sort of interest in German expressionist films at that tim[…]
[…] My type of person with sound experience was the only type of person they could apply to to run their sound department at its inception, so I ran the British Instructional Films at Welwyn. And after I think about two years with them, the Sound Chief of Gaumont, George Gunn, he asked me if I would ca[…]
[…]arles Wilder: Yes. I did that one, that was at Shepperton. I did most of the films at Shepperton. Because I was partly under an agreement to work for British Lion at one time but Maurice Ostrer wouldn't - I was still working for the Ostrers and he wouldn't sign the agreement so I just carried on wit[…]
