[…]d she had - amongst many of her clients - she had a lady whose husband happened to be at that time the general sales manager of a film company called British Lion Film Corporation. And Sidney Myers was looking, or somebody within British Lion was looking for some young blood, and Mrs Myers happened […]
[…]tter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-transcription/.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for any misinterpretation of the content of this interview.However, the BEHP wants t[…]
[…] Aug 25, 2008 11:11 PM BIOGRAPHY: Charles Bennett was a British writer, director and sometime actor most famous for his […]
[…]plays.VG: That came later in my teens when I went into, I went on stage to start with and then I did odd things in films for Warner Brothers and BIP [British International Pictures] and I worked a lot with Lupino Lane.RF: Just to wrap up on school did you have any encouragement on writing there.&nbs[…]
[…]k probably you are right. But can I just say that to start as it were in the middle, as I think you know, he was knighted in 1947 for services to the British film industry during the war. He was also a Knight First Class of the Order of St. Olaf, Norway, which he and Charlie Frend acquired I think b[…]
[…] Smedley Aston entered the film industry as a runner at British International Pictures in 1932. Throughout the 1930s he worked […]
[…] In December 1940, S G Rayment, the editor of the British trade publication the Kine Yearbook, noted ‘a certain interesting […]
[…]fax: Gentleman, which was a famous book by a woman named Mrs. Craik. I played John Halifax when young, and a guy named Fred Paul, who was by way of a British film star, played him when he was older. So I was in films, I'd forgotten that, yes! But I don't think I was quite up there with Mickey Rooney[…]
[…] of films there. Then I went back to...er Elstree, to British National...er, back to er...[sneezes]'scuse me, errm...Yes I finished Sound […]
[…] been made up to Assistant, so Paul was...Paul was er focus pulling...Errm... and I did a couple of films there. Then I went back to...er Elstree, to British National...er, back to er...[sneezes]'scuse me, errm...Yes I finished Sound City, then I went back to Elstree, cos Jimmy had moved during the […]
