Ronald Grant

[…]s transcript has been produced automatically using Otter.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[…]

Roy Fowler

[…]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 […]

Bernard Vorhaus

[…] world. I um...Sidney Cole: You made for London then, did you?Bernard Vorhaus: Yes. And I was offered a job as a production assistant for a company - British Talking Pictures - it was - it was an offshoot, they had Wembley Studios.Sidney Cole: That's right, I remember, yes.Bernard Vorhaus: And -Sidn[…]

Lord Lew Grade

[…] one of the most influential figures in the history of British television. Leaving school at 14, he entered the entertainment […]

Mel Faber

[…] manager of Columbia Pictures and was based in London. So, of course, he brought the family down and he stayed with them for a while, then he went to British Lion as assistant managing director to the late Sidney Myers, another character in the business, and then in his latter years of his career he[…]

John Brabourne (Knatchbull)

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Jan Zilliacus

[…] people thatI knew, people got bombed out came and stayed, in the end I was cooking for sixteen people .[30:48]Mm, oh.Because of course, not having a British father and mother in those, during the war youwouldn’t perhaps remember all this, you’re not old enough to but you had to have aBritish father[…]

Freddie Francis

[…]formation but information. And during this on one of my holidays I scrounged a visit to, I've forgotten the dear old publicity man's name, at Gaumont British in Lime Grove, can't remember his name, anyway I went and found the studio and there they were, they were shooting one of the Aldwych farces a[…]
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