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[…]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[…]
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[…]hat's a technical job is it?11:08  DMW: No. Thank you for the question.NS: Please explain, yes.DMW: This is the elitist snobbery thing about the British. The establishment. Had I been to the wrong interviewer, I would have become a Junior Programme Engineer doing the same job. But because appar[…]
[…]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 […]
[…]ric and out in Japan. And, after I had got my notice, after the amalgamation of HMV and Columbia, somebody said ‘D P Field’s at a studio called British and Dominion Forms out at Boreham Wood, Elstree, go and see him. I think he might find you a job’. I went out there to see him.&nb[…]
[…]omplain too much to me! I'm sure he disapproved most emphatically about it, but anyway they tolerated it. And so I was just sixteen when I started at British & Dominions at Elstree.Alan Lawson : How did you get the job?Gordon McCallum : By writing...that's all. My father did know somebody in the[…]
[…]times a week! [Chuckles] Roy Fowler: Yes. In those days what kind of comparison, as a filmgoer, did you make between the Hollywood films and the British films? Andy Worker: Well they were all good - in fact they were all better than they are today I think. And you know, one had favourites […]
[…]and we managed to get him in a uniform. So it was a most charming film, produced by Launder and Gilliat, the famous producers of many, many brilliant British films.[56] But we also did The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957),[57] an American production at MGM. Jennifer Jones[58] played Elizabeth Barre[…]
