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[…]) 1.15.07 -                      My company, Brook Productions, one of the first to get commission from Channel 4. I put list of twelve ideas to Liz Forgan, Director of Programmes. She commission[…]

[…]a man called Tony Brignell whom they brought in from Colet Dickinson & Pearce and Tony was rather like I suspect John Burt is totally humourless, brooking no denial or no discussion he saw things only one way whatsoever and he gave the authority to the writers and the art directors. Well if ther[…]

[…]got the rights off Nick Ray. I suspect that Nick Ray owed him money, and he spent a lot of time trying to set it up. We eventually set it up with Mel Brooks. Mel Brook's thought he owed me a favour after Elephant Man and so he set it up and off we went. It wasn't a bad little film.Alan Lawson: Then […]

[…]nd he just couldn't have been more wrong, as the went. I'd only been there for two years and I was asked to do something which would be now but Brain Brook who ran a theatre in Johannesburg asked me to go out and redirect Grab me a Gondola in Johannesburg which one never thought twice about then, it[…]

[…]l.RENÉE GLYNNE: British National. And at that point, Douglas Fairbanks, Junior had the studio. And this must have been maybe for his series and Peter Brook directed it. What a coup. (TIME 37.02) And Paul, lovely Paul actor, Schofield and all sorts of people in it. Lovely experience. Rehearsals befor[…]

[…]rty is still putting. Genius. We have a series to do. And my scriptwriters are Marty Feldman and Barry Took, John Cleese and Graham Chapman. Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden. Mike Palin and Terry Jones, all kids. How is that for talent? And the material we had I cannot tell you. There had ne[…]

[…]er-in-law and my father-in-law, they lived in Gordon Square you see and the were part of the Bloomsbury Set, you know, Helen Wilkinson and, and Elder Brooks [ph 21:50] and all that, they were all so vain, and they really thought of themselves as if they were something out, outside, you know, and...R[…]

[…] he involved in that particularly or was it all Peter Brook’s? No, I was involved, I was, I was on […]

[…]eter O’Toole and Richard Burton wasn’t it?Phyllis Dalton Page 30Yeah, yeah. Then there was Lord Jim, which we did in Cambodia, with Richard Brooks directing. That was not bad costume-wise, but it wasn’t a very good film, I’m afraid. It was odd actually, because Peter O’Toole was in that an[…]

[…]at public schoolboys were working in the film industry and all that sort of thing.I Can I just interrupt a moment, with Beggar’s Opera that was Peter Brook directing. Why was there such a disaster then do you think?PH Peter Brook had no idea what he what he was doing and he resented any .....it was […]