[…]otte Jennings  0:39   I was born in Blackheath, London in August of 1935.Alan Lawson  0:47  Now,did you have any schooling before you were evacuated?Charlotte Jennings  0:53  Not that I can really remember, although, obviously was some kindergarten year. But yeah, […]
[…]bsp;0:42  I was when born in Windsor Berkshire on the 26th of November 1927, while my father was a physician, was working at a clinic in Windsor forest. And so I've spent the first five years there. And then we moved to Godalming in Surrey, where he was in general practice. I know that. What ab[…]
[…]usiness of when and where you were born, just to get going.Philip Leacock: I was actually born in London, in Ealing I think. But this was not my home for a while because my parents lived in the Canary Islands and so we were brought up like many people, we went to boarding school over here but our ho[…]
[…]lcox. Neo Jackson. I was born in Bolton in the Northwest on the 12th of April 1958. And nationality. You're British? Yeah. Okay. And have you won any awards in your your long career? Well, I was part of the team that won a special craft BAFTA for spring watch in 2011. I also won the team award. Well[…]
[…]im how, how did he, why, why had he come in to television, had he written something? And he said no, he’d written a book of short stories he’d won an award for, Somerset Maugham Award called Tomato Cain and apparently Michael Barry had read it and thought from it that he could see this man knew some[…]
[…] nothing that you'd like I don't think at the moment. The only thing we've got is a chap in motion pictures who wants an assistant". And I said "Well for heaven's sakes, that's exactly the sort of job that I asked you to look for!" "Oh" they said, "alright well anyhow here's the address, Stoll Studi[…]
[…]hen I did a film I liked very much, called Hand in Hand. For Columbia. And it was a simple little film but I was very, very pleased. And it won eight awards. What they were I don’t know because the producer woman took them all to America with her and died. I haven’t been able to find them, because o[…]
[…]lywood Oscar in 1939 for the sound recording on Goodbye Mr Chips which starred Robert Donat and I think it was the first British film to achieve this award.Peter Musgrave: Western Electric came from America. Where did Visatone come from?John Aldred: Visatone was manufactured in England by Marconi to[…]
[…]as that for?And, well, that was coming up to Fifty..., coming up to 1955, it would have been my ten year bonus.Ah, ha. Ah ha.And then I got a special award in 1962 from Stuart Hood signing a letter.Ah, ha.And I wrote the PA guides and got some money and a letter from Huw Wheldon.Yes, yes.And then I […]
[…]hard, where and when were you born.DB: I was born in Hull in 1916 and brought down to London at an earlyage, about 3 or 4, where I've been ever since for which I'm dulygrateful because if I'd been kept up there I would never have entered thefilm industry.AG: What kind of schooling did you receive?DB[…]
