[…]: 18th August 1988.SIDE 1, TAPE 1Roy Fowler: You've been in this country 50 years now.Robert Beatty: More now, I came over in 1937. I went to Toronto for a year and in 1939 1 got a job understudying Ray Massey and walk on in Idiot's Delight, that ran till the end of ‘38, then I went back to Canada t[…]
[…]sts and he came down and saw the rushes and he was extremely happy. That was fine and so we made this film with Henry Moore which in fact got an award at the Venice Film Festival, I'm saying the film itself not the photography. That was a great experience that. Then after that because one decid[…]
[…]d in 1952 and STV started in 1957 and I can remember arriving in Paisley to do a show with Jack Milroy and I originally came to work with Jack Milroy for five weeks only as an experiment to see whether we got on well or not and I was acting as a feed to him and became a comedy feed, in other words a[…]
[…]s soon as he came in the door was clearly very talented, very able, very enthusiastic but capable. He delivered on what he promised, won a Journalism award and we didn't offer him, we should have said, "Right, tie this lad down!" and we didn't and we lost him and he went to ITV. So, I think you need[…]
[…] 5Tape 17Michaela Denis and their film series was called On Safari and I think about two years previously to that they had won the BBC award for the best factual programme, probably in 1956 or 4 or something like that. Although television in those days was only black and white and it […]
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[…]something of a disciplinarian. He had been a don in Cambridge, in Anglo Saxon, and he got fed up with privilege, I think really. And he thought the Oxford and Cambridge system was a hotbed of privilege and he couldn't stand being a don anymore and he took this job and he brought order to a rather re[…]
[…] 1887, and I wonder if you can tell us something about your early days.Maurice Elvey : I will, but I don't like to remember them very much. I try and forget, but I suppose the experiences I underwent formed me, for good or ill. I never went to school. My early life, my young life, my childhood life,[…]
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