[…]wful and I kept it going for ten episodes. So I was paid to direct the film. When I'd done all ten episodes, which I may say, this film has won eight awards world-wide, and Frank Godwin will verify this, they had a hundred and eighty four pounds left in the budget, so I got eighteen pound forty per […]
[…]oon that you're working late that night, and that was it. Your food was laid on and the food was laid? Yes, yes, they organised some food, but it was award terribly crude. And if it was a good production, the food was alright if it was a bad production, like, for example, Mother Riley, it was sandwi[…]
[…]oon that you're working late that night, and that was it. Your food was laid on and the food was laid? Yes, yes, they organised some food, but it was award terribly crude. And if it was a good production, the food was alright if it was a bad production, like, for example, Mother Riley, it was sandwi[…]
[…]ery early in life, very early. And there was a big family law suite and they bought him out of the family business. He didn't do anything after about forty.Roy Fowler: Oh, what a lucky man!Vernon Sewell: Yes, he was. [Chuckling]Roy Fowler: What was the family business? Out of curiosit[…]
[…] a large family, nine children. You had to be in, in these old, it was only an ordinary council school and you had to be in what they called X7 for six months before you could take this exam, which was a called a labour exam. I still have the thing upstairs. If you passed this exam[…]
[…]52MW: Was this linked with This Film is Dangerous? CJ: That came out of it, yes.MW: That came out of it and that got the Krasner-Krauz award, or one of those-CJ: It did indeed. Well Roger and Cathy [Surowiec] should be eternally thanked for that. Extraordinary. Wonderful. And it […]
[…]ilm, his bits and we did 6 of those. And it was very successful so we did 7. And because it was so different I got what was the equivalent of a BAFTA award and so did Stanley. It was very successful.John Taylor: What was the show called.Jimmy Gilbert: On the bright side and that was really the first[…]
[…] permission of the BECTU History Project (http://www.historyproject.org.uk/). Copyright of interview material is vested in the BECTU History Project (formerly the ACTT History Project) and the right to publish some excerpts may not be allowed.BECTU History Project Interview no: 340 Interviewee: Jan […]
[…]ly using Otter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-transcription/.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 BE[…]
