[…]oy Fowler: Yes, A Man For All Seasons.E.M. Smedley-Aston: Man For All Seasons. Peter got the Director's Guild Hollywood Assistant Directors Award for it. And he was a great guy and he was very showbusiness because his father gad been a comedian on the northern circuit. In those days everyt[…]
[…].Alan Lawson : Yes.Gordon McCallum : And so I got, I suppose, relatively just as much kick out of the success of that film, although I didn't get any awards, but it won awards - best picture and writing and oh, I think one or two other awards, you know. And great success for David and so on. So I wa[…]
[…];My father was, as described in various ways on the birth certificates of the four children in the family as naval pensioner, amongst other things, I forgotten what the others were. And my mother was the daughter of a country family in Scotland who subsequently came down to England to live with a br[…]
[…]r met one. But I knew they existed because I read about them in books. So as soon as I got to be about 16, I just went off into Buenos Aires, looking for artists until I found some.Martin Spence 4:12 And what happened then?Martin Spence 4:15 Was that with your family's suppor[…]
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[…] got in with them.Bob Allen: I see. And also because 'Goodbye, Mr. Chips', I think - didn't that get - it was nominated if it didn't get - an Academy Award for sound...Mickey Hickey: That was Donat, wasn't it?Bob Allen: Yes.Mickey Hickey: Well I did the other 'Chips', the one with Peter O'Toole.Bob […]
[…]cularly good actor but he was a good director. (Time 10:57 ) [Pause]MIKE DICK: You went on to win a RADA award then. PETE MURRAY: Yes, I wasn’t intended to, it was intended to go to the girl who played St. Joan. I was playing Dunois in t[…]
[…]er he was very good, he was a very good plumber and he was very good technically and eventually he got involved in the early days of polythene piping for nuclear installations, for laboratories, for industrial plants, for that sort of thing, extractive piping and became a manager in a big chemical p[…]
[…]t the next morning on an internal flight up to Durango and we went down to the bar.And it is true. It was the night of the American Academy Awards and this guy sitting in the bar having a drink with another American and I’m sitting next to him and … he said to me “what are you doing?” and […]
[…]d to another council estate. But left school 1950. I had two years’ training with the GPO as a telephone engineer, then went into the RAF for two years’ national service, 1952 – 54, and when I came out I went back to the GPO until 1957 when I joined the BBC as a Technical Operator in Oct[…]
