Leonard Harris

[…] a fellow named - I think he's been an assistant director, but he was assistant studio manager, Frank Covern or […]

Leonard (Len) Harris

[…]you in tomorrow," you know and you'd have to come in - all in the pound. I got, let's see - there was a fellow named - I think he's been an assistant director, but he was assistant studio manager, Frank Covern or Frank Cohen as he was then. He's a very nice bloke and I think he's still around in the[…]

Lois Singer

[…]ong term permanent job as a secretary to the headmistress of a girl's private school. And when the headmistress retired, and the school closed, I was casting about for what to do next. And that was when I began in the theatre. And very soon afterwards started my career in the BBC.  Joyce R[…]

Pat Jackson

[…] I mean you had devoted so much time to this casting, which was well worth it. It was the only […]

Pat Jackson

[…] I mean you had devoted so much time to this casting, which was well worth it. It was the only […]

John Krish

[…]o wrote Funny Girl and I showed it to him and he thought it was an absolute delight, and I knew that I'd got something good. Jenia Reissar, who was a casting director for Romulus, kept a copy of it in her desk she told me, because she thought it was the best script she had ever read. Comedy - Englis[…]

Pat Jackson

[…]n, what is it you want me to talk about?" And so Grierson said, "Well, I think, Mr Shaw, if you could give us your impressions of what you think broadcasting is all about and the effect it's having..." He said, "I understand, yes." And he got up on this rostrum, there was a little set with the camer[…]

Madeline Smith

[…]no part of any of this. They divorced. She then married Stuart Lions, and started living the grand life. Stuart lands was an in unbelievably handsome casting director and then later producer for 20th Century Fox. And I mean, he was a beautiful man. Joan meantime, has peroxided her hair and and tried[…]

John Schlesinger

[…]ohn Schlesinger: I remember going to that, it was the first theatre my father ever took me to and I was crazy about magic, still am. It was near Broadcasting House I think it was near where the Queen's Hall is. Or was. Alan Lawson: That's right, it was just below there. John Schlesinger: W[…]

Donald Wilson

[…]king with, and we got to work on a script we'd already been talking about, you know, and see how far we'd get. Then we probably have a session with a director who's going to direct that particular film, and so on, and it just kept getting busier. But I stayed very, very short time. I was very, very […]
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