[…]bvious reasons. So none of this emerged at all. And of course it gave particular emphasis when one did know it to the latter years of my work in broadcasting because of that acute sense of tension generated by the events in the north of Ireland and the acute tension which resulted between England an[…]
Peggy Gick (art director/production designer) b.1911 by admin — last modified Jul 27, 2008 02:13 PM BIOGRAPHY: Peggy Gick trained […]
[…] Unknown Speaker 3:37 So... Darrol Blake 3:38 Your mother, I believe was involved in broadcasting or acting. Waris Hussein 3:42 Indeed ,my mother was more than just that. She (and I'm very proud t[…]
[…]It was a thing that if you left the country. And I know I had great heart burnings over it, but I turned it down.Roy Fowler: Harold Huth, was he casting director? How was he involved in The Citadel ?Joan Kemp-Welch: No, he was a, sort of, head of the studios or, manager of the studios.Roy […]
[…]… basically I mean I was never in any discussions with anybody but he’d see rushes and, you know and he’d have quite a lot of say in the rushes about casting and all this sort of thing. Peter Hunt used to have a go at all the pictures at that stage and then they gave him one to direct. C[…]
[…]ll, from there, I went to Burndept, which was another radio manufacturer, manufacturing concern, one of the founder companies of the old British Broadcasting Company. And then in turn I went to 'Experimental Wireless', which was one of the first serious radio journals, by which I mean it became 'The[…]
[…] then, I mean, we're now talking about 1945 and the beginning of 46 the boys were coming back, and they had asked me to become a small part and crowd casting director, because the film artists Association, which was the crowd artist union, was getting stronger, and they had started and inaugurated v[…]
[…] down over Friday night and Saturday morning. You had the casting had got one at the same time so the […]
[…]less name, yeah, from Korda days.Peggy Gick: He was doing it with Bergman. And there was a film called [Abdul the Grand']...[Johnny Mead] was the art director, and there was another film...John Legard: Who was the art director?Peggy Gick: [Johnny Mead].John Legard: [Mead]...Peggy Gick: He was very g[…]
[…]ill at the Citizen's then. But I left the company as such in the early part of 51, just before I got married, I went freelance and started to do broadcasting with BBC Scotland as an actor and still writing lyrics and music where I could and hoping to get jobs as an actor. I still wasn't sure in what[…]
