[…]hristmas production that they did one year, I can't remember which year "1066 and All That" in which Russell Waters, who was a very well known actor, comedy actor, I think, played the lead, the common man in 1066. And all these names I've mentioned, and many, many other guests came and the show ran […]
[…]umont's and started directing on his own. But I think that was us it was always Herbert Wilcox that was directing it. 'Thark', that's another Aldwych comedy that we did.Rodney Giesler : Sorry - what was that?L.P. Williams : 'Thark'Rodney Giesler : Oh 'Thark'. Do you have any particular memories of T[…]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 280[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2002-05-02Interview Date: 1993-04-28Interviewer: Linda WoodInterviewee: Anthony MendlesonTape 1, Side 1Linda Wood : Anthony Mendleson, Side One, Tape One. Can you tell us where and when you born?Anthony Mendleson : Yes I c[…]
[…] Now after "Thirty Nine Steps", "King of the Damned". Walter Forde directed itPeter Birch : Walter Forde directed, and his wifeAlan Lawson : He was a comedy manPeter Birch : That's right, yes, "King of the Damned", I remember that.Alan Lawson : Noah Beery and Helen Vinson. That was a strange mixture[…]
[…]out? We didn't know what an alternative wireless program might be like so there was no question that it was it was funny although we didn't listen to comedy very much but then we didn't listen to anything serious very much – music, Leonardo and his orchestra, Harry Engelman and his players.Colin Mof[…]
[…]Frank Launder and...Am I being stupid?No, no, no, no, not at all, no, no.Launder and Gilliat I did some with, what did they do? That was something, a comedy. Oh I do, I do remember, I did, the girls, what was it, the girls school, what was it called?[40:07]Elisabeth Furse DRAFT Tape 2 Side A102St Tr[…]
[…]sp; this isn't what we come to the cinema to see.And I think that after it Memorial did a picture by Bill Norton with James Mason, a sort of regional comedy but anyway I remember Michael saying it did better than If.... So If... is a picture of reputation. It did well in a limited way abroad, it did[…]
[…]h the BBC we got the BBC to put money into this story about two Welsh comedy requires some dumb. And it went out on BBC Two I think yes it was&nb[…]
