[…]iss was the only American star that I can remember coming, which just gives youan idea of the hierarchy of the studios. We were mostly concerned with comedyRoy Fowler: Had Ted Black arrived yetMaurice Carter: Ted Black was there from the day I went there in 34Roy Fowler: My memory of Nine Days A Que[…]
[…] I was fourteen I went on tour with a musical comedy called 'The Marriage Market', playing a "biddy." And from […]
[…]th Mickey Rooney! Ha ha! 'Cause nobody wanted me anymore! I mean, that was that. Anyway, I remember when I was fourteen I went on tour with a musical comedy called 'The Marriage Market', playing a "biddy." And from then on I was an actor - a very bad one, by the way, I think - but I was an actor rig[…]
[…]ef assistant director and his one assistant. We did all that work. And on occasion, this was sometimes very difficult indeed. I mean, we never made a comedy. And then the location was in. We went to run David Goldstein, I went around to find the railway finally ended up in Hastings, which was very a[…]
[…]eer. Darrol Blake 8:00 Yes, but just before that started, you, it sounds as though you were in a nice little University of comedy writing or licenced statement writing and producing or were you in any way part of that creation? Or were you just employed as a performer?&nbs[…]
[…]t for your money?Eddie Dryhurst: Well we usually got the newsreel, which by then was a couple of issues old. The newsreel, a travel short, a two-reel comedy, the feature of course and maybe a second feature sometimes.Roy Fowler: Ah hmm. Any commercials at that stage, advertisements?Eddie Dryhurst: N[…]
[…] very anti establishment film and very socialist for like us in many ways but Bork and watered it down and watered it down until it was just a social comedy. But I think there's enough left of the original intention to make it worthwhile life.SPEAKER: M2Well it's a satire really isn't it. But it was[…]
[…]heavily. And, so, I had one of the, when I look back on it, funniest things said to me really, because, they did this shot which was in a one shot, a comedy sequence where it has Zero Mostel in it, and I think it was Zero or somebody fell down the stairs, and people were looking and things, and, but[…]
[…]m. But anyway, it was a very good experience for me; that was my first film. And then I did a film called Father’s Doing Fine (1952),[17] which was a comedy about families and that sort of thing, at Elstree, ABC.[18] And a very famous person as a director was also an actor: Richard Attenborough. He […]
[…]uff in the army, and he did a lot of research and everything. And then he started in Pune, then they decided that he should have a professional scriptwriter. And they took on Vulcan vilhelm does that name mean anything to Ross Campbell and was going to work with Humphrey on this. And then Humphrey c[…]
