[…]amatic society and Hazel appeared in nearly everything in that, she was always the lead and she was very good as an actress, especially in light comedy and sitcoms. But she got a scholarship to RADA and turned it down. I can never remember why. I was incensed with rage, I was so upset I was nea[…]
[…]m and a serious play. And he said, I sat down one weekend and wrote it all over one weekend and it came out funny. I had no intention of ever being a comedy at all, but it became a marvellous comedy. So lies I'm became CO production manager with a chap called Syd Streeter STR weta er, who had been a[…]
[…]SC: No. DM: No? So what did you in fact play? What was the biggest part you played at Cambridge? Can you remember? DM: Minnie Williams in A Comedy of Good and Evil. By Richard Hughes, who wrote High Wind in Jamaica. And I played that afterwards at the Gate, at the Arts, on television, I pl[…]
[…] sure this guy is a brilliant editor, but a British comedy - is it right for a Yugoslavian?" This is […]
[…] at Cambridge? Can you remember? DM: Minnie Williams in A Comedy of Good and Evil. By Richard Hughes, who wrote […]
[…]ristmas success and I hadn't seen it then but everybody was raving about it. And I said, "Look I'm sure this guy is a brilliant editor, but a British comedy - is it right for a Yugoslavian?" This is it. But Ozzy was fantastic because now and again Frank got carried away with certain sequences where […]
[…] twin brother. My older brother was born in Rome before we were and I think possibly the first thing we we did professionally was a production of the comedy of errors in which my twin brother and I played one pair of twins that Romeo's which were my first was my first experience of acting or Shakesp[…]
[…]ur times a day: I’d get a bus and I go to – well I’d get the first edition from Bouverie Street, and the van used to drop me at the stage door of the Comedy Theatre, Panton Street. Then I’d have to return there three or four times a day to pick up the other editions, and that’s how it all began on t[…]
[…] on that show, I think was when Barry Humphries was starting, with his Edna Everage, and Mike Palin, Terry Jones were doing their first little films, comedy films, so, although while the old were waning out like Fortune and Bird, and all that - were sort-of now being a little over-familiar, these ne[…]
[…]ras round on to three guysbehind a glass sheet, and they had to talk, until we told them to stop. There were other programmes,we produced a situation comedy, we produced two or three documentaries that went on for somelength of time but it was a hand to mouth existence, we didn’t really have network[…]
