Hugh Stewart

[…] quota productions. He also gained experience with John Dighton writing comedy scripts for Naughton and Gold shorts. During the late […]

Hazel Allen

[…]ad this and/or other interviews. If you want to help, please contact BEHP Secretary,  sue.malden@btinternet.com.Unknown Speaker  0:10  comedy on video, we,Unknown Speaker  0:12   the copyright of this recording is invested in the actt History Project more rights are res[…]

Vernon Sewell

[…]ncle called Archibald Nettlefold...Roy Fowler: Yes...Vernon Sewell: ...who owned Nettlefold studios, and Kay's Laboratory, and he owned the Comedy Theatre as well.Roy Fowler: Yes.Vernon Sewell: And it was through him I got into the movies. I started as a sound recordingengineer.R[…]

Pamela Mann-Francis (nee Mann)

[…]retary in the publicity department. Yes, general dogs body, that's right. And we had unit publicists. Then one of them was Norman Hudis, who became a writer. I think he actually wrote... or was involved in some of those comedies at Pinewood, I'm not sure. I think he did do. I was just trying to thin[…]

Wendy Toye

[…]h other’s throats, because they're not sympathetic with the way each other work. And it’s quite a business doing that.After the workshop, I’m doing a comedy at the Watermill called The Drummer and I’ll do the same with that. I’ll get the cast altogether before we actually start rehearsing. Did I tel[…]

Lindsay Anderson

[…]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[…]

Maxwell Setton

[…]nbsp;yes. She made. Quite a bit of brilliant I mean she she is a wonderful comedy actress. Has she ever done comedy made her career because he was so young[…]

Hugh Stewart

[…]early days of films, nobody knows anything but Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Charlie Chaplin, The Keystone Kops, Laurel and Hardy... And to me, silent comedy was an absolute dream! And I liked the idea of creating scripts out of nothing, just an idea and thinking purely in terms of visuals. Well ther[…]

Philip Leacock

[…]orts. And then when the boys start dating, he finds he's no longer included in the gang and gets very, very upset. And - it's got quite a lot of nice comedy in it - and goes off and is made fun of by three hookers and has a little affair with Ruby Dee who, I don't know if you know, the black actors […]
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