Harry Coventry

[…]se the cameras might stop people going to the match, and the thought that it would be out later on, on television in the evening might meant that the crowd might be half the number that turned up at Anfield. That's what the FA were dreading. In fact, we turned up, we kept it down. Everyone when we t[…]

Evangeline Harrison

[…]anything like that… and also did fittings. Then there was the costume designer and their assistant and that was it, and then we got in extra help for crowd work and we managed perfectly well. I think it’s much bigger now. The assistant was either somebody that you loved, or somebody that was useless[…]

Robert Scott

[…]t was spooling. I: You couldn't see the pictures? R: No. So if you were looking for something, if you spooled it slowly, you could hear the crowd noise going up and down and then run it back a bit and then roll it up and it would take five, six seconds to lock it up to a stable picture and[…]

Clyde Jeavons

[…] the gents cloakroom. It was the only room big enough outside the hall. So, there was a kind of table shaped like this [indicates shape] and everyone crowded in to meet Orson, and Orson sat at the top. And he played host to all these people. He was lovely to everybody – absolutely lovely. Puttnam wa[…]

Joe McGrath

[…]ted to do. And never any problem- you know when I came out the army after having been in the army - er - being in the Combined Services Entertainment Crowd in Malaya - which - which Peter Nichols wrote a play about later, as you know, well I met Stanley Baxter and Kenneth, Kenneth Williams - met the[…]

Peter Graham Scott

[…]cheapo. But it was good experience I think, at least I was handling actors, because the actors I had were not good actors, they were just practically crowd artists y’know, who didn’t respond to direction at all, and didn’t – you know, it was useless talking about motivation or anything like that, bu[…]

Ernest Maxin

[…] set in and as much as I missed being in front of an audience, So when I was I left school at 16 and I then decided that I had to get in front of the crowd again so I tried to get a job in repertory Linda Wood  9:33   So were you still  playing  pian[…]
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