Dicky Leeman

[…] Leeman: Right. Rodney Giesler: You were telling me about recruiting crowd artists and so on. Dicky Leeman: Yes. And I can […]

Dicky Leeman

[…] from Lancashire I believe. And he was married to a well-known West End star called Marie Burke. I don't remember a lot about it, except I was in the crowd as one of the sort of peasants in it.Rodney Giesler: One of the first sound films was it?Dicky Leeman: No, there'd been sound for some time on t[…]

John Shirley

[…] in the evening standard one night about the scene in the subway, where it was still got cockfosters up on the train. Well, to anybody down the other crowd that was seeing it. This is where the story came from. And it's quite true. You could see in shots where it was, you know, it wasn't changed. It[…]

John L Hargreaves

[…]s sort of a non cost as it were and you would that you would then say Well, look, we spent 1000 pounds. Yes, today on normal, everyday items, but the crowd which you then took as an actual game to 1000 pounds. Because it was a big crowd day. The next day, the salaries would be at 1000 pounds again, […]

Teddy Darvas

[…]course, that she became London Film's Casting Director and she was Casting Director till about the year after Alex died and she basically she did the crowd casting and she was the sweetest woman - she had a job for life - she was absolutely lovely. The other story Lew Thornburn told was the premiere[…]

Patrick (Paddy) Carey

[…] collected us I think drove us down. We shot at sort of checkpoints, not actual checkpoints, but a barrier where the police stopped us. And there was crowds all along the route and so on. And then suddenly the crowd parted was polluted folding the back and we were full, you know, and we had a great […]

Val Guest

[…]each other and I thought ‘Christ of all times to have two pictures on…I’d give anything for one to be on only so that you’re not pulling each other’s crowds.’RF: This was a time when you could walk down from Piccadilly Circus to Leicester Square and see quite a lot of British films on the marquees, […]

Howard Lanning

[…] what would happen to in addition to the feature film we did thirty six, half hour matches of all the games And for the main feature, we did a lot of crowd seeing big close up of crowds, you know, of, of individuals a shot in Germany. So we had no, we gave a name to a close up, if you fix issues, yo[…]

Phyllis Dalton

[…]Well, what you usually do, you’ve probably got a basic staff of three or four people andthen you have extra daily staff in if you’ve got a really big crowd that’s got to be got onthe set by half past eight or so.And do you also from time to time go to people like Berman’s and so on to hire in...Phyl[…]

Dennis Main Wilson

[…]be was in an army concert party with Spike Milligan and all that kind of thing. Peter Sellers, God, Peter Sellers, Benny Hill, Graham Stark, all that crowd were going around the world entertaining in RAF camps. They were in RAF Gang Shows. So there was the Windmill because they all came out determin[…]
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