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[…] would be somewhere else on a different scene with a crowd of several thousand. And you had to put all […]

Winston (Wyn) Ryder

[…]’t the trouble taken I think, and we made, stupidly, we had two pictures going at once. Were you there when we were doing Cleopatra and Henry V? Vast crowds. Rationing. You couldn’t – oh almost fights in the canteen because they couldn’t get food, and the technicians went in ahead of them.RF: I don’[…]

Rodney Giesler

[…] Hudsmith. He went out to Canada eventually. And then there was Charles Frank there doing a film on the July Plot against Hitler. Anyhow that was the crowd there. It had just become a smoking area, the cutting room. Nitrate had gone out, and I remember Ralph Elton who was working there as a director[…]

Charles Wilder

[…] of course I met all the then contract artists and that sort of thing at that time, and then gradually um...John Taylor: Did you pay the wages to the crowd artists and so on?Charles Wilder: Yes, yes.John Taylor: Well tell us about that.Charles Wilder: A guinea a day, the crowd artists were in those […]

Harry Fowler

[…]use my eyes and all that, and because he was such a great director, everyone-Jean Kent’s [BEHP Interview No 549] first film, she was virtually in the crowd, saying two lines, and very good she was even with two lines and a lot of people were in it: James Robertson Justice, these great, bigger than l[…]

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[…]

Edward Dryhurst

[…]n't think even to this day what made me do it, I should have known better. I joined one scene in the rushes upside down, and when they went on into a crowded theatre - Mr Baggot very much in evidence - this scene came on and all hell was let loose! Baggot raised hell, he created such a row I can hea[…]

John Ammonds

[…]e me and Johnny Simmons shows with Mr. Music with big bands like Ron Goodwin which I enjoyed immensely. And a series called something like "Three's a Crowd". (The show was called "Treble Chance" It was first broadcast on the 23rd July 1953- MD) One of those three with Jimmy Young. Who else was it?&n[…]
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