Daphne Shadwell

[…]didn’t endear me to him and he said, ‘No, not like a light entertainment programme, we’re going to do this’. And it was he who instigated that he got David Frost in and I did the first programme with David Frost called the Twist programme. We did a little light entertainment show abou[…]

Gordon McCallum

[…] Second World War he worked with both Michael Powell and David Lean on some of their most celebrated films. Between […]

Gordon McCallum

[…]to my working with Mickey because of course that was a tremendous pleasure. It wasn't of course the only pleasure I had. I worked also of course with David Lean on 'In Which We Serve', which was his first directorial effort. He shared that with Noel Coward, a most unusual and strange arrangement, in[…]

Donald Wilson

[…]ours you would need to live reasonably close. Donald Wilson  17:14And I lived with Miss Miss Mrs. Plumb up the road quite a while. And then David Rawnsley and I got very good friends. And between us we managed to always find a flat to live in somewhere within reach. And if I was out of wor[…]

Harry Fowler

behp 0629-t-harry-fowler-transcriptInterviewee: Harry Fowler [HF]Interviewer: David McGillivray [McG]With occasional interventions by Mrs Catherine “Kay” Fowler [KF]Transcription by David Sharp.NB: Some background noise is present from time to time. Where possible I have clarified points made, and i[…]

Val Guest

[…]ed there. A lot of people lived there, Will Hay lived there for a long time, I lived there. There was an awful lot of stars lived there. I introduced David Lean to Kay Walsh his first wife there, because I think David lived there for a while. And Billy Wilder's brother, Bob Wilder. Bud Flanagan. Mar[…]

Dallas Bower

[…]r  07:13Well when I went to BIP I was living in Mill Hill and I used to get myself from Mill Hill to Elstree by being driven either by David Cunningham who was my assistant, or by John Rinders who was then was the Director of BIP and they were doing an enormous amount of scoring of th[…]

Dudley Lovell

[…] cameraman went and in came can and again a replacement. And he bought Ray often. And my first experience with with Ken was he just been working with David Harcourt as an operator over Shepherds Bush. Joe Harcourt was doing continuity who was unfortunately for was David's sister. And every shot I di[…]

Tilly Day

[…], kind of, extra parent in you and your mother?Tilly Day: Oh yes, he was a dear!Sidney Cole: What other directors... did you ever work with David Lean?Tilly Day: No, I knew him very well. I knew him as a cutter.Sidney Cole: But I know David has mentioned you in the past. I didn't[…]
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