David Watkin

David Watkin (DW)Director of PhotographyBECTU No. 320Interviewer: Alan Lawson (AL) and John Legard (JL)Date 03/03/19943 Tapes Side 100:00:00 – 00:12:00 Introductions; born in Margate, 1925; father was a solicitor for Southern Rail; lived in Margate until the war; as a child DW would got to the […]

Dennis Kimbley

[…]ve on this site. We're not gonna do it.Roy Fowler  16:47  Did you feel that don't know?Dennis Kimbley  16:49  Not really. I mean, David Putnam was was a case I mentioned Charlie Parkhouse, who taught me whatever I know about sound recording. David Pakman. Charlie podcast was his […]

Dennis Main Wilson

[…] working class. Bill Robertson's dad was a railway goods yard coupler and uncoupler of shunting waggons. Ronald Blythe's dad was our local copper and David Armstrong's dad was our local United Dairies milkman. We all, thanks to this council school, got scholarships to a local Grammar School. Now tha[…]

Johnny Speight

[…]es and Tom Sloan is supposed to, this is what Dennis said, supposed to have said over my dead body, and Dickie Attenborough, not Dickie Attenborough, David Attenborough who was then head of 2 said if you don't want it Tom, I'll have it. And then Tom said no I'm doing it Norman Swallow: Torn Sloan wa[…]

Peter Lamont

[…]Of course, then, Pinewood closed. So, I’d already gone back to Pinewood, I was still with Carmen and we did Hotel Sahara in Monte Carlo and David Thomlinson and what’s his name, the actor who played the first Poirot. Who played the first Poirot? Peter Ustinov, and he was there and I can’t […]

Paul Collard

[…]he camera and coming back through the film and creating a halo effect. In effect, halation. I’ve got a very interesting story from around about 1980. David Watkin the famous cameraman who was cameraman on Out of Africa, he shot Chariots of Fire which was a film that we processed, and […]
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