[…]ne up there and another up there.ROY FOWLER: It was Tommy Bentley probably.HARRY MILLER: Tommy Bentley, Yes. Tommy Bentley I remember more from Denham. Young Woodley, one of his. But Hitch, he was a famous character he had a property man named Harry something and he used to always get h[…]
[…]rk. I was building concrete styes and digging the ground, gravel it was on gravel and at the end of the day my leg was killing me. And then I went to Denham Labs, and became a printer. And that opened my eyes. The standard of work in a laboratory – I’m sure it’s changed now but a dupe neg would come[…]
EXTRACT:-"A chap I knew said would I like to come down to Denham. I said, 'I don’t think I know enough about fibrous plastering.' He said, 'Well, come down because they could do with men, because they’re busy.' They were doing 'Elephant Boy' and things like that at the time, a[…]
[…] his career as a studio plasterer in various studios including Denham, Riverside, Pinewood and Shepperton. A particularly interesting section discusses […]
[…] 1937 -1986 . Worked in order at: Sound City (Shepperton), Denham, Pinewood, Army Film Unit, Crown Film Unit, MGM -Borehamewood, […]
[…]uspicious person didn't trust them. He didn't like directors, and no, it's I had the unpleasant thing situation years later when I worked with him at Denham studios. But Brian Desmond Harris on the night of fire, and he didn't like at all. Brian, whose typical I had a great sense of humor, and he ha[…]
[…]ery lucky. That was from May 1935 to October 1935, at which point Alex sacked us all - or at least all the lower grades - because they were moving to Denham. So, October 1935 I got myself a job at Fox-British, again in the publicity department, with a very very clever young man called Geoff Davis wh[…]
[…]I got off very lightly on that occasion. Later on when I left Shepperton. I was made redundant after 12 weeks, I did get some training when I went to Denham studios but I'm jumping ahead a bit. Nothing happened at Shepperton.Peter Musgrave: This was pretty short, 12 weeks at Shepperton, presumably o[…]
[…] boom swinger on many films of the late 1930s at Denham, Pinewood and Elstree. During the Second World War he […]
[…]erview at Shepperton with John Cox, who did his best to frighten me and suggested I shouldn't go into the business. And he said, "Well when we get to Denham there'll be some jobs going, but at the moment we've got nothing for you." So my little bit of string-pulling there - or my father's - did no g[…]
