Erwin Hillier

[…]arts. You see, you didn't have a sort of rough, ready boys. You know, one has especially from America. I hate to say this in comparison the Hollywood directors I've worked in my lifetime, very few had what I call a cultural background. Forgive me mention about culture I admire and respect this very […]

Paul Fox

[…]ds like I:    The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project.  Sir Paul Fox.  One time Managing Director, BBC Television, Yorkshire Television.  Interviewing Norman Swallow.  Recorded on the 24th of March 1993.  Side 1.First and fo[…]

Philip Donnellan

[…]atSide 1Colin Moffat: The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project.  Philip Donnellan: television documentary producer, director.  Recording starting on the 28 June1991.Colin Moffat: Right, Philip your name is quite clearly Irish but I suspect in fact if I didn't a[…]

Anne V Coates

[…]you know, I had begun to, to formulate more what I wanted to do, and editing seemed to be the most interesting job. And at that time I wanted to be a director, and I reckoned that I, you know, I was going to be God’s gift to directors, that, you know how you are when you’re young. But I was very con[…]

Daphne Shadwell

[…]n P will put me right.JPH: Your parents were living in Wandsworth.DS: Oh yes, yes. Because my father was Charles Shadwell, a musician, a musical director. He was MD Musical Director at the Putney Hippodrome at that time, so that’s why I was born in that area. But shortly after that, I thin[…]

James Arthur Clark

[…]sque 16 new burlesque age 16 and we set off and we made with friends we made a little film in which I actually although I was so I wasn't really t he director of this film I was the actor. I was seen as an escaped Borstal Boy running across the fence being chased by a lot of policemen on my way towa[…]

Maurice Carter

Copyright is vested in the BECTU History Project19th December 1990, Maurice Carter, art director, interviewed by Roy FowlerSIDE ONE, TAPE ONERoy Fowler: When and where were you bornMaurice Carter: I was born in the London, in 1913, and I had the normal sort ofschooling, Gladstone, and I eventually w[…]

Bill Cotton

[…]en I'll feel better. And I'm very like that, but as I say I'm very basic, all my life at the BBC I never took it seriously. I mean to become managing director of BBC Television was beyond my wildest expectations. And when I got I used to stand there and I used to look at the building and I used to s[…]
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