[…]But yeah, wasn’t he already with the BBC when he got his K? I think he got that when he was a news reader. I think he had become managing director of radio before he became managing director of television? I don’t know, one’s memory is a bit hazy. But I think Robin Day was th[…]
Bernard Vorhaus (film director) 25/12/1904 – 23/11/2000 by admin — last modified Jul 27, 2008 02:46 PM BIOGRAPHY: Bernard Vorhaus […]
[…]a lot so everything you'd rehearsed had to be kind of thrown out of the window! But we all coped and it was fine. But the best joy I had at STV was a Director called Dougie Moodie. Douglas Moodie. He came from BBC to STV and it was Ibsen's The Wild Duck, the play. I'd seen it at the Festival and Dou[…]
[…]d to ABC Television as Thames originally was, or it was, Thames was the merger of two companies, ABC and Rediffusion, and I had applied for a trainee Director's scheme that they ran, that ABC Television ran. It was for theatre directors actually but I was an unsuccessful applicant. I was on the shor[…]
[…]s too low to be a good actor, but I was over Tony Garnett and Tom Courtenay, when I was at University College London, but I was quite a good producer-director. And I wanted to take that path, and in fact spent my first post-graduate job was with a touring theatre in Norway. A state touring theatre i[…]
[…] 1Alan Lawson.The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU history project. Gerry Humphries, sound recordist, dubbing mixer, managing director of Twickenham Film Studios. Interviewer Alan Lawson. Recorded on the 21st August 1995. Side one.Now, first Gerry when and w[…]
[…]mpany was called London District cinemas limited, and they were owned by a proprietor, chap called Wainwright. Mr. Wainwright, I can't name the other directors, and their head office was based at the capital cinema in Epsom Surrey, that's since been gone quite a number of years. And as I say, I work[…]
[…]d here or jump round there. Well, I remember an occasion with him when he came out with a brilliant idea after about two hours of rehearsing, and the director said, but that's what you've been already doing for two hours. He just didn't seem to remember, no any others you'd like to talk about.Unknow[…]
