[…]ospital. And it was I think, just about the time that they moved into that that I joined them, I persuaded them to give me a job as a as an assistant director. Because I I'm, I don't think I've worked for them at all before that. It was when they started at Cleveland street that I went to work for t[…]
[…] films. The first film was being directed by Adrian Brunel, I remember that, Ivor Novello was the lead and then. I fell into the hands of an American director called T. Hayes Hunter. He turned out to be a very nice man but he was very severe on me to begin with. Eventually Balcon and Gainsborough Pi[…]
[…] Fowler: Was Leslie Arliss dislikeable? Andy Worker: Who was the director... No, no, I found him quite nice. Roy Fowler: […]
[…] the film business. Alan Lawson: Well my father was the director of publicity for I think a t that time […]
[…]cause men, everybody has to start at the bottom of learning, learn some trade and work their way up, rather than just arriving according themselves a director or something. And it also meant that people weren't exploited. Because everybody has been a union, the shop steward would check that they wer[…]
[…] teachers for conductingAlexander Faris: Richard Austin was the conducting teacher to whom I owe quite a lot I must say. And Sir George Dyson was the director, and Herbert Howells was the great Composition teacher of those days. But I eventually went to the director and said I don't think I'm doing […]
[…]ally know what it was about, I think he just didn't like Leslie Arliss. Roy Fowler: Was Leslie Arliss dislikeable? Andy Worker: Who was the director... No, no, I found him quite nice. Roy Fowler: Yes he'd been one of the Gainsborough writers hadn't he, along with Val Guest? Andy […]
[…] also a linkman, a good bridge between myself and the director if there was a ·bit of friction over how […]
[…]heatre and directing. And when I got to Cambridge, which was a year later, I joined the Cambridge University's Mummers and the ADC and my career as a director took off. My first significant production for the Mummers was Ondine by Jean Giraudoux and it was a huge hit. I'll never forget th[…]
[…][NB: Identities not clear] Duration: 02:24:07The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Nancy Thomas, television producer/director. Interviewer Norman Swallow. Recorded on the twenty-fifth of January 1991.Well, if you don’t mind, you know, when and where were you born?I w[…]
