[…] to see the Encyclopaedia Britannica and found this amazing sort of amateurish cock-up going on [laughter] and there was a very, very shrewd managing director, who said, ‘Yes, I think you’re just the person we want’ and within about twenty-four hours I was installed in an office and told to write qu[…]
[…]rst film was Harold Huth? and Chilli Boucher as a juvenile leads. In a film I think it was called Downstream with a chap called David Dunbar American director of wore a big Stetson hat and was marvellous at throwing knives and things like that. But he wasn't a very good director. Not at someone, not[…]
[…] were then IBA, called us and said "would you join them" and we joined them...Alan Sapper : They invited you...Lew Grade : So Val became the managing director, Val Parnell that is, I became the deputy managing director. And I suggested that Prince Littler, who owned the Moss Stoll group, become the […]
[…]om Beaconsfield. On. In and South By.SPEAKER: F7Just floundering about. No no shade you know date space and the crew of be shining on waiting for the director of the asset manager to make arrangements to shoot next week in the mines and nobody cares and nothing was. Organised before.SPEAKER: F6It wa[…]
[…]appened and she said, "They're not going to lend you the money." It was about forty thousand or something we wanted, and at that moment the assistant director on the film we were making at that moment popped his head round the door and said, "There's trouble on the floor, will you come down and paci[…]
[…]bsp;I saw Stan called Phillips. So if was the Met was the sort of managing director so he'd come up through the ranks. She'd been quite worked quite hard i[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]nbsp;Norman Swallow: Yes, he was in Alexander Palace, television only.Broadcasting house for big senior meeting. He was Director of Television, I'm sure as the title. managing director, maybe just director. Cecil wasHead of Programmes and later Controller[…]
[…]ost of the artists arrived at Shepperton by train brings to mind the following rhyme which was going around at that time, it was called the assistant director's lament: What shall I do, What shall I do, An Actor has missed the train, The Crowd's got lost, In Love I'm crossed and we're working late a[…]
[…] actors it runs quite smoothly and that's a fairly sane director you know a very rational director because they are […]
