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 […]

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[…]

Dudley Lovell

[…]ong enough. I mean, I remember once we had a lot of North hardware, the exteriors were night. And I remember one winter's night there and I think the director was waterfall. I was working on a picture there and we just went on and on and on. No probation, no meals, no breaks until I it was about how[…]

Bernard Gribble

[…]oton directed by a chap named Jerry vice. Yeah. Who. Strange enough. These has come full circle. Was the man at the Czech film school who trained the director I'm working with a moment of impasse. It's a small world anyway. I naturally was very intrigued by all this and redoubled my efforts to get i[…]

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[…]

Ronald Neame

[…]ourth is the fourth of September 1991. We're at ACTT. And the interview is with a very distinguished, originally lighting cameraman and our producer, director, Ronald Neame. Ronald, let's start at the very beginning, you had a parentage that was very active in the film industry of its time. Ron[…]

Oswald (Ossie) Morris

[…]tober 1932 till the spring of 1933 and the company was called associated sound film industries. And George Pollock who became a very famous assistant director was an accountant there and Norman Nests whom. I'm sure you all knew in the film industry who were in the army was in the top office he was a[…]

Gerry Fisher

[…]using short ends when in fact you you weren't it always seemed like that to them because it was the days of when you took many many takes to get this director's perfection and when we finished the loading slammed the sides of the camera back and everything else. I took off the to unload finished tak[…]

Roy Fowler

BECTU History Project Interview with ROY FOWLER – producer, director, writerInterview Date(s):13 June 2000Interview number:479Interviewers: Rodney Giesler Side 1Rodney Giesler:This is an interview with Roy Fowler recorded by Rodney Giesler on the 13 June 2000 for the BECTU oral history arc[…]
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