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[…]

Kay Mander

[…]Kay ManderTape 1, Side 1 Sidney Cole: The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Kay Mander, continuity, documentary director. Interviewer Sid Cole, recorded on the 29th of September 1988, Side one.Sidney Cole: Tell me about when you were born, and your childhoodKay […]

Freddie Francis

Copyright is vested in the BECTU History ProjectFREDDIE FRANCIS, lighting cameraman, feature film director, interviewer Alan Lawson, recorded on 24 November 1993SIDE 1, TAPE 1Alan Lawson: When and where were you born?Freddie Francis: I was born in the wilds of North London, Barnesbury, north London […]

Richard Marden

[…]:06  he thought that wasAlan Legard  22:07  only Harvey, because then he went on toRichard Marden  22:09  talk to the acting director,Alan Legard  22:13  he and the news. When did you Where did you start first? And asRichard Marden  22:18  I started first[…]

John Krish

[…]ly that but they were so keen on making the best use of me and me getting the best out of it that I was put on the floor as a second assistant to the director and then put into the cutting room on the same film. And so I learnt an enormous amount. The very first film I worked on as an assistant was […]

Edward Aneurin Williams

[…] that's right. And various things like that. And I suppose that must have affected me, all the articles had other film tastes as well, for data entry directors, and all those lovely things which you had, anyhow, I got, I become a member of the Cambridge University, Film Society, which sexually which[…]

Ray Harryhausen

[…]ional in Hollywood who used to come and lecture at the museum.SPEAKER: M11And uh uh. At school as well. And uh all these people they would get an art director. Some of the various art directors of that time to come and give lectures at night school and USC and uh.SPEAKER: M5But it was an early cours[…]

Jonathan Balcon

[…]. Jonathan Balcon  37:57  And he had of course, we must go back a bit now let's go back to "39 Steps" at Gaumont. One of the assistant directors at "39 Steps", on "39 Steps" was Pen Tennyson, now Pen I suppose was the nearest thing I had to a brother in as much as my father, in the he[…]
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