[…], it seemed to me that people either liked him a lot or disliked him. But I had never had any contact with him at all, but I mean he was a jolly good director. And really, although he rather, in his book, he praised down some of these cheap pictures he made in the early days, I think that some of th[…]
[…]er?Speaker 2 34:23 Or did you ever get that close? I think must have a card, really.Unknown Speaker 34:30 He was producer and director.Unknown Speaker 34:31 Was he? Yes, he's a very nice man, and he always thought about the crew a lot. For instance, when we went o[…]
[…] Pat Jackson (1916 -2011) was an English film and television director. His films included Encore (1951) and What a Carve Up! […]
[…] ‘the Monarchy’. So, a consortium of ITV and BBC got together, so the idea of making the film was born and Dick Cawston was approached to be the director. And so we spent a year following The Queen, to South America, wherever she went, and that was that. Extraordinary times.[Laughter] DB: […]
[…]the Beast – and Trish Van Devere, his real wife, played Beauty.[125] That was directed by an old friend of ours called Fielder Cook,[126] an American director. And then I did a film called The Disappearance (1977) with Donald Sutherland.[127] It was a tiny part – one scene or two scenes, or somethin[…]
[…]was, yes. It was done at Shepperton. It was done at Shepperton and I think every musician in the world was used on it. Toots Camarata was the musical director. And to me a great lady that worked on it as choreographer was Agnes de Mille, who was the daughter of 'the' Cecil...[NB Actually the daughte[…]
[…]operator to Bob Martin. I operated on several films with Bob and then I got a lighting break with a film called Fortune's Fool, Norman Walker was the director. Then I. started on my second film lighting but I was in dead trouble because ACT, NATKE and ETU had come to an agreement where one of the un[…]
Tape operator 0:06 Yeah, I think that's good. That's good.Derek Threadgall 0:07 Okay. The copyright of this recording is vested in the British entertainment history project.Okay, good thing. Today is Monday 20th of June 2016. The interviewee is Howard Lanning, president of th[…]
[…] others were good fun, but you know, you didn’t have to be Beerbohm Tree to play them. This was serious; with Cavalcanti directing – he was a serious director.McG: Tell me about Cavalcanti as a director.HF: Lovely man. I used to have to – on Champagne Charlie he didn’t like Tommy Trinder.[Laughter] […]
[…]e, this was quite a political decision with a small "p". And eventually, it wasn't shown. But that caused both a very nasty, nasty situation with the director. But I was supported by the Head of Programmes to say it wasn't. So those are the sorts of monitoring or edits ... I mean, in the end managem[…]
