[…]ton. And credit to him, although he put a lot of nails in my coffin later on, but he did. He was Noel Jay Ward Thompson man, of course, he was an art director. J war Thompson, as a youngster, he was thrown out. They didn't like him, which was wrong, because he was very slick. I mean, he wasn't one o[…]
[…] the director's name? Oh...Marcel Varnel, this is Marcel Varnel the director. Bob Allen: Ah hmm. And the cameraman? Fred Tomlin: That's […]
[…]re, just the location. We were in India a 10ng time, it took a long time to get there. Osmond Borradaile was the cameraman. Geoffrery Boothby was the director. That was the whole unit. We didn't take sound or any actors. We went there to shoot all the battle scenes. They were big scale and to do a 1[…]
[…]e after GBI, yes, Roy, because I just to sort of read cap, to bring me up to date on it, we had our offices on the fifth floor. That was the managing director. Was just Davis, and there was a G Jackson script writer was Harold Goodwin, general production. Chap was Derek Dane, Eric or Derek Eric, Eri[…]
[…]l, Frank Sainsbury, john Taylor, all sorts of people in there, the dog and duck, which I used to go into a lot of time with my great friend, the film director. Micro law. Then there was the, the the winebar, and the Mandrake, and the gargoyle, and aerials, or the colony, Rome and the French BB and t[…]
[…]er Twist set where they were filming a scene in Fagin's kitchen with the young John Howard Davies as Oliver. Of course he is now a famed producer and director. I watched the shooting of Oliver Twist until about 3 and then we went over to The Red Shoes set. I saw Micky Powell running around. And I wa[…]
[…]r GPO. I said, look around for the the marine hunts must stand. Well, I want an extra day. I said, I'm sorry. You can't have an extra day. So I'm the director. And I said, I know but you know, you've got you've got you're the director, but you've got 2430 people relying on you, you know, you can't j[…]
[…]ell I don't know, there was but I was there and I was with an American art director named Bob Haass who was a personal friend. He was a Universal art director. And I mean it was just everybody who was in the room decided what they were going to do and they joined. And it was just like that!Rodney Gi[…]
THE ACTT HISTORY PROJECT – CEDRIC DAWE, ART DIRECTOR.INTERVIEWER: ROY FOWLER.The copyright of the following recording is vested with the BECTU History project. It is the 19th of November 1991. We are in Chartridge in Buckinghamshire at the home of Cedric Dawe, an Art Director whose career in the ind[…]
[…]ks, I think his name was, he was the same name as the actor...Sidney Cole: ...as the actor.Tilly Day: ...actor, yes. It was the New Zealand director...Sidney Cole: New Zealand director, was he?Tilly Day: Yes. He was the director of 'You must get Married' [actually, A. Leslie Pear[…]
