Erwin Hillier

[…] any other director, not even Hitchcock, who could would be superior, or even David Lean, who I think is one of the English might say visual masters, Director. It's not only clever with his artist, but he's also very clever from the visual side. That's why whoever, because I worked with David Lean w[…]

Paul Fox

[…]s Men crisis is interesting.  I did that election, the election when Wilson lost.  I was a Producer of that election with Dick Francis as a Director.  And there was no doubt the relationship between Harold Wilson and the BBC had soured, and it had soured to some extent, I suppose, I m[…]

Philip Donnellan

[…]atSide 1Colin Moffat: The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project.  Philip Donnellan: television documentary producer, director.  Recording starting on the 28 June1991.Colin Moffat: Right, Philip your name is quite clearly Irish but I suspect in fact if I didn't a[…]

Anne V Coates

[…]ort of films.’ Or ‘I don’t want him because he’s,’ you know, this. Mhm. But, I don’t think I’ve come across... Well the ambition was to be a director. What happened there, did you abandon it, or did it abandon you? I abandoned it really. I could have been a director. I could be a directo[…]

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[…]

James Arthur Clark

[…]have to be union members and working through for the Film Institute and stuff like that. Not not question. Did you see the rushes separately from the director. Or did you see it in my recollection and it could be wrong. He would see them with the producers the associate producers. I don't believe he[…]

Maurice Carter

[…]anotherday.Roy Fowler: What did the Department comprise and how did it operate, he was the headof the art departmentMaurice Carter: Vetch was the art director. There was a guy called because Gus Kochswho was his assistant who had come from the same direction as I had in decoration, Ithink he came fr[…]

Bill Cotton

[…]nt to ask meJohn Taylor: You refused toBill Cotton Jr: I just wouldn't board, not for any job. I didn't go in front of the board for BBCl or managing director. And the only time I ever sat a board as a matter of fact was for director general, for the job of director general which I didn't want to go[…]
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