[…]ne! That's old ground and we won't mill over it too long. But just to say one thing, I was absolutely lost, because I was surrounded by brilliant academic minds, they were all 'double firsts' from Oxbridge you see. And frankly, I could have been in Tibet, I didn't know what the heck they were talkin[…]
[…]her was when he wasn't drinking he was a journalist. But the lack of the drinking took more time I think than the writing my grandfather was a rather eminent ecclesiastical writer. He was the editor of the Church Times and he wrote for the evening your regular column for the evening news by any clai[…]
[…]e but you couldn't always do it as you know.BA: And the editor.BE: The editor was Michael Chorton and he was a very, as a - matter of fact he always reminded me, I don't know if you knew him at all, but he always reminded me of somebody 1ike Jonathan Miller, he was that type of person, extremely cle[…]
[…]s the boss.VG: No, I never thought anything about him, he was just the guy who pushed the thing at me. I used to talk to him about it in later days, remind him.RF: He was part of Maxwell's Scottish mafia was he not?VG: That's right, and Vaughen Dean was, later on one picture of mine, I can't remembe[…]
[…]r, he’s dead, a fella called John Morris was an editor and a fella called Bill Rowe was an editor. Now that is not Bill Rowe who (no, no)became er an eminent sound supervisor at Elstree. And the fellow in charge of the library’s name was John O’Kelly and he then went with the library when it moved t[…]
[…] Zealand director, was he?Tilly Day: Yes. He was the director of 'You must get Married' [actually, A. Leslie Pearce]Sidney Cole: Hmm. That reminds me, have you been abroad at all during the course of - what locations abroad have you been on? You mentioned, just previously, going to North A[…]
[…] in that England every regarded Shellmex and BP very much as a provincial company which it was in many ways. One of the motor racing films we had a premiere at Shellmex House, which gave very good parties, and Shellmex and BP put on a commercial show of their own for some new petrol and Arthur was f[…]
[…]how to impress people like, the famous man who died recently, Orson Welles.Wyn Ryder: They were all done at Denham?Reggie Beck: No Elstree, EMIp.7Wyn Ryder: Did you have a favourite studio?Reggie Beck: Denham.Wyn Ryder: Elstree worst of all?Reggie Beck: No Walton on Tha[…]
[…] he was a strange man, hunched back, deformed and he had an immense enthusiasm for German cinema and insofar as BIP is concerned he was very much the eminence grise. He, the managing director was a man called John Court Ackleby Thorpe and I don't think he was very interested in filmmaking particular[…]
