[…]gland. As of time he retired. He and his wife disappeared off to France the rest of their days. My brother Peter, younger, younger brother, Peter, he emigrated to Australia when he was 15, under the big brother scheme, sheep farming, and he went on to have a whole series of businesses out there and […]
[…]st significant production for the Mummers was Ondine by Jean Giraudoux and it was a huge hit. I'll never forget that John Tusa played the Knight, the eminent John Tusa, and subsequently I directed A View From The Bridge when it was first released as an amateur from under the Lord Chamberlain's, you […]
[…]that - I'd always been a great enthusiast for America. To me Hollywood was wonderful and I used to adore the whole aspect of America, so I decided to emigrate. And so at just under - I think I was just under, I was about twenty-one, I know I came out of the army just under twenty-one. I was about tw[…]
[…]ound. Well Harry Rayner[?] was approached by Mr Falkner, chief engineer for Stoll circuits, at The Coliseum. So he decided he wanted - we were in a premium now, because we knew something about it, and the thing was that we knew what to do, we knew how to make a programme up and we knew what to do if[…]
[…]xed music there….that was a BBC mixer. It was an amalgam of different things, and some basic tape machines of the day. We had a couple of EMIs. Later on he got two very good Ampex machines which had had won from the Ministry of Defence and they had converted these machines I should[…]
[…]rst of all to see that side of the thing." And on the strength of 'Silver Fleet' I could have got a job at once. Because I had telegrams, after the premier of 'The Silver Fleet' I had telegrams from MGM and Warner and Columbia, all offering me a contract, so that I couldn't do anything about it.Roy […]
[…]went off, I think it was my father, went off to the cinema thinking I wasn't going to arrive that night, and I crept in I think. I was born just beforemidnight on February 16th And we, my father was apaediatrician, my mother was a very good amateur violinist. So my early years were really filled wit[…]
