Bill Girdlestone

[…]ck Harris, and we became great pals because I found Jack Harris his first flat in Boston Manor. I'd moved from Wimbledon Park after I got married, to Ealing and I lived in Boston Manor and I found Jack Harris a flat. And his wife was Wyn Barry and she came to me one day with a rubber band with lots […]

Virginia McKenna

[…]I did in the theatre, actually, was with him, so I’ve known him for many years.[32]JR: Fine actor.VM: Wonderful actor. And then I did another film at Ealing[33] called The Ship that Died of Shame (1955).[34] That was with George Baker,[35] who I then, many years later, did one of those Inspector Wex[…]

Carmen Dillon

[…] all went over to Pinewood. And then I stayed there the rest of the time. Except going once or twice - once to Wembley I think, [corrects herself] to Ealing I think, and apart from that to MGM.Sidney Cole: Oh they had lovely studios at MGM.Carmen Dillon: Yes.Sidney Cole: Elstree, yes.Carmen Dillon: […]

James (Jimmy) Gilbert

[…] was piano, drums, guitar, base, clarinet and we used to do gigs. In fact our lead guitarist, a chap called Crossbie ended up as one of the bosses of Ealing Studios so I met him much later in my career when I was directing and he was in charge and by then he'd become an obsessive music nut. So I had[…]

Barbara K Emary

[…]ebody called Lew Jackson who had taken over management and it was running as Mr Baxter thought right and so he opted out.And that was when he went to Ealing and Inade two films called Dreaming and Here Comes the Sun, with Flanagan and Allen again, although I say be wrong, because I can See Flanagan […]

Philip Bonham-Carter

[…]o clearly going in there the first few days and it was a bit like a cross between a boarding school and the army a bit. DB: We are talking about Ealing, are we? Ealing studios? PB-C: Yes, sorry. I was based as a holiday relief as Assistant Cameraman, at the Television Film Studio, yes at E[…]

Lindsay Anderson

[…] say, there was the people who were working for Rank who then went to Korda. It was the era of Lean, Reed, and Powell and Pressburger. And then later Ealing which we were benevolent towards. But the British cinema at that time was very over praised in our opinion. The media such as they were at that[…]

David Attenborough

[…]or some people with other human attributesNorman Swallow I remember, we're now 1956 obviously Suez I remember it soon after that you had an office in EalingDavid Attenborough: A long, long time after that, what happened then was, if we revert to what we were doing all of us as producers and what the[…]

John Dark

[…] went under the name of a public school. But there's actually not much difference. And so I didn't think much of that. So I win my holidays I went to Ealing Studios to see if I could get a job and I was 14 and they said yes they can get me a job in the camera department. And I came back and announce[…]
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