[…]And there are still people around Alan who say and I sometimes meet them er at some I don’t know, the Royal Television Society some some (yes) senior executives says to me “I used to be a production manager with ..... “ Basic Films or World Wide or someone like that. He said “I can remember bringing[…]
[…] Goetz was the highest I ever got to an MGM executive you know. Roy Fowler: Okay. And that was what, […]
[…]the bikes got to be. And the land caravan said, that's where the lights got to be, which is a stupid sort of situation. So they have to call down the executive producer and the studio manager. And eventually somebody gives way, but that's how it used to be once upon a time. And then of course, then […]
[…]ey's territory wasn't it?Roy Fowler: Yes, yes [laughs].E.M. Smedley-Aston: No, certainly no. Ben Goetz was the highest I ever got to an MGM executive you know.Roy Fowler: Okay. And that was what, your last picture before the war?E.M. Smedley-Aston: Well no I went back with George[…]
[…]his day, I still think it probably one of the best speeches I ever made, that when I came back in, I went “So we are not allowed to go on strike. The Executive Committee will not allow us to go on strike because we're 80% ethnic minority, which they were, all the Tea, the Tea ladies, all the others […]
[…]up. I was given two films on different processes: "Distillation" and "Cracking & Reforming." I worked to Denis Segaller with Douglas Gordon being executive producer. We had a technical adviser in Shell called Bill Prentice, who was a refinery engineer. Also a technical adviser called Martin Roge[…]
[…] Reforming." I worked to Denis Segaller with Douglas Gordon being executive producer. We had a technical adviser in Shell called […]
[…]s nobody else and it was pointless to send for somebody else so I did them. And I did a Royal Variety Performance, but I never produced once I was an executive because I don't believe in it. I think that the business about it's nice to be in touch with what's going on is far outweighed by the fact t[…]
[…] logistics firm ‘Sam Freight’. Goodman moved into television as an executive producer in the late 1960s and 1970s, working with […]
[…]n behind the desk. 'Hello, Johnny, I’m setting up a company called Trident Films', he said, 'and I just wondered if you’d be interested in being Executive in Charge of Production'.
I practically had an erection, it was so totally unbelievable. 'It sounds very interesting,[…]
