Ezra Dearing

Medical films – he’d started medical training at Nottingham. Then long periods out of work, interspersed with non-film work model making, dioramas etc. Started own company for stop-frame filming (firs…

Muriel Box (Gardiner) (née Baker)

…roducer; Gerald Gardiner, Lord ChancellorBIOGRAPHY: One of Britain’s few female film directors, Muriel Box entered the British film industry working on continuity and scriptwriting in 1932. During the…

Denny Densham

… Tea, South American railways)Visiting studio and meeting Sydney Box.Selfridges film.Blakeley Mancunian ProductionsEaling Studios: The Foreman went to FranceCrown Film Unit: Fires were Started; True S…

Philip Saville

…ighlightsSaville’s career spanned over 50 years and crossed mediums (stage, TV, film). Key points:Acting & Early WorkHe acted in films from around 1948, while still young, including small parts.

Muriel Pavlow

…ent to school locally .She started acting at an early age and her first, brief, film appearance came at the age of 13 in the Gracie Fields morale-boosting musical Sing As We Go !(1934).and co-sta…

Peter Montagnon

After the war his National Service was with the Royal Air Force and then transferred into the Army with Signals, commissioned. After demobilisation he had ideas of being a stockbroker or a broadcaster…

George Ivan Smith

…er Baylis .Access to all Rank theatres and benefitted from British quota.  Film on postwar housing problem: Houses for All .Favourable reaction from Aneurin Bevan who was impressed by Rank’s…

Harry Pottle

…al College of Art] and eventually got a job in the Drawing Office of Two Cities Films; after war service rejoined the Art Dept., at 146 Piccadilly, was moved to Shepperton. The first film that he work…

John Cooper

Westward TV as Schedules Officer at £20 a week.  Head of Film at Westward. He instituted the annual Head of Films Conferences in 1973 which lasted through until 1990. He went to TSW and stay…