…s and one of his ancestors was Rebecca Rietti, Benjamin Disraeli’s grandmother. Film and television actor, Robert Rietti, best known for his voice. On-screen appearancesin John Schlesinger’s Sunday Bl…
Henry Cornel Lucas was a British film photographer born 12 September 1920 in London and was the first photographer to ever win a BAFTA in 1998 for services to British Film Industry. He was a pioneer o…
…or Vincent Korda, who invited him to work as a designer on such classic British films as The Fallen Idol (1948) and The Third Man (1949).In the mid-1950s, Hawkesworth took the side-step from the sceni…
…under the pen name Clare Nicol. She continued to act and had small roles in the film My Brother Jonathan (1948) and the BBC television drama Lady Precious Stream (1950). Adair wrote two ser…
…ompson’s Glasgow branch; they worked on a script together, Midnight Menace. The film was made at Pinewood and directed by Sinclair Hill. He says that he believed that Conrad Veidt had something to do …
…en, on the TV series that became The Jewel in the Crown.In 1986 he directed the film Clockwise, with a screenplay by Michael Frayn, in which John Cleese as a comprehensive school head strugg…
… Hungarian uprising in 1956. After the Ham and High, he worked part-time on the film industry magazines Kine Weekly and the Daily Film Renter. But with four young children to feed, he was on the looko…
…ineer, Sir James no less - a lovely man - who, incidentally, was in the wartime film Western Approaches - the radio operator who is playing the radio operator in Western Approaches is Jimmy Redmond.&n…
…lement he got. He then talks about the setting up of his own company White City Films Ltd., and the various ideas that didn’t reach fruition.SIDE THREEHe says he became disillusioned with television a…
…ar Game” ( 1966) He was the director of photography on such notable films as “Charlie Bubbles” ( 1968) , The Rocky Horror Picture Show ( 1975), George Lukas’ “ The …