John L Hargreaves

[…]nd down all hours of the night. But I saw an advert in the Daily Telegraph saying that the right organisation we're going to get into the business of filmmaking how they wanted production accountants with a budgetary knowledge well I'd done about four years with the with the Lucas grew up in Burnley[…]

Adrian (Andy) Worker

[…] we usually start out by saying when and where were you born? Andy Worker: Well I was born in Bedfordshire in 1916. I always wanted to be in the film industry and during the war I got the opportunity - I was a cost accountant, and I got a job at Shepherd's Bush. Much to my surprise I found that[…]

Mary Orrom

[…] this is an interview by Katy McGahan, one of the curators in the Non-Fiction unit at the BFI interviewing for the BECTU History Project, Mary Orrom, filmmaker, editor and director. And it's 25th of January 2011.  Katy McGahan  0:30  OK  Mary Orrom, many thank[…]

Tony Lawson

Tony Lawson Side 1 Linda Wood  0:00  Tony Lawson, film editor, being interviewed by Linda Wood on the fifth of December. 2000 tape interview for can you say where you were born? Tony Lawson  0:16  Yes, I was born in London, in Paddington. My mother w[…]

Adam Dawson

[…];And I had two older sisters, and a younger brother. So I had plenty of people around with me. And nobody had any sort of influence for me to go into films, or theatre or anything. I hadn't got a particular desire to go to theatre.  I wanted to film because I could see that you were able t[…]

Peter Graham Scott

[…]and she said “well well, in that case you can give up Italia Conti, you can go back to school and learn”, which I did. But I did get the odd parts in films, and it happened that when the film started, I was in 16, or shortly after then..and er…I was allowed to leave school, because I got all of the […]

Maurice Elvey

BECTU History Project - Interview No. 110  [Copyright BECTU]Maurice Elvey (film director) 11/11/1887 – 28/8/1967 by admin — last modified Jul 28, 2008 04:49 PMTranscription Date: [? Pilot Project]  -  Interview Date: 1963-10-01  -  Interviewer: Ralph Bond[…]
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