Francis Gysin

…as in the grain business and ship broking in London for a Swiss company. Joined Film Society at Cambridge, has 9.5 mm film equipment – always interested in films as a child – had access to 16mm equipm…

Roy Pembrooke

… our aircraft flying over enemy territory were nominated and given the names of film stars who had worked at the studios. One of the last pictures to be filmed there before the War was a comedy s…

Billy Williams

…ork as an assistant to his father at £1.50 a week working on Admiralty training films; he says his father was a hard taskmaster. In 1946 aged 17 he went with his father to work with the Colonial Film …

Donald Wilson

…t an early age – regularly visited a mobile cinema with the family which showed films at the local town hall. Entered film industry by accident through the newspaper he worked for. On an assignment he…

Pat Jackson

BIOGRAPHY: Pat Jackson entered the film industry in 1933 as an assistant at the GPO Film Unit (later the Crown Film Unit). After working on Night Mail (1936) among other productions, he made his direc…

Don Sharp

…te a screenplay and with the encouragement of James Laurie of the BFFC [British Film Financing Corporation] managed to get his first film Ha’penny Breeze; he describes the making.SIDE TWOHe was out of…

Muriel Cole

…y Park and on my way each day to the station on the Metropolitan Line Ipassed a film studio – Fox British. I thought it would be nice to work locally, so wrote off fora secretarial post, which I got a…

David Puttnam

…ty, AU;Member of the Advisory Board of Accenture (Ireland);Adjunct Professor in Film Studies & Digital Humanities, University College Cork;Chairman, School Advisory Board, Nord Anglia Internationa…

Anthony Havelock-Allan

…baret club. In 1933 he began work as a casting director at British and Dominion film studios, who were involved in the production of ‘quota quickies’ for Paramount. He quickly graduated to producer an…

Marcia Wheeler

…the cacti anyway.The studio material was recorded down the line to London on to film to be edited and dubbed, video editing was still done by razor and tape and could not cope with Dennis’s already so…