David Eady

…ction for Slander. Morton Selten; Richard Causon[?]; BAFTA; Bill McMillan, Film Pathe; Michael Flanders, Donald Swan.1945 Father at Treasury, Sir Wilfred Eady, Eady plan; Maynard Keynes; Sell rai…

Johnny (Johnny) Goodman

BIOGRAPHY: Johnny Goodman was born in 1927 in Walthamstow. He entered the film industry as a page boy at the Gaumont-British Studios at Lime Grove (Shepherd’s Bush) at the age of 14. Working his way t…

David Watkin

A lover of Kodak stock. On the film Robin Hood with Sean Connery which was shot in Spain he used different types of Kodak film to get the best result. In later years he rarely viewed the rushes.

Gus Walker

Then A Yank at Oxford, [and] I, Claudius. Remembered work on film stopped when Merle Oberon had an accident., and two-hour’s notice was not unusual. Next: Busman’s Holiday, Goodbye…

Jimmy Wright

… Wright had joined the Royal Air Force in 1942 to become a cameraman in the RAF Film Unit based in Pinewood Studios. His career ended on 23rd February 1944 when the Martin Marauder aircraft in which h…

David Rose

…y Man among others. BFI+2British Entertainment History Project+2Channel 4 & Film On FourIn 1981, Rose moved to Channel 4 as Senior Commissioning Editor for Fiction. Whilst there, he initiated/ran …

Tony Garnett

…lays A Climate of Fear (1962) and The Birth of a Private Man (1963), and in the film The Boys (1962), as a teenager on trial for murder.He joined the Wednesday Play as an assistant story editor and, o…

Jeremy Summers

… family of theatrical tradition and his father Walter Summers (1896-1973) was a film director and screenwriter.He directed nearly 50 different TV programmes between 1960 and 1999, including The S…

John Gray

In 1960 John Gray,  directed West Highland for the BBC. The film brought together his 1930s career, when he worked alongside the great documentary maker John Grierson, what became his lifelong in…