Vernon Sewell

Vernon Sewell ( film director) 4/7/1903-21/6/2001 by admin — last modified Aug 12, 2008 02:08 PM BIOGRAPHY: Vernon Sewell began […]

John Schlesinger

JOHN SCHLESINGER Feature film director Interviewer Norman Swallow, recorded on 30 March 1994 Copyright of the recording is vested in BECTU History Project SIDE 1, TAPE 1 Norman Swallow: Let's go back to day one, when where you born and where. John Schlesinger: I was bor[…]

Wendy Toye

[…]to have a governess from then onwards. And sometimes if you are in a theatre, in a show, you have to have lessons in the dressing room or down in the film studio. It was all quite fascinating, all thatLW: Did you appear in any films?WT: Not while I was very young, not until I was about 14. And then […]

Winston (Wyn) Ryder

[…]he was very talented, when she wasn’t working for Edgar Wallace, mainly in the theatre,LH: Edgar Wallace, apart from being a writer, was presumably a film director-WR: Well for some time – I was so young Les that I don’t really know – he almost took over Beaconsfield Studios, which we were living al[…]

Cyril Pennington-Richards

[…]tarted a radio business, which was very successful and I made a lot of money. I got a bit bored with it and I had a cousin who was making advertising films and he asked me if I'd like to join them. So I went in with them, with his two partners and him and we started in um - in fact what we did, do y[…]

Michael Houldey

[…]lly new cinema. That's to say, the new wave. And that had a huge impact on me. And I decided there and then this is what I want to do. I want to make films. But how do I make films? Well, to start with, I was sort of lucky in a way because I went to the American centre where that where there was a d[…]

Emmanuel (Manny) Yospa

[…]eet, 145 Wardour Street, and his workshop was on the top and we used to meet on the top floor in the workshop. Underneath that floor was The Worker's Film Association, Alderman Joe Reeves, I don't know if you knew him?Charles Drazin: The name rings a bell, yes.Manny Yospa: He was actually the film d[…]

Graham Smart

[…]ebruary 1995.Graham Smart  0:41  Right, I'll just quickly read something from a book which actually is probably easier. Actually, this is a film we made for Imperial Tobacco. It was the first programme and it was 73 that one that was mediaeval that. Yes, soManny Yospa  1:01  any […]

Gordon Hales

[…] Ipswich public school. But we were taken to the cinema but rarely our parents who both was religious I had an elder sister and a younger brother for films  that they considered a suitable to see with cheddar kitten? in the jungle, things like that. Anything dramatic, romantic and so on was for[…]

Ronald Grant

[…]ald grant. The interviewer is Mike dick, on cameras, John Luton. The interview number is eight to nine. The date is the 24th of April 2023. And we're filming at the cinema Museum in Kensington, London, which houses the most remarkable collection of cinema memorabilia collected over the last 70 years[…]
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