Charles Picken  -  My Cinema LifeCHAPTER ONE - MY FORMATIVE YEARSFrom my earliest childhood the magic of the Cinema had been firmly entrenched in my life. In those days television had not yet begun its inexorable march into the living rooms of the nation and the weekly visit, or in my fort[…]
[…]ish actor and film producer best known for his television roles in ITV’s The Army Game (1957-61) and BBC’s Shoestring (1979-80). Joseph Tomelty (1911-1995) was a Northern Irish actor and playwright whose work included roles in A Night to Remember (1958) and Hell is a City (1960).[26] Sir Dirk Bogard[…]
[…] to the whole period from 1603 to 1947. And in Soldier I tried to give a formal unity to all the material, there is film in 1815, just as there is in 1980, and there are stills in 1980 and actuality, just as there are in 1850 during the Crimean War. So I tried all the time to blur the distinctions b[…]
Chili BouchierChili Bouchier (1909-1999) was a British film actress, after working as a model forHarrods, she won a Daily Mail competition to become a film star. Her films included Shooting Stars (1927), The Return of Carole Deane (1938) and Dead Lucky (1960).I: 29th of May 1996 we are at BECTU head[…]
