Alan Lawson

[…]pt writer called Bettison, I always remember him, very gentle and he was was known as Betty poor chap, and there was Chan Balcon, who wasrepresenting Gainsborough, the film was Balaclava and was being made for Gainsborough, and also Samuels, P.C. Samuels, also from Gainsborough, and they were the bu[…]

Ray (Ramon) Morse

[…]w what I mean. When anyway, we used to do these I did this for about three years we didthe Plaza and all the differentAstorias and then somebody from Gainsborough for a talent scout saw me doing all these fantastic makeups for something one way we got to be for men too and another week I'll be someb[…]

Wendy Toye

[…]l the extraneous bits, I think I was in that and then I watch it through and find out I wasn't. They cut it out.LW: Which studios did you work at?WT: Gainsborough. I've got a marvelous story about Gainsborough. Not that many years ago I was in New York and Dicky Attenborough was directing Chorus Lin[…]

Adrian (Andy) Worker

[…] good bread, a good bakery. Now you went to The Bush... Andy Worker: Yeah... Roy Fowler: Which was then occupied by whom? Andy Worker: Gainsborough. Roy Fowler: Right...Gainsborough... Andy Worker: Yeah, ah hmm. Roy Fowler: In the Ostrer...? Andy Worker: Well that […]

Charles Bennett

[…]l. It was a very pleasant - I've never known anywhere as pleasant to work as was Gaumont-British.Arnold Schwartzman : That wasn't the... What was the Gainsborough studios?Charles Bennett : Gainsborough was part of Gaumont-British. It was owned by... When I made The Clairvoyant with Claude Rains I wa[…]

A F (Peter) Birch

[…]ent; I mean, I gave him no trouble. I gave nobody trouble if I could help it .Alan Lawson : Now you're back again with Mickey Powell, but shooting at Gainsborough on "Phantom Light". What was Gainsborough like to work at in those days? There was an upstairs and a downstairs, wasn't there, or have I […]

Joan Kemp-Welch

[…]OT' stands for?Joan Kemp-Welch: I don't know.Roy Fowler: No? Right, OK.Joan Kemp-Welch: Um, this one...Roy Fowler: It's a film in Gainsborough called All In.John P Hamilton That would be Lime Grove then, would it?Roy Fowler: No, no. That would have been Poole Street, Is[…]
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