[…]h your existing rank plus time-out." So I took it. I came out of the Navy just before the invasion, which was silly really. And then I got a job with Gaumont. Now, it was very highly paid and I had - the programme was arranged, the films - the three films I was going to make in the first year. 'Hous[…]
[…] 25:00 Yes,I do. Because there was a strong connection between this and what I subsequently did. I think the most interesting people were Gaumont British instructional, was then , headed up by Bruce Wolf, remember, and he that he had no studio of his own at the time and used to use[…]
[…] days, the Rank Organisation owned two circuits, the Odeon and Gaumont. And if Del made a film, John Davis would […]
[…] and many others. But of course he went off to Gaumont's and started directing on his own. But I think […]
[…] July 1908. He began as an office boy with the Gaumont company in Denham Street. By 1934 he was working […]
[…] years of making a great many of these Aldwych comedies with us, let's think 'Canaries Sometimes Sing', and many others. But of course he went off to Gaumont's and started directing on his own. But I think that was us it was always Herbert Wilcox that was directing it. 'Thark', that's another Aldwyc[…]
[…]tter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-transcription/.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for any misinterpretation of the content of this interview.However, the BEHP wants t[…]
[…]that was the first sound film made at the Bush. Maurice Elvey was the director, Jameson Thomas and Benita Hume, Humberston Wright and the rest of the Gaumont repertory company were in that. I was still, I think by that time I'd been upgraded, I was no longer the number boy, 1 was the first assistant[…]
[…] at a later period when I was an actor, the Gaumont-British up in Kilburn - because I lived in Golders […]
