Alf Cooper

[…]ight up until, what, the mid Fifties, I mean when we were havingtrouble with the, the, mm, FLA it was then wasn’t it before the ALFE, the FLA. I mean George used to, George Elvin, I went with him once, would go out to lunch with Roy andsign an agreement with him and then we’d go back to, back to the[…]

Sidney Cole

[…]res there for some time and Worked on quite a few films in a short time. I also worked on 'Royal Cavalcade'. It was designed to celebrate 25 years of George V as reigning monarch. Everybody in the studio worked on that – all the editors, all the directors. And it was run so close to time that 36 hou[…]

Maurice Carter

[…]ime with makingfilms. They gave me a special task, the studio actually was making the parts for thetrainers the xxx trainer. I did a lot of were with George Hill, I don't know if youremember George Hill, he was in the camera department at Lime Grove. Wonderful man,who was highly experienced with the[…]

Keith Ewart

[…]at, how do you rate the the art directors and the advertising agencies? Then, then,Keith Ewart  25:18  well, wonderful. I mean, people like George Butler, J will Thompson, Ashley, having done at Crawfords, Arpad Alpha even. I mean, oh, the monster, Shelly Shelton, the monster, monstrous ma[…]

Dennis Main Wilson

[…]DMW: We've had odd riots and things there that you know that there was a certain dignity about a school, but to get to our grammar school, “cor, ‘ere George Wilson’s boy Den, he’s got himself a scholarship, Christ.” So you go there in your best suit. The master was a chap called Maurice M.A (Oxon) a[…]

Bernie Andrews

[…]tly that time when The Beatles started, and just after that, I was sharing a flat  with a friend of mine who…  he was a personal manager of George in The Beatles and subsequently George used to come round to the flat quite a lot and some of the others, and I was quite friendly with them.&n[…]

Jonathan Balcon

[…]hink he acquired with Reg Baker, quite a number of Associated Talking Picture shares from Steven Courthauld. One of the contracts he had taken on was George Formby, of course, well now, whereas we all know that George Formby was a talented player of the ukulele, his wife I understand was the most fo[…]

Roy Fowler

[…]y rehearsal, which was all over town in various places and one marked out the floor with tape. And I mostly was on drama and so there I remember what George Moore O’Farrell was my favourite, George was a very, very sensitive director. It's strange how some of them were very, very good indeed but the[…]

Dicky Leeman

[…]the theatre?Rodney Giesler: Yes.Dicky Leeman: Well I suppose mostly the music hall, of course the inevitable people like Max Miller for instance, and George Robey, who was a famous comedian of his day. And I did have the wonderful thrill of working with him once much later on in television, when Bil[…]

Anne V Coates

[…]hich he couldn’t do. And Bob McNaught, who was a friend of Clive’s and mine, was the producer or line, they call now line producer I suppose. Because George... Oh. Renown. Was it Renown? George Minter. Yes. George Minter was the producer. But anyway, Bob McNaught, as I say, was the kind of, li[…]
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