[…]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[…]
[…]ria the Great' we did 'Sixty Glorious Years'. Which we had a great deal of government co-operation. Through Sir Robert Vansittart. And of course King George VI he was very keen on what went on with that because they had had a copy of 'Victoria the Great' sent up to Balmoral and the Royal Family had […]
[…]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[…]
[…]like "Trevor, make a note, please tell Ian not to do too much". And that's where we were then. I did it. I then came up with a brilliant idea because George Rylands was the big man there at Kings and he was a lecturer and I liked him a lot. He liked me actually, and I assisted him on his […]
[…]t my father saying to him, if you're a very good boy, I'll give you a pathescope, which was a 9.5 patheescope projector for your birthday. Now I knew George wouldn't be interested because he got out with he's got to have a railway track. So I got hold of pa and said if I'm a very good boy, could I h[…]
[…]. Well it wasn’t a very huge ballroom at Balmoral, quite intimate, of course all the ladies with their diamonds, and the men in their kilts, old King George was falling off his seat laughing., It went down very well, we met their Majesty’s afterwards, and they congratulated us, then we went back to […]
[…]tle Street Welsh Baptist Chapel, which is still there today of course.Roy Fowler: Hmm.Eddie Dryhurst: Well, members of his choir included David Lloyd George, D.H. Evans and John Lewis.Roy Fowler: John Lewis of the store?Eddie Dryhurst: He was in the choir, yes.Roy Fowler: Ah ha. Now there can't be m[…]
[…] a few months older than me and his name was George. (There's a picture of him over there I've got, […]
[…] ended up with the National Film Board in Ottawa - George Crowle[?]. And he went out there and he con […]
