[…]w them, and they thought I was ‘clean’, and er (laughing) respectful, and er…so I got the job as third assistant on ‘Room for Two’, which starred Vic Oliver, who was a music-hall comedian, and Francis Day, who was a cabaret lady really. It wasn’t much of a film, but it was based on a play, like a lo[…]
[…]gentleman, which was once ridiculous when needed. Stephen Peet 35:12 So you kind of slid into being a producer, it was the golden years of being able to do that. Wasn't that? Mike Fentiman 35:17 Unbelievable? Yes, absolutely. And a lot of people […]
[…]s quite near where I lived in rice. And they had this lovely, big house in Northwood with orchards in the garden and all that sort of stuff. Very pleasant place to work, but that was fine, but I wasn't interested in the work. You know, by this time I was doing gigs in the evenings. We used to do the[…]
[…]ere I was, the chief 'humper' in those days, humping gear for various cameramen. The first job I went out was with Jimmy Humphries who was a very pleasant man but we went to the zoo to film an okapi which had just come over here, it was some weird animal, a bit like a zebra. And I didn't know until […]
