John Turner

[…]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 […]

Ken Adam

Ken Adam (KA)Art Director, Production DesignerBECTU No.416Interviewer: Rodney Giesler (RG)Date 12/03/1997 & 29/07/19973 Tapes 12/03/1997Side 100:00:00 – 00:29:30 Introductions; born 1921 in Berlin; upper middle class family, German-Jewish; his father had a sports store in Berlin and used to[…]

John Cotter

[…]em - especially at party conferences,especially when you see them on a social plane too, drink with them in the bar at the hotel atnight.Q What about international politicians?A Well, the only one I knew....Q Summit meetings?Α Well, not really, no, not a lot. That Tito, I got on well with Tito becau[…]

Joe Busuttil

[…] of the old boys, and, you know, we did this fireman’s course, you know, the whole lot.  I think that’s what saved the family’s life because the golden rule is you just get the hell out, shut the doors and get out and never go back.  So we got out of that place and it went up like one of t[…]

Bill Ward

This transcript has been produced automatically using Otter, 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 […]

Mary Harvey (Welford)

[…]e. Then the question was, and the NFFC was a sort of stormy situation.NFFC had a share in British Lion?They had, yes, there was something called ‘The Golden Share’.That's right.And I didn't, I'm not very good at this, the...But, but the thing was that, that you must know something about, because tha[…]

Ron Moody

[…] not to be defeated by an aggressive audience. I also think the same thing applied to Shakespeare. Nobody seems to agree with me. I hope that the new Globe Theatre will try to recreate what was, and that is an audience of drunks, you know, carousing with their women and probably having sex in the on[…]
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