Jimmy Wright

[…]olved in making gunnery training films for the Admiralty and George Gunn who is head of the Canberra department was a near neighbour of ours and friend of a&nbs[…]

Johnny Goodman

[…] might have been Brian Sewell, the man who was the head of... Alan Sapper: Bernard? Johnny Goodman: Vernon Sewell was […]

John Hogarth

[…] Lion. And I thought, "Well that's a pretty good idea." Because I'd read only recently that the highest paid man in the world was Louis B. Mayer, the head of MGM, and I thought, "Well this film lark, probably has got something going for it." And it sounded a bit more interesting than estate agents. […]

Pamela Mann-Francis (nee Mann)

[…]seen with a young, well dressed escort. And it was through this girl that I met, met her husband. There was, there was Theo Cowan,  was the head [of publicity], he always, he always escorted Margaret Lockwood to premiere, Theo. And there were two, these two other boys, John, I think, one w[…]

Godfrey Jennison

[…]e gap.SPEAKER: F5It had something to do with it he was less mature than I think. Looking back on it and she was honest. Yes he was a bright young go ahead with it. So the championship was already a real adults and she was late 20s and early 30s.SPEAKER: F14So I think that made to next next to the of[…]

Cyril Pennington-Richards

[…]gate. And as I walked down the hill from the Monument Station, the very first morning, in my lovely gear, a fish porter who had a pile of fish on his head...you know they used to carry them on these corked hats in those days. He walked right up behind me and just tipped the thing so that all the jui[…]

Geoffrey Conway

[…]ay: Mostly in the production side, I would say getting up to half. Manny Yospa: Quite a lot, enough to be recognized, did you get much help from head office. Geoff Conway: Yes. They did their very best. In fact I can remember when we did have a problem, we took up problems and George Elvin[…]

Cyril Pennington

[…] fish porter who had a pile of fish on his head...you know they used to carry them on these corked […]

Ray Harryhausen

[…]Kong concept and my first experiments were with puppet string puppets. And I made a lot of dinosaurs and and King Kong and my mother helped model the heads in paper mâché and they recently found them in the trunk of my mother's garage. I had kept them all these years and I was shocked that they were[…]

Johnny (Johnny) Goodman

[…]ive a bugger what the shop says in London. There’s no way you’ll show a film on this station made by Yorkshire with London people.' And so I was head of a company which couldn’t make anything. We made one pilot of Robin Hood for a guy in America called Sandy Frank.”   BECTU History[…]
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