E M (Michael) Smedley Aston

[…]who Maxwell had taken down to Elstree in charge of production. Well he was in charge in of production but the title he had then...he was never called Head of Production, he never got the screen credit as Head of Production, he was the Scenario Editor. And he had about I should think eight writers un[…]

Dicky Leeman

[…]nything up to about a hundred guys standing outside the gate, waiting, hoping that the foreman would say, "Such-and-such wants a plasterer..." or the head chippy wanted another chippy and things like that. And I lived in Eldon Avenue in those days, because although I was freelance, I...Rodney Giesle[…]

Charles Bennett

[…]as a very brilliant woman. The result was that when I did go to a school - St. Mark's College in Chelsea - for about a year, I was top of the school, head of the class in every way. So, obviously she was a better teacher than I could have found anywhere else. That was all. At fourteen I gave up ever[…]

Douglas Slocombe

[…] because I felt, I felt that at the time, it was, you know, it was a picture that I felt should have been at least nominated for something, an act of head. It wasn't, actually, but, but it was, but it was an interesting picture to work on.Unknown Speaker  27:59  Did you have difficulty wit[…]

Charles Bennett

[…] for about a year, I was top of the school, head of the class in every way. So, obviously she […]

Jim Whittell

[…]anager, notably Whitley Bay, the beautiful Lonsdale in Carlisle, and by my birth he was the area manager for Union Cinemas based at the Ritz in Birkenhead, hence I was born in Birkenhead.00:03:09        And the Ritz, beautiful Ritz cinema was bombed and my life the[…]

John (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 Project -[…]

Ann Turner

[…]ey said I live got an exhibition on my general paper alone before the war, but because of the women's intake from ex service, and as I had a Scottish Headmistress, she said I was far too individual for Edinburgh, because they had general classes of about 1000. You know, doing English or early stages[…]

Pat Jackson

[…] spring that you had to attach to open the velvet lock, so that you could feed the film into the magazine. And of course, I got flustered and lost my head completely! I was in there an hour and a half and I thought I'd got it in, all was fine, but of course, the bloody cap of the magazine hadn't bee[…]

Johnny Goodman

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