[…]arc light. The arc light was an immense thing called the brute. It was big, it was very heavy. It was so heavy that two men were required to lift the head of the lamp off the floor and place it on the stand which would support it. And then it had an enormous device to convert the electricity from DC[…]
[…] we arrived, we lived in Streatham and that, in a way was the best thing that happened. Because we were sent to school, where there was (a) wonderful headmistress called Miss Lefroy, who apparently was a famous person, I didn't know. But you know, she was, she, she liked us (laughter). And that was […]
[…] watch them on wall and hope they didn't fall off. I know terrible moments like seeing Daniel strike off into the middle of an Irish lough, until his head was no more than a crotchett head you know it was so tiny in the distance thinking, what if he sinks. I can't swim, like that. And all those thin[…]
[…] downstairs to the toilet, was sick, and he got his head caught in the toilet! [Laughing] We had to go […]
[…] a job at Sainsbury's at Bla ckfriars, which was the head office I think of Sainsbury's in those days, well […]
[…]d auditioned for. Now America has got strict rules about British actors and American actors, quite understandably, but Clarence Derwent was the head of American Equity and he was originally from this country and he got to know me and he said “I can’t think of another actor here, an American ac[…]
