[…]love painting, and I started to study painting, and I was hoping to be a painter. And then during the inflation which hit Germany very hard, as you remember, all the money was devalued. Practically overnight, it came to 30 trillion marks to a pound. You know, you My father used to change a pound on […]
[…]ird baby there, and I parked in it and I was amazed to find it was suddenly just next row where I had the wrong. I actually saw the house. I didn't remember it, of course, and and from then, I think we were living in Brixton in those days. From Brixton, we went to Clapham and moved around Catan my w[…]
[…]etty well, very nearly born in the film studio. Now my father took time out from his business, and directed a few films, which starred my mother. I remember in particular one called The Lady of Shallot. I think it ran for 10 minutes, The Lady of Shallot, one reel in fact, and what was very special. […]
[…].... th th that was manifested in the behaviour of John Davis to others. He was a really brutal man with his mouth. And I remember when a new homery, Honorary Treasurer of the fund was appointed, a very nice guy and of course qualified, Colin Wills his name was. John Davis took and instant dislike t[…]
[…] I joined the BBC I was brought into the BBC as an announcer because I had an impeccable standard southern English accent and that was the accent I remember in my father who by becoming an officer in the First World War had adopted the conventional Officer's Mess accent. Now if I look back on it and[…]
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[…] a comet which nobody else had seen. He was a member of the Astronomical Society from the early 20s. He […]
[…]umont you just stuck a normal ordinary camera up in front of the monitor and filmed off themonitor and it was all very hit and miss and the thing I remember most about doing this is as onejob that we all loathed to do because of the difference in the phases of electricity, you found thatyou were get[…]
[…]et and now consider myself fully Odeon-Branded. I proudly wore them on many later premieres at the Odeon when Peter often invited me to assist as an “honorary member” of the management team and would continue to do so in my “second stint” with Odeon which provided the grand finale to my cinema life.[…]
[…]t that time was a friend of the young actor who died during the war one working on next of kin, a man called Dickie Norris. And in those days, if I remember right, I think even Freddie Young was working somewhere out there at one stage, but they were making, quote, A quickies. And I spent a consider[…]
