[…]r: But you spoke Russian as well?Reggie Beck: I spoke only Russian to begin with.Wyn Ryder: Really.Reggie Beck: Yes, of which I remember very little now.Wyn Ryder: Then you went to school over here. It must have been quite a struggle?Reggie Beck: Strangely enough it was[…]
[…] the filming point of view probably, although I’ve won a number of awards in Milan and New York and the American festivals, the one that I probably remember most is being Runner-up for the Prix Italia in – think – 1978, that long ago, with a programme called ‘Test Tube Explosion’. At that time I’d b[…]
[…]it was ’74, so I went on the knocker in Leicester, for the Labour Party, and we kicked the Tory out. A guy called Jim Marshall – who was elected, I remember that was one of the first things I did. That was an eye opener for me 3 because it was the first time I had met Asian people, Asian c[…]
[…]in it. And I said “well, why don’t you have a new hat?” and he said “no, I’ll mend the hole” so he sewed up the hole in the hat, and (laughs) and I remember we met someone in a pub or a bar once, and er…the guy said (attempts accent) “aren’t you a peanut planter?” because they were doing a peanut sc[…]
[…]m knowing I don’t know how I did it, but I did it. There I acted with people like Alfie Bass, Bill Owen and all kinds of people whose names I can’t remember. Ted Willis was writing for us at the time, and all kinds of actors and actresses who later became professional actors and actresses and […]
[…]ee so you were very, very lucky. So that was my technical adviser. So all the time we never saw Jackie. Lunch time it was arranged that I would be an Honorary Member of the Ward Room Mess that I could buy my round of drinks. And so we had to go there, with the sound crew, and on a Flag Ship there is[…]
[…]nager’s secretary.1: Who was the studio manager at that time?Mike Johnson. His brother is Dennis Johnson, the production manager.1: That’s right, I remember him. And at first you were just secretary to the...?Yes, I was. I had no intention of going on the floor, I didn’t even know what supervisorsor[…]
[…]und. Yes it's slightly lower than the studio cat. The days in the days of optical sound of course appears across. What was it. What pictures do you remember that were there being shot was the young Mr Pitt. I remember very vividly that was the first film that was Harry Reid who was with Robert dunni[…]
[…]urite, and Will Fyffe who had gone into films of course by that time, and Harry Gordon, the Laird of Inversnecky, there was Jack Radcliffe, I can't remember all of them. The ones I remember were Jack Radcliffe and Dave Willis because they were my favourites. And in the summertime they used to do the[…]
