[…] also used to have a man in Liverpool called Jimmy Humphries, one of the real old timers who used to […]
[…] according to Bill, he positively preferred to place work with Humphries lab in Whitfield Street. Although Bill was very much […]
[…]ssed their 16 mm, their news footage was done at Balmore but I'm not quite sure if any drama footage was done there or not. I: Balmore, was that Humphries, the labs that were running Balmore or was it Rank. R: It might have been Humphries. To be honest, I'm not quite sure. [19:22]I: S[…]
[…]t down on my luck on the Italian Job. And I was in the theatre with Peter Collison, the director, and we were dubbing the film, Twickenham with Jerry Humphries. And the phone rang, they said, Oh, John, there's a call come through from Pinewood Studios. So I tapped out into the room and Peter Colliso[…]
[…] doing it there. From there my brother thought that. When I was about fifteen my brother was managing a laboratory, or a section of it, called George Humphries laboratory off Tottenham Court Road. And he said ‘I think it’s time you started earning your living’. And I was only fifteen and he said ‘I […]
[…] an age, you know, but I remember having a hilarious lunch at Wheelers in Old Compton Street with Mick, Bruce Beresford and Dame Edna Everage - Barry Humphries. Roy Fowler 40:11 In drag? Jonathan Balcon 40:12 No, no. Barry was himself […]
[…]e was from 35mm down to sixteen, and that's the only...a day on that camera and every...you know...it was all done. And we used to bundle stuff up to Humphries, up to the top of the road, get it down and, you know, within... in the afternoon, and then of course we went to Kays, and Kays moved their […]
[…]I: Yeah? Shot earlier but released later.CB: YesI: And Reggie Denham as director. Was he a fun director?CB: Oh, yeah, he was nice. YesI: And Whitmore Humphries. He’s a lovely name...CB: No, he didn’t sort of appear anymore, I don’t think. I never met him again. (laughs) I: It’s almost a Peter Seller[…]