Derek Threadgall

[…] right. Well I mean what what year shall we pick up with. Um what if we in essence 65 races but also Shepperton.SPEAKER: M17Yeah we we we we go on to Sean and Roy sitting in frank I by one or two others there as well.SPEAKER: M11Do you remember we'll break. End of Side 4

David Watkin

David Watkin (DW)Director of PhotographyBECTU No. 320Interviewer: Alan Lawson (AL) and John Legard (JL)Date 03/03/19943 Tapes Side 100:00:00 – 00:12:00 Introductions; born in Margate, 1925; father was a solicitor for Southern Rail; lived in Margate until the war; as a child DW would got to the […]

BEHP Newsletter #3.final__0


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Jenny Barraclough

[…]d I made a big sequence about waiting for Rajesh; the factthat he was never there. In the end I had to make a sequence of this, shooting us in all theseante rooms and so on. So the film was fun in the end but it was quite hard to give it anysubstance. You know.47’56”SRThat seems to show to me a coup[…]

Angela Allen

[…]Young Toscanini when I first met him. And then I’ve just finished Hamlet in 1990. I… the name… the title has escaped me of a film I did in India with Andrew McLachlan. I did another one with him in the North Sea, Hijacker I think that was called. I did a horrible film called… and it changed titles s[…]

BEHP Management Meeting 22 Aug 17

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Peggy Gick

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[…] [Copyright Larry Allen ] Transcription Date: 2002-07-08 Interview Date: 1996-04-11 Interviewer: Rodney Giesler Interviewee: Larry Allen Tape 1, Side 1 This […]

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