[…]er to tainton and get a job on the film, if you see so I said, fair enough. So I went over and saw an interview with Charlie evening, and they were making murder at Monte Carlo, at that particular time. I don't remember who was in it. And they said, Yes, I could start over there. They were changing […]
[…] and some were just - nothing, but became directors. George King, he had no experience of anything but he became […]
[…]eish? R: No, no, I then, but I knew Ian Dalgleish. He wasn't in the Citizens' but I met him in the street one day and he said to me, "They're looking for an Announcer in STV." I said, "Well, I don't want to be an Announcer! I've decided to go to Perth!" And he said, "Yeah, but you're idle at th[…]
[…]er - she - I do know that she did - she did pick part - she was part of a woman’s roller skating troop - difficult to say - a wo- a woman’s roller staking troop, which is how she met my father, she was on the same variety bill and then - er - so when my father was on stage - er - working eventually […]
[…] remember, I'm not only nine years of age, and this was between the afternoon matinee and evening show. And I heard Harry S Pepper, the producers speaking to my mother and father on the telephone. And the conversation went something like this. Dora and Max, I'm sorry to tell you. I think the kids wa[…]
[…]lf and then we’d be off somewhere else.Yes. This was because of your father was it?Well, and mother, they were both actors.Yes, ah, ha.Oh actually looking back I have no roots because we never stayed anywhere long enough.Now let’s, let’s store it up. There’s also, there’s Hugh Rignold?Hugo, yes.2Wel[…]
[…]ystem that they installed?Vernon Sewell: RCA.Roy Fowler: It was RCA? Ah ha.Vernon Sewell: RCA. A very primitive machine it was too, looking at it from modern standards.Roy Fowler: Do you have any particular recollections of those early 'talkies'?Vernon Sewell: Hmm?Roy Fowler[…]
[…] backs on us. And no one really dared breathe. And then they'd swing around on us again, it was a great theatrical display. And of course, to any thinking person, it's quite clear that my job now since I've ceased to be an actor, is to preach sermons, to millions of people. That's that's what I do. […]
[…]ion, this was it, Jimmy Verity, bought a sound van for £ 100 and he wanted my father to pay for this van, we were going to go round the countryside making films and he turned that down as well . I'm sure he was quite right because I'm sure Jimmy Verity, may god bless him was a queer as a coot, and t[…]
