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[…]her, from the stage, odd stage things and tours that I did, the reason that I first went into filming was through Lupino Lane, and Lupino Lane was working at BIP and I did my first bits and pieces in screenplays I had written for him and then a little later on I did the same thing down at Warner Bro[…]
[…] to put, I 10 think they used to call them King Cans, they were a floodli ght of a sort, […]
[…]Powell, I remember Billy Russell who drove us mad because, as a child I didn’t take in the jokes really, but he used to just stand there. The working man’s comedian, he was. And I remember, he always had a pipe and he struck a match and he would just go to light the pipe and he’d[…]
[…] and Will Hay, as well as serious dramas such as King of the Damned (1935). During the War, Harris served […]
[…]bsp; My Mum and Dad rowing. MDThose were the days before television… BAOh we didn’t have… I bought our first television after I had been working for about four or five years. My parents couldn’t afford a television, and I got one on hire purchase when I was about twenty or something.[…]
[…]nkly, because my father was a watchmaker. I think he was pitched forked into that by his mother because he wasn't, he didn't have his heart in watchmaking he was really a frustrated actor, which, of course, is where I get my various proclivities from, I think. He somehow got to know my mother and un[…]
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BECTU History Project
Interviewee Anne V Coates  Interviewer  Roy Fowler
[Track 1]
I’m just checking [inaudible]. Right. And, the subject today is Anne V Coates, who is [inaudible] the doyenne of British editrices I guess one would say.
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