Paul Fox

[…] Dimmock did that.  But this was in the days before telerecording.  Telerecording was not available in those days.  Telerecording with Jimmy Redman didn’t really come till quite a bit later.  So that night…we had film cameras along the route as well, and then filmed…put a compila[…]

Tilly Day

[…]illy Day: James Knight...Sidney Cole: Oh, James Knight?Tilly Day: Do you remember him?Sidney Cole: Yes, vaguely...Tilly Day: Jimmy Knight.Sidney Cole: Yeah.Tilly Day: That's me...Sidney Cole: Oh that's you dressed up, at the top of the stairs there?Tilly Day:&[…]

Francis Searle

[…]ucked without getting kissed.Speaker 1  2:59  Yes, that's right, that's it be that sort of thing, you know, and sort of running around, and Jimmy Bannon is RollsRoy Fowler  3:10  Royce, so they weren't doing badly. Oh no. It's astonishing how much money was just ripped out of the[…]

Yvonne Littlewood

[…]bsp;Saturday Night at the Palace was another variety series we used to do, you were invited to join the audience for bills like Richard Murdoch, Jimmy Edwards.Yes.And others, and Doreen Austin’s Gaiety Girls. And other ones similarly, Ronald Franco, Anne Shelton, Claude Dampier and Billie Carly[…]

Charles Picken

[…] By the time I started as a trainee, Norman’s health had deteriorated and he was never to work at this unit again. He would eventually be replaced by Jimmy Corrance who had been working for an independent chain in Bellshill at the time. Jimmy hit a bit of flack from other Odeon Chiefs in other units[…]

Val Guest

[…]od called Patrick Knowles, a stand in, Michael Rennie, a stand in and extra, Stewart Grainger, a stand in, Michael Wilding, a stand in and extra, not Jimmy Grainger. But there were a gang of us that used to be there, whether were were working or writing or doing extra work.RF: It sounds rather like […]

Dennis Main Wilson

[…] was wild. Already at the Windmill [Theatre] had been Harry Secombe whom I saw at the Windmill and Michael Bentine, whom I’d seen at the Windmill and Jimmy Edwards, whom I’d seen at the Windmill[Pause]DMW:  10:35The Windmill was the proving ground for returning talent. Six shows a day with stat[…]

Bernie Andrews

[…]Oh they don’t have an audience at all”,  so I said, “Oh I’d love to go and see it being recorded.”  And he said, “Well it just happens that Jimmy Grant, who’s the producer, is a very good friend of mine.  Leave it with me and I’ll have a word with him.”  15:14 And I had[…]

Jimmy Wright

[…]voluntary offers to proofread this and/or other interviews. If you want to help, please contact BEHP Secretary,  sue.malden@btinternet.com. Jimmy Wright I'll be right off. This recording is vested in the Act t history pr[…]

Chili (Dorothy) Bouchier

[…]take us in to Hollywood, and all along the route in to Hollywood there was this - above the shops, and the cafes - the one word. Chili. And I said to Jimmy, “isn’t that lovely. What a lovely Hollywood welcome, I said it really is fabulous”. He said “there’s something else up there”...I said “what is[…]
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