Wendy Toye

[…]t quite a lot of film experience quite early on.WT: Yes, and I danced, there was just a little dance sequence which I was in, with an Irish comedian, Jimmy, I can’t remember 5 his name, but I was in a lot of films like that. And I was in a film with the Crazy Gang, but when these films are show[…]

Dicky Leeman

[…]remember another occasion, one of the first films I did there at Joe Rock's was The Cotton Queen, with Will Fyffe, Stanley Holloway, Mary Lawson, and Jimmy Hanley. And we were filming on the old Radlett Road, the A5, and suddenly a big car swooped up - and Bernard Vorhaus who was the director, refer[…]

Richard Marden

[…]t too much because they'd have to be BP they'd have to have night shooting explained the whole thing to me. Thanked me for it. And in the end we shot Jimmy Edwards  was playing the trombone. But I've never I never worked for Val again. It's aAlan Legard  4:34  good way but that's part[…]

L P (Bill) Williams

[…]w, but I never worked with them but I knew them because of Freddie Young you see. Freddie knew themRodney Giesler : James Wong Howe...L.P. Williams : Jimmy Wong Howe, the first time I met him I went to a cameraman's society dinner. When I went to Hollywood as part of my contract, I had it written in[…]

Harry Fowler

[…]at occasion because that was full of the cream of English character artists. [Hermione] Baddeley; again Thora [Hird] was in it –McG: James Hayter.HF: Jimmy Hayter. Oh James Donald; Nigel Patrick being brilliant as Mr Jingle. He had that quality, that elvish quality slightly overplayed, but then you […]

Jonathan Balcon

[…]st then. And we know the subsequent story from there, but they did initially, they made a number of films: "There Ain't No Justice", "The Ware Case", Jimmy Handley was in one or two of them.Jonathan Balcon  41:47  As a child presumably?Jonathan Balcon  43:04  No in "There Ain't N[…]

Cyril Page

[…]..cor! that was like, ooh, you know, absolutely marvellous. He said "Right, I'd like to have you on my next film. So, the...the Loading Boy, he...er, Jimmy, I forget his name now...er...he showed me what to do with some waste film in the Dark Room, and I used to practice and practice and practice. A[…]

Edward Dryhurst

[…]le comedies for a time. And I stayed at Universal until I eventually came home - that's very detailed in the book as you know, because of the trouble Jimmy Bryson got himself into here in London with the establishment.Roy Fowler: Yes.Eddie Dryhurst: What I was supposed to do about it I don't know bu[…]

Mike Hodges

[…]e days called advertising magazines. They were hysterically funny actually is one very famous one in London called "Jim's Inn", which was a pub where Jimmy Hanley would be behind the bar. And they would introduce all these products in the most often comedic way - it wasn't meant to be comedic becaus[…]
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