[…]ed. And so I joined MGM, which I thought would step in the right direction, in that they had come out with a full Hollywood unit with Stuart Granger, Jimmy Granger, Deborah Carr, Michael Richard Carlson, to make King Solomon's mine in 49 and they employed what we laughingly called poor whites, the p[…]
[…]moves and my career progress and I think that I actually must have met him at GBI,and that’s James Hill.Vivienne Collins DRAFT. Tape 1 Side B51AL: Oh Jimmy Hill?Yes. And James Hill rang me up apparently out of the blue and offered me achildrens’ feature at World Wide.AL: I’m going to stop you there,[…]
[…]nd Guilds and past, I think, or something or other. However, come 19, 1935 this was 1932. Come 1935 and 1935 there was an internal memo came round seeking volunteers to join the experimental television service at Alexandra Palace. And I read this memo. I was now 19 I read this memo, and I said, that[…]
[…]I got this Scots part. Now who were the other people in it, Joyce Howard, Googie Withers?RG: Lily Palmer?RJ: Lily Palmer, yes now she was a bitch,RG: Jimmy Hanley had a small part of courseRJ: Did he? I'd forgotten about thatRG: Now there's a scene in a guards van on a trainRJ: Yes that's rightRG: I[…]
[…]o at least other cameramen, there were three, one from Pathe, old Ken Gordon as a matter of fact, and a guy from the then short-lived Metro News, and Jimmy Gemmell from Paramount, so there were four of us all in all there. Oh and Ronnie Noble from Universal, five. And everybody it so happened that d[…]
[…]the old time stars.Roy Fowler: And it was the heyday of music hall?Reg Sutton: Of course it was, yes and I used to drink with them and eat with them, Jimmy James, Claude Dampier, the Chocolate Coloured Coon, all these old stars, Robey, and the scotsman �Roy Fowler: � Will Fyfe?Reg Sutton: Will Fyfe,[…]
[…] of large independents.INT Like Granada?MF: Granada, exactly. In the north there was HD Moorhouse - I think they probably had about 25-30 situations, Jimmy Brennan who was quite a character, there was Star Cinemas, the Eckharts - there were quite a number of them and they were doing well because of […]
[…]ose days and it was absolutely like being in a concentration camp. So that was that. Some more actors, some actors that one worked with in those days Jimmy Dean, Chuck Heston. Now there is a young lady who got fired, I was doing a show called The Web that was produced by someone called Frank Heller,[…]
[…]f in advertising magazines. Bill Hitchcock, who I'd worked with at the BBC when he was a writer was directing advertising magazines, and the one with Jimmy Hanley, which later became "Jim's Inn" it  wasn't called "Jim's Inn" at that time, I don't think but that was what it was. And Bill's wife […]
[…]ng a cameraman there, he also was making quite a little bit of money on renting out his equipment. Then, a little later, there was a cameraman called Jimmy Rogers, James Rogers, who I worked for, and of course, later still, Claude Friese Greene, who was the son of William Friese Greene, who we, in E[…]