Gus Walker

[…]was, I knew mount man on in which we serve, and of course, he was the king pin in South East Asia. But I never saw him. But when I did Orient Express John Bray born, I said. He said, Well, if you want to speak to the old man, go and talk to him, he said. So I went up and I spoke to him about not abo[…]

Gordon McCallum

[…]m : By writing...that's all. My father did know somebody in the industry, whom he'd played golf with, and that led to an interview at Shepperton with John Cox, who did his best to frighten me and suggested I shouldn't go into the business. And he said, "Well when we get to Denham there'll be some jo[…]

Peter Lamont

[…]r pictures and there I got my call-up. And I did go on to a film called Esther Waters and it was the introduction of Dirk Bogarde and [John Howard?] he was kind of special effects with Bill Morris and all of that. He was kind of very learned and he had this… who was the famous do[…]

John Cotter

7 hours 45 minutesJohn CotterThis is an interview with John Cotter recorded by Rodney Giesler on 5 July 1997 in ChargeSomerset. Copyright in this recording is vested in the Becta World History Project.C) John can you tell me a bit about when you were born and about your family background?A Yes, cert[…]

Hugh Attwooll

[…]l mix ups that happen in in those days. And I remember getting down into the makeup department one morning and looking for Meg's Jenkins and Rosamond John was in the chair, and I said where's a Meg she's gone. She's home in bed as in my dear she's supposed to be here was the first time she'd been su[…]

L P (Bill) Williams

[…]inion, Herbert Wilcox's company. He was playing Robespierre, and 'When Knights Were Bold', that was another film that Nelson Keys was in. His son was John Paddy Carstairs. Nelson Keys had three or four sons - I've forgotten which, but they were all in films, technical side of film. Well anyhow...Rod[…]

David Attenborough

[…] her co interviewer. And Mary Adams had put her foot down on account of this was improper and I was caught in this but I didn't know this at the time.John Reid was producing it and I was told that the person I had to interview was a long distance runner called Gordon Pirie. So we were sat on a sofa […]
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