[…]lled because Gus Kochswho was his assistant who had come from the same direction as I had in decoration, Ithink he came from Hamptons. Then there was John Howell, I think he was set decoratorat that time as far as I can remember. He worked both ways, he was partly a draftsmenand partly set decorator[…]
[…]sm towards you I think wanted to there was there was a guy by name of John Allen who is half a Wall Street and John was a pain in the arse J[…]
[…] other distinguished member of the family who also came from that part of the world and his grandfather was Louis' brother, was my distant cousin Sir John Balcombe, B A L C O M B E, who was a Lord of Appeal and a very distinguished judge, who died last year and had the most marvellous ecumenical ser[…]
[…]t was later. He came from Marconi.HARRY MILLER: Atkins came from the GPO, and he built the telephone exchange at the studios at the time. John Reynders who was the musical director at the time he used to be the conductor who played and orchestrated all the music for a cinema against the […]
BECTU History ProjectInterview no: 398Interviewee: Vivienne CollinsInterviewer: John Legard and Alan Lawson No of tapes 3Duration: 3:50:151Vivienne Collins Tape 1 Side ANB: The time codes given here are estimates based on readings from the original cassette recording.Tape 1 Side A.The copyright of t[…]
[…]cousin, my Canadian cousin, Reg Bromeley had arrived with a number of his mates. Now Reg was a PhD in America, he'd he'd worked on human behaviour at John Hopkins University in I think it's in Massachusetts and he had a very distinguished impending career as a psychologist. And the moment the war st[…]
[…]Because I like to talk about my family background from that. Because it has a bearing on what happens. In fact I'll start with what happened.In 1965. Johnny Speight and I – Johnny Speight the author, well established had been writing a very successful series for commercial television, called the Art[…]
[…]st astonishing film of an MP, in 1917, called Noel Pemberton Billing. I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of him. Well he was a quite a – he was like a Johnsonian [Boris Johnson] figure of his day, but extremely right-wing, he was quite posh, he designed motor cars, fast motor cars, he designed aeropl[…]
[…]us jobs as an assistant director I worked with her but Wilcox and Anna Neagle. On a filmmaker Denham cord they flew alone, which was the story of Amy Johnson, the great aviator and Jim Mollison, who she married. Robert Newton played the part there. There are a lot of Russians on it because Robert Ne[…]
