Search Results for: Lifetime Achievement Award at the Women in Film and Television Awards (2010)

[…]g crew for those days. I had 27 electricians, three on sound, you know, a big crew. Anyway, the film had a quite successful career, including sort of awards of which the one that sort of sticks in my mind as I was invited to the Brussels Budapest Hungarian embassy. And in fact, having a chat with th[…]

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[…]volved in an accident in the Edgware Road very early on and swore he'd never drive. So he always had a chauffeur. He always had, we only had in in my lifetime, we had two chauffeurs both from the same family, father and son. They were both called Shackleton. And I remember well, it must have been ab[…]

[…]t telling the story right you may as well forget it. So that was one of the valuable lessons I learnt there.Alan Lawson: Every shot is not an Academy Award.Freddie Francis: No, sometimes, I have a wonderful camera operator called Gordon Hayman who has just been with me ever since French Lieutenant's[…]

[…] origin.That I've been to an ad in Williams's, it's been two of Nigerians in Parliament, and no one is great in Ireland getting good health during my lifetime. And the other was my grandfather was an IBM should have been a liberal MP for the Constitution of Durham until about 96, was the first perso[…]

[…]and to Telecinè like carrying a baby. [interviewers’ laughter] And it did rather well, it, it got written up in the 33:00 ‘Mirror’; which was a major achievement for a sort of documentary.Norman Swallow: I think ‘Chronicle’ was a marvellous series.Julia Cave: I think it was a marvellous series. […]

[…]er, I did The Ted Heath Band Show, which was just wonderful, it was something out of this world, something I shall never forget and a treat in a lifetime to do and I shall never forget it.What especially pleased you?DS: It was just doing this marvellous music, this wonderful band, this huge ban[…]

[…]d loved to have been like Freddie Young. That would have given me enormous satisfaction. The kind of respect everybody has for him. For his technical achievements, remarkable man.Arthur Graham: Thank you Alan for a very successful interview. 

[…]lls. So not quite a Cockney, but can you tell me a bit about your family and how you came to be in the film industry?Right. My family consisted of a father who was in the engineering business, who would started making his own films and when he was young man just after the the First World War. So we […]