John Schlesinger

[…]year. And my parents had a little Queen Ann house, small house in the country that they rented for £1 a week in Berkshire, and we were all moved from London to down there. And my father went into the army and we saw very little of him in those years, because he was in India for 4 years and he was in[…]

Gordon Hales

[…]licity. He would give me the job and as a time when the compliment allowed two juniors to be taken on he was as good as his word. And in 1938, I left London I lived in digs at  Blackheath, I was paid two pounds 10 a week and was a bit mortified that Jack Lee the other boy Jack had almost paid t[…]

Paul Collard

[…]t to be a researcher so I also wanted to do something that had a public facing front. So, I joined the marketing graduate scheme, and…SS: Was this in London?PC: This was in London, yes, I went to University in Birmingham and in London I joined Kodak in Kingsway in there very grand building there and[…]

Margaret Thomson

[…]Yes, right.  Gloria Sachs  28:10  What a fantastic experience. Margaret Thomson  28:13  So then I got to, I got back to London and then had to look for work again. And I got another job with Strand Film Unit, again in the cutting rooms. By this time they were at Merton […]

Emmanuel (Manny) Yospa

[…]al comedy, she had a small part in one, she acted the gypsy really. [Chuckling] And I was travelling in my car so I gave her a lift home, a lift into London. And we started chatting and it seemed as though - [chuckles] she told me that she was born in Carnaby Street and her father had a tailor's wor[…]

Cyril Pennington

[…] were you born? Cyril Pennington-Richards: I was born in South London in 1911, December 17th 1911...I almost made Edward V11 […]

Philip Bonham-Carter

[…] in working with Truffaut, on Omnibus, about his life.But, to go back, we then moved to Gerards Cross from Fulmer, and I got into St Paul’s School in London, so it meant going up and down on the train. Which was quite a trek. DB: What ambitions formed in your young head at that time? PB-C:[…]

Peggy Gick

[…] moved around Scotland, from Invergordon to Aberdeen to Edinburgh, and we came back to Weymouth for a bit when he was travelling, and then came up to London. First of all we lived down in Kent and went to school there. I went to art school...I left school at the age of fifteen...John Legard: In Kent[…]

Graham Smart

[…]ch was about a historical film about building of the railways in East Africa. So we found out all this information and we started when we got back to London we started receiving this film and it was quite a fascinating project in that the they dressed a lot of people up in old costume and they showe[…]

Vernon Sewell

[…] situated? Where they then on Soho Square? Vernon Sewell: In London, Finsbury? Roy Fowler: Finsbury, that's right, yes Finsbury Square. […]
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