[…]ewed by Linda Wood, 20 May 1991, recordist Dave Robson. File 197SIDE 1, TAPE 1LW: Can you say when and where you were born?WT: I was born in 1917, in London, May 1st.LW: Where about in London?WT: Upper Clapton. North London, it was very pretty in those days, it had a village pond which I fell into a[…]
[…] was wartime , and there were no Irish actors in London. I did so much work with Irish accents on […]
[…]F: Thank you. So, now if we can go back to your early days at the Kodak research centre and you were involved with troubleshooting at various labs in London. Have you got any stories about experiences you had there, particularly with reference to the Eastmancolor process?AM: Well, I’m not going to m[…]
[…]tshire on March the 31st 1995. Reel one,I mightask you when you were born, Christopher Miles 0:28 right, I was born 19, April 39, in London town and the sound of bow bells. So not quite a Cockney, but can you tell me a bit about your family and how you came to be in the film industr[…]
[…] so it was quite soon afterLK: Yes, and they needed somebody who spoke English and PolishRF: So you, as it were, slipped into the Polish community in London?LK: I cannot say that because I have never in all these years ... I've got very, very few Polish friends so have adopted England and most […]
[…]ng by Greenline [bus]. Well it was alright coming up in the morning, but in the evening, I was fairly down the line, the Greenline started in central London, Oxford Circus or something, and particularly on a Friday night or if I left early, and it [the frequency] was every half hour, the buses just […]
[…] you, as it were, slipped into the Polish community in London? LK: I cannot say that because I have never […]
[…]s there for several months. It was a case of well, perhaps war isn't so bad. But then my father, who was an insurance official working in the City of London, went to work one day and there was no office there just a pile of rubble. So that he had to find somewhere at least temporarily to to live nea[…]
[…]s there for several months. It was a case of well, perhaps war isn't so bad. But then my father, who was an insurance official working in the City of London, went to work one day and there was no office there just a pile of rubble. So that he had to find somewhere at least temporarily to to live nea[…]
[…]ssionally? Derek Williams 1:00It began, as with many filmmakers, almost automatically. But But whereas with many here, we were born in the London area and live close to studios and so on. I come from Northumberland and I had a lifelong boyhood interest in Hadrian's Wall. And when I was an[…]
