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[…]p;married again around about 1946 and we went to live in Stockwell in southwest London and I went to Henry Thornton grammar school. In Clapham Common between 1947&nb[…]

[…] those days, because the money was flowing you see, with five films going and er, I don't know where the finance came from because that was all up in London. But um...I was just trying to think now...Margaret Thomson: Do you remember at all the amount of money that a feature film or a first-feature […]

[…] in the cast.Robert Beatty: A very small part whatever it was, because I might have joined the BBC at that time, I was working at night and living in London, eventually I got moved out to Evesham after the BBC got bombed, but that was towards the end of 1940, we got moved out somewhere round October[…]

[…]rhaps ask you more about that and your involvement there. When did you start with them and how did you come to join them? A Well, the, the, er - in - London Transport had been talking about developing a film unit and I discussed with er - with er - a chap called Hutchinson there, who was their publi[…]

[…] then the other thing was you also hard out occasionally, so sent off to Denham, which was quite quite a thing. In those days, I had to live in South London and I had to be at Denham and Harper state. Wartime was not that easy. So I was hired out to work on part again of the Canterbury Tales, which […]

[…]y somehow. Then in my recent years- I worked in Dublin before the war. When I came back to England, it was wartime, and there were no Irish actors in London. I did so much work with Irish accents on radio, and it wasn’t (oddly enough) ‘til sometime after that, that I got a lot of Scottish parts, whi[…]

[…]well I always wanted to get into the film business and just before I was due to leave school the British Kinemograph Society arranged a course at the London Polytechnic, Regent Street, you know, for kinematography. A two-year course it was, every day. Well I knew no-one in the film business and I'd […]

[…]2And background. Yes. By the way when in which I was actually born in Leicester but the family came from Derbyshire and my father was halfway down to London as around in his business career in textiles. I was born in Leicester when I was three or four. We moved to London some really before. I hardly[…]