Ann Meo

[…]et them in a row.  And they none of them knew what was going to happen, and they were all standing there and then Vic Hallums, the sort of stage manager’s assistant, used to run on to a sort of ‘Oh yeah!’ on the organ, he used to run on with an armful of roll-ons, complete with suspenders, and […]

Peggy Hyde-Chambers (nee Rignold)

[…] I thought I’ll get in any way I can.Yes.And I was working on a film at Elstree and I did quite a bit there and Stapleton I think was the studio manager.Yes.And then I heard that there was a girl in the Make-up Department who was going to get married to Brian Langley.Oh yes.And I thought that’s[…]

Jan Zilliacus

Jan Zilliacus Tape 1 Side ACOPYRIGHT: No use may be made of any interview material without the permission of the BECTU History Project (http://www.historyproject.org.uk/). Copyright of interview material is vested in the BECTU History Project (formerly the ACTT History Project) and the right to publ[…]

Freddie Francis

[…]ear old Jack Clayton. Well Jack and I hadknown each other for a long time and I knew Jack when he was an assistant director, when he was a production manager, when he was associate producer and when he did this film he asked me to shoot it for him, which I did, and as you know it almost opened a new[…]

Jean Anderson

[…]le remember now, which was a top experimental theatre, it was called then in Cambridge, called the Festival Theatre. I was engaged as assistant stage manager and understudying the leads, going on in many crowd scenes and small parts, and quite a cast. Flora Robson  was the leading lady, Tony Gu[…]
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