Brian Shemmings

[…]me time I saw Stan called Phillips. So if was the Met was the sort of managing director so he'd come up through the ranks. She'd been quite worked quite&nb[…]

Aida Young (nee Cohen)

[…]s no way of getting in anywhere, and finally, I was out of work for six months, and then I would get on a film.  By this time I was an assistant director.  I had tried everything, I had been a third, I had been a second. For a few minutes I had been a first, but the electrician, on the fil[…]

Jack Rockett

[…] the post war era. His assessment of John Davis ( Managing Director of Rank), and of the Quota system, make […]

Jonathan Balcon

[…]auld who was was the majority shareholder at Associated Talking Pictures, which was the holding company at Ealing, had said to Reg Baker, who was the managing director, 'Reg, you know, I've got to get rid of Dean and this crowd making, losing money hand over fist at Ealing. Can you find me somebody […]

L P (Bill) Williams

[…]ell I don't know, there was but I was there and I was with an American art director named Bob Haass who was a personal friend. He was a Universal art director. And I mean it was just everybody who was in the room decided what they were going to do and they joined. And it was just like that!Rodney Gi[…]

Peter de Normanville

[…] it right. The funny thing is a time of you move in this high site. I offered a fag to the bloke, I was sharing the instructor with American I assume managing director type. He was terribly impressed. He said you British. You always a one up on us. Here we are everyone saying you got to cut on your […]

Fred Tomlin

[…]s Bill Salter with the pipe.Fred Tomlin: That's Bill Salter and this is um, what's the director's name? Oh...Marcel Varnel, this is Marcel Varnel the director.Bob Allen: Ah hmm. And the cameraman?Fred Tomlin: That's Arthur Crabtree.Bob Allen: Oh gracious! It is, yes?Fred Tomlin: And of course these […]

Fred Tomlin

[…] the director's name? Oh...Marcel Varnel, this is Marcel Varnel the director. Bob Allen: Ah hmm. And the cameraman? Fred Tomlin: That's […]

sidney-cole-transcript-1987

[…] the war the front office, Reg Baker, who was joint managing director sent for me and said do you remember […]

Simon Rose

[…]ong schedule. And I was actually doing some research as well. So that director David de Gama was in Russia, just at the beginning of class, and I was managing to get film out of the Russians, when they were late to selling this, they didn't understand the concept of copyright. They just said, Well, […]
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