[…]ed by Roy ... a very famous director subsequently, who wanted to be radical about everything. And subsequently me playing, ah - Roy Battersby was the director. And for him to cast me as a West Indian ment I had to black up and put cotton wool in my mouth to get my mouth... Why I ever got the role...[…]
Side 1Alan Lawson.The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU history project. Gerry Humphries, sound recordist, dubbing mixer, managing director of Twickenham Film Studios. Interviewer Alan Lawson. Recorded on the 21st August 1995. Side one.Now, first Gerry when a[…]
[…]m Court Road with Charlie Stringer and Sidney thought I was spending moneylike a madman so he took me off that. After that I had no title until I was Managing Director, soundscrazy but it's true. One of the things I did to start with I recruited the personnel.Taylor/Peet: To start, how did you move […]
[…]oy Fowler: Why was that, why did you leave Shepherd's Bush? Andy Worker: Um, I had left The Bush before, you see I'd gone to Denham and the then managing director of the new amalgamated company went sick and I was posted up to Hanover Square to stand in for him. And I went into David Henley's d[…]
[…] – in particular, working for Odeon Cinemas and becoming its managing director from 1985 to 1990. THE HISTORY PROJECT The […]
[…] – in particular, working for Odeon Cinemas and becoming its managing director from 1985 to 1990. THE HISTORY PROJECT The […]
[…] that. After that I had no title until I was Managing Director, sounds crazy but it's true. One of the […]
[…]e, to a place calledSpeaker 1 1:32 there was one lot of rushes I was showing that involved a boat, and I believed it belonged to the film director. And there was going across to a place called Deauville. And they filmed around Deauville and myself being a travel fanatic. I showed the rus[…]
[…] 273]Actually Grubber became Roy, mm, Ernie Roy’s second wife, his sister.Now you and I went to see Ernie Roy didn’t we once when he was, when he was managing, mm...No, not Ernie.No.No, sorry, sorry, I’ve got the wrong one, no.I went up and saw, I went up years later after I’d got Technicolor well o[…]
[…]on and John Cox was head of sound there, Roy Kellino, cameraman, the directors were Al Parker who afterwards became an agent and Alex Bryce, a Scotch director. I was still in my digs but we used to be able to have wonderful breakfasts there. We used to get in, the usual thing of start at 8.30, and w[…]
