Michael (Mickey) Hickey

[…] Allen: I see.Mickey Hickey: ...with John Aldred and I took John Aldred's place. And the other member of the sound crew was - oh he ended up with the National Film Board in Ottawa - George Crowle[?]. And he went out there and he contacted me when I was at MGM, said, "We've got a job for you out here[…]

John Ammonds

[…]u know, and I was next to him as this gentle Oliver, next door in my velvet suit and this close up picture was was printed the following morning in a national paper. We were doing some Dickens' birthday celebrations in a galleried inn we used to do it every year, I think it's still there in the boro[…]

Robert M (Bob) Angell

[…]orking toRobert Angel  9:16  I was working with an editor called bill Freeman, who was younger than I was that escaped the war but had done national service. And he was a very that and he was a very, very calm, experienced editor. You couldn't want a better teacher. For me. I've lost touch[…]

Maurice Askew

[…] us out some time in the fifties.Jim Shields: Oh yes I remember that because he set up a company I worked for - I did a Brian Rix picture at the Gate National as they they set up. He set up a very big organisation, which was going to be a nucleus of directors or producers, the best in the country. A[…]

Keith Ewart

[…]wler  38:09  I agree with that. Yes, they couldn't behave. It's misspent and it's, ah,Keith Ewart  38:14  well, it's misspent the National Health Service. That's the trouble everywhere. The trouble is, where do you slash? But, I mean, I quite agree, but it's not in misread. There[…]

Geoff Hermges

[…] through labs or through somewhere. Well, I decided not on labs, so I went and gained, well technical knowledge. I went as a senior technician to the national coward research unit under Dr Bronowski, where I then, again utilized all my cinematic skills, again as a caring man, mostly working on very […]

Oswald (Ossie) Morris

[…] four hours of training at night during the week and used for hours about the time. Weekends on point duty or patrol work or something as part of the national effort in 1938. Between 38 and 39 was a very bad time for me because there simply wasn't any film being made you might get the day's work. Ag[…]

Harry Fowler

[…]y’ll call you on the set and these are the lines you’re going to say. They gave me lines daily, from the script, there was a script, it was already a screenplay as it were and George Cole – it was his second film, he’d done Cottage to Let George Cole was in it and because I’d seen Cottage to Let, I […]

Peter Montagnon

[…]ry near to me, he'd done it as Russian too, and I think so had John Drummond, when I can't think of it, hmm. And they said, they'd gone in as a as on national service and being caught up, commissioned, done six months or so and then come out. So, um, I then was sent to Bush, they said, Would you, wo[…]
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