[…]. JPH: Five guineas or something wasn’t it? DS: A lot of employment to Equity members.JPH: And the Equity strike in ’61, which was over the national deal for the then network as it existed, they all went on strike. We had no actors in anything at all for seven months. It was a very lo[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]. My first school was a convent school, which was far too Catholic for my Catholic parents. And so they cut me out for that and put me in a non denominational school. And I was nondenominational until I went to, at the behest of the bishop, I think, kill Catholic college, which is one of the big Cat[…]
[…]earliest film memory was going to his studio which was Worton Hall at Isleworth which subs, subsequently became the Korder Studio and then became the National Coal Board something or other. I don’t know what it is now. And I can remember as a perhaps five or six years old and being taken to the stud[…]
[…]bunch of – you know, beyond the Ritz - I've never seen anything like it, right. So the eyes are being opened up: broadcasting; meeting every European nationality some of them couldn't speak English. Putting out news talks in Czecho-Slovak, in Polish, German, French no problem. Spanish. We weren’t do[…]
[…]quite clear that my job now since I've ceased to be an actor, is to preach sermons, to millions of people. That's that's what I do. I am even an international preacher of sermons. Radical sermons. redressing balances, trying desperately to persuade people to think other than the boring, lying, hypoc[…]
[…]e other Simon Gray plays Close of Play, Quartermaine's Turns, Otherwise Engaged, all of which Harold directed then I did quite a bit at The National. Well the first one I did there, I did a lot of things because Harold introduced me actually, my first national play was because of him becau[…]
[…]idn’t he?
I thought it was later than that. I don’t remember him around until...
[inaudible] that time.
Yes, maybe.
As I say, I think the National Provincial suddenly decided enough was enough.
Yes. Yah.
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I was curious whether your uncle, what his primary motivation was[…]
