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[…] 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[…]

[…]Ben HurCB: Did he? What was he doing over here then?I: He came over. He was I guess under contract at Gaumont BritishCB: No I don’t remember him. Was nationality was he?14 Victor Saville (1895-1979) was an English director, producer and screenwriter. His films included Dark Journey (1937) and The Si[…]

[…]r nearly 10 years getting married and getting divorced there. It was, I quite like being in Cheltenham , because there was Cheltenham races the great national hunt centre. And I since I'd been a jockey,  Stanley Forman  8:27  Was there a rich  dramatic life in[…]

[…] a very long time, that movie." But it did me a lot of good you see, it was the first major picture I made, you see.Roy Fowler: That was British National, was it not? The production, did they finance it, British National?Vernon Sewell: No, it was an Alexander Korda film.Roy Fowler: Oh[…]

BECTU History Project - Interview No. 293 [Copyright BECTU]  Transcription Date: 2002-11-15Interview Date: 1993-06-29 (1993-07-05?) Interviewers: Jim ShieldsInterviewee: Peter Stroud  Tape 1, Side 1Jim Shields: This is an interview with Peter Stroud, Charge-hand project[…]

[…]hroughout the whole of that time, apart from being evacuated during the war, I lived with my parents in Osterley facing Osterley Park, which is now a National Trust property. And I went to school, little locals, private schools, and then subsequently followed that going to Collet Court and St Pauls […]

[…]t came later in my teens when I went into, I went on stage to start with and then I did odd things in films for Warner Brothers and BIP [British International Pictures] and I worked a lot with Lupino Lane.RF: Just to wrap up on school did you have any encouragement on writing there. VG: Not spe[…]

[…]o an art school in Fleet Street called Broad Court which was next to Doctor Johnson’s house.  And I think I was very good there.  I won the National Award for Illustration at one point so I had a natural kind of bent towards cartooning really and that’s really where it developed.DARROL BLA[…]