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[…]hat do you know of his early his youth and where he grew up, right?Unknown Speaker 0:56 He went to St. Peter's school, a public school in New York. He was born in New York, he was no he was born. And Caspian mother g Don, and sorry. God, woman, God woman, he was born God, oh my God, sorr[…]
[…]and nationality?Speaker 2 0:34 My name is Matt. Matthew Ervin in full. I was born in July 1948. In London on my ancestry, it goes back to New Zealand.Speaker 1 0:47 And what sort of family were you born into?Speaker 2 0:52 My family I was the only child of an only[…]
[…] art director and Carmen came in - it was her first job in the industry - as Ralph's assistant. And of course, she was wonderful, because I mean she knew it all, she was a trained architect, and first of all she got ticked off Ernie Gartside for wearing trousers on the set, and she said, "Well how a[…]
[…], and he was telling everyone [American accent] “how wonderful the British are.” And he left the pub and he was interviewed again by somebody on this newspaper and he said “yes” and as they left, he put his hand into his inside coat pocket and his wallet had gone. [laughs] So I mean that’s what went[…]
[…] did a lot of buying houses in ham, and I went up to London that did several places, and he plays with machine.Unknown Speaker 5:27 So I knew basics. Yes, I see, yes, sorry. Anyway, you know that's right, so you went on to the floor. That was the first time we were on the floor on those […]
[…]nbsp;that was 1928 when talkies started and uh he he wanted to go into the newsreel business which was just being formed and uh I think British movie tone […]
[…]a movie and you spent the next year I know cancelling it and cutting it and everything but you know that the I was always sort of I was always trying new clothes in the house 16 I was the youngest person there. But I didn't want to make a film like all the other people I will commentary I want to ma[…]
[…]s very different now but it was awfully nice then.LW: Did you come from a show business background?WT: No, there was nobody in it at all as far as I knew that was anything to do with show business at all.LW: What first attracted you to that?WT: It was really my mother so wanted to do it herself, she[…]
BEHP 0:00 We're in the theatre five at Pinewood at the date is the 25th, Tuesday the 25th of October 1988. And we're going to go through the basic questionairre first, and then hopefully, if we don't get out all the bits and pieces we want from the, we'll go over to the more specialised […]
