Search Results for: Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to drama (1974)

[…]ur life and your very interesting family and connections and all those things. So,  starting, I guess at the beginning, you're the daughter of Michael Balcon, who is one of the founding fathers of the British film industry. And I'd like I suppose to start with him, your memories of him goi[…]

[…]ep out but during the daytime they said, "What did I like doing?" I said, "Oh I love gardening." They said, "All right, you can go and look after the officer's gardens." Only one particular garden, you know, so I was doing all right. So then er...Bob Allen: What were you supposed to be doing as far […]

[…]ast eighteen months of my career in the RAF, I got transferred to the RAF Film Unit at Pinewood Studios. And one day I was sent for by our commanding officer, which was Teddy Baird, and Pat Moyner[?], and they said, "The Rank Organisation are looking desperately for an assistant director and there i[…]

[…]r. My mother was Russian and she was married to somebody in the Sudan, but she was always travelling all over the continent. I think she had a series of lovers, and I went to a series of schools, where I was left during the holidays as a rule. So I had no kind of upbringing at all, in fact I only re[…]

[…] Naval film?" That's how it was made.Roy Fowler: Yes, I'm sorry, I missed that, yeah.Vernon Sewell: All I got out of that film was my Naval Officer's pay. It made a fortune too, it made a bomb. Frankie, Mickey's wife said, "Do you know Vernon, Mickey and I were living off that for a very l[…]

[…]shop steward. I don't think in war time, people were having a much more dangerous job than doing that. There’s a story about that, we had a RE Sapper officer who was the technical officer in charge and he'd gone through all these thing both abroad and here and during the making of this film on the r[…]

[…]O.I'm sorry, Sunday. Yes, yeah, that was my next step. So I buy this all this time, I'd be wondering, well, what do I want to do in the film business officer, I don't want to get projections to my wife. And at first I thought he wants to I wanted to be a camera man, because it seemed glamorous, and […]

[…]wn ‘film director’ because I directed the film about (indistinct). No I didn’t….I didn’t get into documentaries yet. I was then picked as a potential officer, and er…I suppose I spoke (laughing) better.  There were many Geordies actually, lovely Geordies, all in this and that, (attempts Geordie[…]