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

[…]                  Born Nov 1944 in Slough – mother there because of War, father in Army. Parents had lived in East End, tailor & seamstress, father ran factory, mother ran shop. Both parents were frustrated inte[…]

[…]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 […]

[…]in the first instance by him and then er - was moved out, partly by his efforts, partly by the efforts of, of, of, were stimulated - public relations officers who saw the chance for their own area to be enhanced by film. And so you had two tendencies, really, two trends, two directions of developmen[…]

[…]ess it was first class and I was in a carriage – and I always swore I’d write a play for tv and put this scene in, and sitting opposite me were three officers –McG: [interrupting] Hang on a moment there Harry because we are going to change disks. Do you need a break?HF: They’ll edit this out?McG: Oh[…]

[…] 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[…]

[…]ime, looking back on it, and the… the camaraderie of being in the RAF… and I didn’t want to go in at first, and I didn’t… I was regarded as potential officer material, but I didn’t apply for a commission because I didn’t want to be an officer.  I objected on principle so much to being called up[…]

[…]ey said, We are shortly. This, I suppose, should not be said, but it will be said, Well, look, we are shortly, advertising a post as Senior Technical Officer in Charge of technical services. And we. Was marked by cards, it would be worth your while applying for it, and I was interviewed on one thing[…]

[…]rd, a lieutenant and I used to be on an ack ack sight at Whitley Bay in my spare time and I was a street fire watcher and I was a voluntary billeting officer when people were being bombed and we used to be on shift during the war either from 9 till 5 days or 5 till 9 nights, alternate weeks. We didn[…]