[…]also the Chairman of the British Standards, the Senate(?) Committee of films for British Standards. Peter Griffiths was their British Standards Officer and later others because he retired and so on. Right up to the end it was a part I really found very interesting.Q &nbs[…]
[…]on The Way Ahead, they had four or five actors that were always on call, always on stage – not always on stage: Stanley Holloway, David Niven was the officer, and off-stage there was always a huge poker game going, the whole time, and the interesting thing about that – I thought it was a very good f[…]
[…] it on the lines that er, w hat the service officers would get, captains rank and above, and, but no, […]
[…] Well, I was born in 1905, in Slough, where my father was a doctor in practice. Er...He, my father became shortly after that the first school medical officer that Sheffield had. Then we moved and lived there until 1914, when we came and lived in London 'cause my father went to the Ministry of Educat[…]
[…]o messing you know! [Laughs] And another time, I'll come back to this natural lighting, but this springs to my mind. We had all these brave parachute officers, which they were, make no mistake of it, these had all been in the battle, every one of them. And I was standing talking to a major, a captai[…]
[…]ng up a film unit, you see, under Donald Alexander, and so that’s how Igot into that, right near the beginning. Donald Alexander actually was a films officer at the Coal Board and he started the film unit for the Coal Board to make technical films foruse within the industry towards the end of 1952 a[…]
[…] arrivals and I got hold of quite a pretty customs officer, a girl, and I said, "Listen, you're never going […]
[…] springs to my mind. We had all these brave parachute officers, which they were, make no mistake of it, these […]
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