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

[…] Rank Film Labs . Born in 1921 in Doncaster, son of a dental surgeon, educated at private school, wasn’t that […]

[…]ngineer looking at me, and he said, I think I'm going to be seasick. And I had some of my salonian sea sick tablets, so I gave him one. But the naval officer would see me around. He said, Have you climbed a scrambling ladder before? So I said, No. Well, he and I always carried a bag with stop watche[…]

[…]uter. And I worked at the COA offices. We all had to sign the Official Secrets Act. So you couldn't really discuss what are you doing in my house and officer to future was we were white film me for about three or four weeks on a ringtone on several different stories. One was the nose project at Nott[…]

[…] to do was to work in films. I hadn’t decided I wanted to direct films, I justknew I wanted to be involved in some way. Unfortunately, the employment officer was really not enthusiastic at all. He more or less laughed at me really and kept insisting there was a good job for me in this engineering fa[…]

[…]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[…]

[…]cate from school, not the bottom of the class! [Laughs.] Anyway, it's very interesting to know that in the top class in them days was - an industrial officer came round once a week for several weeks before the lads left school, you see. And he'd give you some tests. So one of the tests he gave you w[…]

[…]nk it was for Shell, it was the er - there was an aircraft carrier, The Albion, and we spent about three months on that. And of course we were in the officer's mess, and every evening we had to dress into our - evening dress, you know black tie and...Charles Drazin: Oh that sounds marvellous!Manny Y[…]

[…] about in London?WT: Upper Clapton. North London, it was very pretty in those days, it had a village pond which I fell into a lot, and all those sort of things, it'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[…]