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

[…]sp;hated the Germans but she fell in love with a young widow with a German officer who was a wonderful pianist and she was a pianist. And so this is a[…]

[…]ole: Jack, you spent your life in cinema distribution - how did you get into that originally?Jack Rockett: I saw an advert in the Daily Telegraph for office boy wanted.Sidney Cole: How old were you then?Jack Rockett: Fifteen.Sidney Cole: What had you done - what sort of schooling had you had up to t[…]

[…]r 2  7:31  Well, the first film I went on after the outbreak of the war, I think, was I know I had registered to under something called the officers emergency reserve. And I did get called up by the wall office and was interviewed by a general I remember with a big red band round his hat, […]

[…] Cy Young I was born in Bristol on the 5th of December 1941. slightly avoiding Pearl Harbour Where did you […]

[…] to do it, 'cause you know we used the real officers or the real [???], we didn't use actors. John […]

[…] transcript has been produced automatically using Otter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-transcription/.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for any misinterpretation of the […]

[…]tish Entertainment History Project.This transcript has been edited to remove hesitation and repetition where it was felt that the speech recognition software had been too thorough!Interviewee: Anne Fleming (AF)Interviewer: Murray Weston (MW):Murray Weston:  It's Friday the 21st of April 2017 an[…]

Bob Geoghan is interviewerCY My name is so Cy Young I was born in Bristol on the 5th of December 1941. slightly avoiding Pearl Harbour Where did you live. Oh blimey I don't know.Cy Yes. Yeah. Well I went to school in Bristol at the grammar school I went to was called Queen Elizabeth was a grammar sc[…]

[…]g a BP film called they found a valley written by Jack Howells. I met them in Aden. And Rowley. Stafford was his camera man later, to become BP films officer. I met them all in Aden when I was working alone as a young, a youthful camera man in my early 20s. And that was really the first link I had w[…]