[…]icant career in film and television, earning BAFTA awards for his performances in Julius Caesar (1953) and Murder on the Orient Express (1974) and an Oscar for Arthur (1981). Dame Flora McKenzie Robson (1902-1984) was an English actress best known for character roles such as Queen Elizabeth I […]
[…]ny Mann is dead and gone, and he didn't like the score Rozsa did for 'El Cid', because he said he'd heard it before. Rozsa did, and I think he got an Oscar for 'Ben-Hur' didn't he? He'd done 'Ben-Hur' which was a tremendous, outstanding success. I didn't think it would be as a remake, but it was so […]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 108[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2003-03-18Interview Date: 1989-11-23Interviewers: John LegardInterviewee: Hugh StewartTape 1, Side 1John Legard: Hugh Stewart, film producer, recorded on the 23rd of November 1989, in his home. Interviewer John Legard. Sid[…]
[…], you know, always called him Uncle Arthur, it’s really strange.
Mm.
But... So he was very proud of me in the end, you know, because I’d got my Oscar and this and that, and, you know, he was...
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Yes. Did you actually ask him, or, or was it by implication that you wanted a job in[…]
[…]tcome of the killing fields. How did it feel to win an Academy Award.SPEAKER: M13Oh it was terrifying.SPEAKER: M26I'll tell you the experience of the Oscar was something it was great to get nominated for the film and I was thrilled to get nominated and I flew over to Los Angeles.SPEAKER: M8Now there[…]
[…]rst time that any British film had beennominated for an award by the Academy, and I got the award for art direction that year. Ididn't get the actual Oscar, I got the nomination, not the award. I think it was the very firstnomination from this country, I may be under an illusion there, but of course[…]
[…]ust great buddies. But John Mills was the sweetest, most articulateactor I think I ‘ve ever encountered apart from Dickie himself. MW: He won an Oscar for his acting didn’t he? I wonder whether Dickie Attenborough did.CJ: Well, he got one as a director. MW: He did.MW: He did[…]
