E M (Michael) Smedley Aston

[…]medley-Aston: ...Boxall...Roy Fowler: ...and yourself, yes.E.M. Smedley-Aston: Harold Boxall was quite powerful. Roy Fowler: Oscar Deutsch.E.M. Smedley-Aston: Pardon?Roy Fowler: Oscar Deutsch.E.M. Smedley-Aston: Yes, oh well yes, I know. Yes, that's quite true[…]

Jonathan Balcon

[…]rt of Birmingham mafia, a Jewish Birmingham mafiaRoy Fowler  29:30  And the Deutsche family too, I supposeJonathan Balcon  29:32  Oscar Deutsche again and I suppose they were all I think slightly older than Mick and Mick was a sort of up and coming, bright young man and they thou[…]

David Robson

[…]t theatres. The only, sort of, thing I didn't like about Odeons was the equipment, it was all BT-H [British Thompson-Hudson]. The story was that when Oscar Deutsch decided to build cinemas, he said to whoever, "If you can make some equipment I'll always use that in my cinemas." And it so happened th[…]

Bill Ward

This 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 […]
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