Dicky Leeman

[…]out ten days before the war started. And I managed to get the last eighteen months of my career in the RAF, I got transferred to the RAF Film Unit at Pinewood Studios. And one day I was sent for by our commanding officer, which was Teddy Baird, and Pat Moyner[?], and they said, "The Rank Organisatio[…]

Vernon Sewell

[…];But that's what happened to me, you see? The money was not put behind me at any time.Roy Fowler: But did you have any desire to go and work for Pinewood, for Rank, or ?Vernon Sewell: No, I wouldn't!Roy Fowler: Because what? Again, company politics, presumably?Vernon Sewell: Yes,[…]

John Krish

[…]me, "Well Richard Attenborough is going to produce it." So he and I - he and I knew each other because when I was in the Army Film Unit he was around Pinewood making a film for the RAF Film Unit - he was in the RAF as a...Rodney Giesler: Journey TogetherJohn Krish: Yes exactly. So - in fact we had b[…]

Eileen Diss

[…]ing is that his name escapes me, it was John, and I cannot at this moment remember it. But he was the man who virtually invented independent frame at Pinewood; do you know who I mean? I wrote to him too and on the strength of the past acquaintanceship with my father, he said well come and see me, br[…]

Peter Stroud

[…]eldsInterviewee: Peter Stroud  Tape 1, Side 1Jim Shields: This is an interview with Peter Stroud, Charge-hand projectionist, Theatre Seven, Pinewood Studios. The date is... the something of June?Peter Stroud: 29th!Jim Shields: 29th June 1993. Well Peter, where were you born?Peter Stroud: A[…]
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