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[…] Suit (1951). During the 1960s and ‘70s he worked at Pinewood, on a wide variety of films, including The Yellow […]

[…] on 3 weeks em barkation leave and I report to Pinewood and explain, they say you must do as you're […]

[…]nd they wanted extra scenic artists to work the weekend to paint stuff. So, two scenic artists from Lime Grove- 5 minutes PM: -were sent to Pinewood. And they said “You go with them.” So I remember getting the train to Uxbridge and someone waiting for me and took me to Pinewood on a Saturd[…]

[…]d offices - there was South Street, there was Imperial House, Regent Street. And I went there, and I was only there a few weeks when a job came up at Pinewood, in the Publicity Department, for a publicity director of Wessex Films, which was Ian Dalrymple's company, and she was a lady publicity direc[…]

[…]s taking too long to light up a shot I say you can't win an Academy Award with just one good shot Gordon. Anyway this is how we went on till suddenly Pinewood opened.Alan Lawson: You were a clapper boy? Or you'd moved on?Freddie Francis: No, I had moved on to focus puller by now. Yes I moved on duri[…]

[…]am.Sidney Cole: Ah-huh.Carmen Dillon: And then I worked in Denham for about fifteen or sixteen years, and then that folded up and we all went over to Pinewood. And then I stayed there the rest of the time. Except going once or twice - once to Wembley I think, [corrects herself] to Ealing I think, an[…]

[…] of which he’d read while ill. Generally under Rank at Pinewood, he made a series of commercially successful films, most […]

[…]erybody at Rank with any part would be given the star’s dressing room – and there were some occasions I’d rather have lived in there than at home. At Pinewood, the star’s dressing room was as good as having a flat in Mayfair. The bathroom was bigger than where I lived In Lambeth. Absolutely beautifu[…]

[…]rl in that. It was a very sweet film. Not earth-shattering, but really nice to do. And then I did a film with Dirk Bogarde called Simba (1955)[26] at Pinewood[27] which was about the Mau Mau period in Kenya.[28] I played the daughter of a couple who were murdered by the Mau Mau and it was all quite […]