[…]r an occasion when - I think you're right John, because I seem to remember an occasion when we had, as the guest speaker, Harold Wilson, who was then President of the Board of Trade, and I think Beaver Hall was during and post-war.[indecipherable - all talking at once] JS: I'm pretty sure about that[…]
[…]son was on camera.Robert Beatty: Forgotten that.Roy Fowler: We come now, you were in Superman III.Robert Beatty: I was in Superman IV too, I played a president. I never saw it. Just the opening sequence.Roy Fowler: It was terrible, it was when Cannon took it over, it had that feeling of Cannon cheap[…]
[…]lson do you mean?Ella Mallett : No - Gaumont British.Roy Fowler : No sorry, you said Samuelson, did you say Samuelson?Ella Mallett : Mr Samuelson was President.Roy Fowler : Yes, was that G.B. Samuelson?Ella Mallett : I couldn't say.Roy Fowler : I wondered if that were the father of Sidney and David.[…]
[…]!Roy Fowler: Well moving on then from that, what then? What do you remember then?Eddie Dryhurst: Well I'd always wanted to work for Carl Laemmle, the president of Universal Pictures. Whenever his name came up on the screen at St Albans when I was working in the cinema playing the piano, or whatever […]
[…]ehind him and then he could have made everybody... strike, and he didn’thave that ballot. That was because not long before that, soon after he became president or whatever he is, the Coal Board had made an offer which was a good offer in the way of wages, but at the same time there was still this na[…]
[…]t I remember at that particular time, through that period, would be George Elvin of course, Ken Gordon, Ralph Bond - no not Ralph Bond, um - the vice president, um...Arthur Graham: Asquith?Tubby Englander: ...no, lives in Ealing.Arthur Graham: Sidney Cole?Tubby Englander: Sidney Cole. Sidney Cole an[…]
[…] supper, back at 8 till we finished. Somlo was the producer of this picture and they always tried to evade this. Thorold who was then one of the vice presidents, he was the director and he was in a very difficult position, poor chap, and I'd say are we working late, I think we are, are we, I haven't[…]
[…]n was he in your memory?A Oh a lovely man. I mean he was a trade unionist but you see George did all theprompting for him. You could tell when he was President, he didn’t know his arse from his elbowquite frankly. Lovely man though. Super man. And George got him to do things that he would never have[…]
[…]ham was saying how wrong it was for the script ever to get to the Russian embassy, it wasn’t that one was it? Asquith was directing it and he was the president of ACT and he was very hurt about it all. I’m sorry I shouldn’t have brought this up. This was at Denham with De Grunwald.Reggie Beck: […]
[…]Hmm.Jim Connock : And I think it was a marvellous training ground, The Bush.Kitty Wood : It was.Jim Connock : I remember Johnny Goodman, he's sort of president of BAFTA or chairman of Bafta...Kitty Wood : He started at G-B I as a clapper-boy.Jim Connock : He started - he was a page-boy.Kitty Wood : […]
