[…] over it; we will pay you nine pounds a week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!2!Roy!Oxley!(1899G?)!was!a!British!production!designer!at!the!BBC,!he!won!a!BAFTA!for!his!work!on!The$Portrait$of$a$Lady!in!1969.!3!Peter!Bax!was!a!production!designer!at!the!BBC,!he!worked!on!productions!including!Hamlet!(1947)!and!Macbeth!(1949).!4!Patricia!Foy!(1922G2006)!was!a!British! producer!and!dance!for!programmes!including!The$Magic$of$Dance!(1979)!and!The$Margot$Fonteyn$Story!(1989).!! I: And were you still living at home at […]
[…] of a big documentary film, you got to know the producer and director pretty well and that was enjoyable. That […]
[…] and he said, Oh, he said, I'm doing a series TV series at shepherd them and the star medicine is they need another editor. So, I got in touch with a producer who was Harry fine. And met arranged an interview and I managed to get a job working on a series called man of the world, I think it was with[…]
[…]y, junior Reader. So, I read all the books that came in, and maybe five in my whole time that were absolute rubbish and couldn’t be submitted to producers. WhereasKay and her Assistant read the stuff and did their synopsis and I did my synopsis and I was good at that because I had always been i[…]
[…] youknow how it is. Yes.SRThere weren’t really reporters as I rememberJBWe did that we did all the interviewing and...Shall I tell you how I became a producer?SRWell yes do.JBBecause it was a very… it happened reasonably quickly and I was so lucky; I don't thinkthere were apparently at that time man[…]
[…]hem, my first taste of the film business.What, what, what actually were you doing?I was their secretary.I see.[05:00]So I went there and I became the producer’s and director’s secretary, very important. Iknew absolutely nothing at all about films but I, I loved films of course. And then from there, […]
[…]me. Anyway, after about six months I actually had a letter from the BBC asking if I would like to join a course, which of course I would, which was a producers course in those days, but they used to have a couple of designers tagging along, it really was for producers and directors. They used to run[…]
[…]long story short, that's how I got my first break. I got the picture. was a picture called black males, which was directed by Mark Ella grey. And the producer was Howard Hughes an old time actor from the bush front Yes, exactly. One of one of the things I wanted to say earlier that I remember so muc[…]
[…]ce 42. And I said, I have had no experience and I I want to operate. So there was a stand up thing where the studio manager came on the floor and the producer came on the floor and they said you're paid to do a job. I said, Yeah, I'm paid to do a job. But I still have a mind. And I have a voice. And[…]
[…]anscription 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. Side one. Hugh, when and where were you born?Hugh Stewart: I wa[…]
