[…]I was still in the system. I was working on a film by the direction. Steven Hearst, about President Tito of Yugoslavia. And Hearst had a an assistant producer who was virtually a trainee he come from commercial films, a young man named Peter Watkins. And the editor Brian keen, was probably very keen[…]
[…]ree levels too low to be a good actor, but I was over Tony Garnett and Tom Courtenay, when I was at University College London, but I was quite a good producer-director. And I wanted to take that path, and in fact spent my first post-graduate job was with a touring theatre in Norway. A state touring […]
[…]ough I was going to stay on Radio Luxembourg. There was no objection. I did my first programme … and I got a good programme too … I had a producer called Derek Chinnery who devised this whole idea of my having guests on the programme and interviewing them. It was his idea and it wa[…]
[…]ammes doing telecine. I thought, "I want to do it!" I could almost touch the machines! I couldn't get there! Didn't know anybody. I knew one man, one producer who used to write to me every year and say, "Sorry, we still haven't got a vacancy." And it went on for year after year.Alan Lawson: Who was […]
[…]ish between Mike Norton and McAllister MattJoe Mendoza 11:47 McAllister many, many, many years that I worked for McAllister when he was a producer to British British Rail, transport, British transport process, I guess. Anyway, then I made a film with Charles I worked as an assistant dire[…]
[…]p;was chief production manager, and he controlled the making of the films being made by Independent Producers, Independent Producers was an arm of the Rank Organisation and I worked for Ind[…]
[…]chance. "Hello, you got the job." Yay! Mum, Bobby, we're not going. "Can you come to St. Christopher's place tonight for a Japanese meal and meet the producers and the director". And that was the beginning of The Mini Mob. I'll stop there. Okay, so you want to ask me something else? Madeline Sm[…]
[…]earse, so I thought the best thing is not to guess anybody, so I didn’t. There’s a little ‘do’ afterwards – they are called Goodson & Todman, the producers, and Arlene Francis and Soupy Sales, and all these crazy people, we went for a little supper at a Chinese restaurant, and I said to the prod[…]
[…]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[…]
