Muriel Box (director, producer, screenwriter) 22/9/1905 - 18/5/1991 by admin — last modified Jul 28, 2008 04:21 PM BIOGRAPHY: One […]
[…]ry, I think had sort of rural connections. So there was there were these important reporters. But then there were the directors, or bbc co directors, producers, because I think BBC started as a radio organisation, and they sort of never quite got their heads around the film sort of description of jo[…]
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[…] a lot about the business, a lot of how to do things, and also a lot of things, how not to do. I mean, it was a funny mixture. But he was a brilliant producer, and an Associate Director radio. But a translator was the first one I made every transplants case, which was wells appeared in the omad, whi[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]o was the head of Columbia Pictures, which at that time was quite a small outfit. And he was quite a formidable character, I think of all these tough producers Harry was probably the toughest. And he said to me, "So you wanna write?" I said, "Yes." And he said, "Well what makes you think you can wri[…]
[…]tayed at Walton-on-Thames because Micky Powell...Sidney Cole : Yes he was starting around then wasn't he?Muriel Box : Yes and Jerry Jackson who was a producer.Sidney Cole : And some of Michael Powell's early, very modest budget pictures starred somebody called Jerry Verno , do you remember that acto[…]
[…]London and knew a lot of people in the entertainmentp.2industry knew a man called Mansfield Markham which is a name to conjure with and he was a film producer in those days. His wife was Beryl Markham who was like Amy Johnson one of the pioneers in flying and I think she flew from here to south Afri[…]
[…] Grade. Well, no, the other stuff was Hannah Weinstein, but all the stuff at National was for Lew Grade, ITV.DB: ITC.PM: ITC, and Ralph Smart was the Producer, and we had various directors who came through. I mean some who went on to be quite well known and others who disappeared. But it was [a] fiv[…]
[…]er if the station is still there? I presume it is. But it was a very efficient organisation. Very good. It was MGM. Victor Saville was the Producer and I got a number of days dubbing as well, because apart from being a butcher boy, I also had a public school accent. So I think […]