Betty Willingale

[…]or Michael Barry who ran the department and I thought was one of the most, oh, best man of drama I’ve ever met, he was saddled really with a staff of producers, they were called then, we’d call them directors now, who were all on the staff [Laughter] and so he could never bring in new people, newer […]

Dicky Leeman

[…]I did have the wonderful thrill of working with him once much later on in television, when Bill Lyon-Shaw and I were working - Bill Lyon-Shaw was the producer, I was the floor manager at the BBC, and we used to a show called Life Begins at Sixty, and everybody in the cast was over sixty, and everybo[…]

Brian Pritchard

[…]l] apparatus that you needed for the other early types. And therefore it was at the leading edge of making colour films. However, the big problem for producers and filmmakers was the fact that you were very tightly controlled by Technicolor. You were forced to employ a Technicolor colour consultant […]

Wendy Toye

[…], has done some wonderful things,LW: Was that the Sunday Times film critic or was it another Sidney Carroll.WT: No, that was the Sidney Carroll stage producer – a different one. But George came over after about three years, with this story, with all the alterations I'd suggested. He also said he wan[…]

Francis Searle

[…]sort of oversee this, that and the others stayed in the nicest club, all this sort of business. And then it, when the picture comes out, who gets the producers credit? But Michael, that put the mockers on it for me, what I know that's leap straight in it.Roy Fowler  2:42  It was not unusua[…]

John Schlesinger

[…]piece of work which we made on 16mm, staging many scenes. And a friend of mine who was an editor who I've subsequently worked with, Dick Marden had a producer friend who saw it, James Laurie his name was. He said I've got a friend at the BBC called Cecil McGivern and I'll give you an introduction. S[…]

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[…] manager’s courses when I went were, were reckoned to be producer material, and that was what they were after. Mm, […]

Moira Armstrong

[…] of fitted that.Yes. And that was why I applied.Mm, mm. Mm. And most people on, on the studio manager’s courses when I went were, were reckoned to be producer material, and that was what they were after.Mm, my memory of The BBC at exactly that time was that it was very much a Civil Service, built in[…]
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