[…]lo, Johnny, I’m setting up a company called Trident Films', he said, 'and I just wondered if you’d be interested in being Executive in Charge of Production'.
I practically had an erection, it was so totally unbelievable. 'It sounds very interesting,' I said, trying n[…]
[…] Highgate 20:00 place, and he encouraged me to go into television, and so I applied for a job in television. And I got a job as, what was then, production secretary, it was called and my first job, this was working on ‘This Is Your Life’ with T. Leslie Jackson; who died about six months ago, I[…]
[…]ures in England in that period, features and all kinds of things. Oh yes, he was a busy man.Roy Fowler: There was a fairly healthy English or British production organisation at that time, was there not?Eddie Dryhurst: Well it was struggling to be born in a sense I think. There were a lot of fly-by-n[…]
[…]your entry. It’s... You said Tom White. He was an independent producer at Pinewood wasn’t he?
No, he... Yes, he was I suppose, yes. He was head of production wasn’t he?
Um... Well, production management I would say.
Yes. Yes, yes.
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[…]int of fact I'd gone up to get a job because Francis Howard whom I'd met at the Federation had taken a job as a company secretary with it with a film production company and grazing Road which was called industrial colour films to 16 mill house employing about six people. So he said look I think ther[…]
[…]ody rushed about and switched it round from front to back and re-lit it and off it went on the air you see.During the actual transmission you, as the production secretary or whatever...?Mm.You were sitting in the gallery?I was in the gallery, yes.All the time?And...And in front of you was the script[…]
[…]ged miraculously. And the order in the in the cutting room was absolutely different. I suppose this appealed I don't know. And the Ealing was in full production must have beenOh, yes, it was.Yes, yes, it does. I do I have a sort of figure of 139 I can't watch it. I wouldn't think there's any any str[…]
[…]oup, which was really, I went there for training when I was younger and then I joined a group, and we did Midsummer Night’s Dream. It was a good production, wasn’t it John?JPH: Yes.DS: And I played Puck in that, as an adult.Well, Puck I can understand, but The Tempest would be a bit o[…]
[…]'s our broadcast, television, radio. My mother acted with the W Gate Theatre. She had acted with William poor who was either a pioneer in Shakespeare production in EnglandJohn Taylor 4:21 locks his name,Paddy Carey 4:22 William poor po e L. And my father actually was also an […]
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