[…]TMAN: Yes, we did. I was in the North London Players which was at the Intimate Theatre in Palmers Green, which it was known, and we did a production of All My Sons, in which I played the son, which got a really good article in the Evening News at that time. That was very successful[…]
[…]like, and I met them all in the course of that 17 years, carpenters, painters, scenery, all of them.RF: How about the executives and the senior production staff Balcon and such people as Sid for example.UB: Very, very nice, I got on very well with them. I used to come into contact them, they u[…]
[…]f excursion into theatre at about this time I think because in your biographical notes to that Academy later on, you credit yourself with directing a production of "Macbeth".EC: Oh yesSC: Tell me about that.EC: Now that there were no films to do, in between jobs, the next job was with Basil Dean. I […]
[…]ething about OB’s that for a lot of us who had flown in the war because I think without sounding big-headed about it, I think that outside broadcasts production work demanded the same kind of quick thinking that flying aeroplane does, I think it’s something to do with reactions that you must have a […]
[…]nt, I wish I could think of his name but I can't, and his secretary and I think that was about all. And then on the next floor up, of course, was the production office with our production manager and the newsroom. The news editor was Ted Adams and our production manager was Jack Ramsden who prior to[…]
[…] 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 […]
[…] floor up, of course, was the production office with our production manager and the newsroom. The news editor was Ted Adams […]
[…]umbs on the table, human signs of actually just being a person like you, was the bit that the film department gave you that the bigger team of studio production have an imposed control on situations, didn't allow people to be absolutely one hundred percent human. So when I sat and had dinner with, y[…]
[…]Michael Peacock, John Cleese, Roy Godfrey. We made it look like enormous pool of talent – actually these were all the films I could find. Independent production sector didn’t really exist, kept at arms length by BBC & IBA. But it made an impact on Leon, who persuaded Whitelaw to move off ITV2. W[…]
