[…]my Gilbert: not at all, apart from continuing to play the piano anywhere given half the chance, in any music bar as well in America.John Taylor: What rank were you then.Jimmy Gilbert: pilot officer and then it was automatic flight lieutenant. I was on first of all as a sort of observer, second pilot[…]
[…] Fowler: Just the accountant? Andy Worker: Just as accountant, hmm. Roy Fowler: Well, the studio at that point, the company was part of the Rank Organisation already? Andy Worker: Yeah, hmm. Roy Fowler: Ah hmm, so in terms of production finance there was no problem? Andy Wor[…]
[…] 300 films, including the majority of the output of the Rank Organisation, as well as later major international productions such as […]
[…]Giesler:Bit of a handicap for a director and actor I would have thought?Roy Fowler:Oh yes it was unbelievable this was all part of the reason why The Rank Organisation took a crash because I have a very fond regard for J Arthur Rank he did make an effort to establish a British film industry with an […]
[…]nbsp;came I served in Italy and came back again after the war I joined the rank organisation. So as much as to Lord Archibald at that time if I had no[…]
[…]hey wouldn't let us out. We'd met some Naval [fouring???] captain by this time, who was sort of organising things for us, and we couldn't really pull rank on that! I mean, this chap was quite young, and I was only about twenty one or twenty two, or something, at this stage. And, um, eventually, we j[…]
[…]o I stayed here and I was demobbed here. Manny Yospa: You were training other people? Geoff Conway: Yes instructing. Manny Yospa: What rank were you? Geoff Conway: Corporal. Dizzy heights. Acting sergeant it was but corporal. Manny Yospa: And then when you got demobbed, then[…]
[…] freelance or not, I don't know, but he'd...he'd got a rank as a Lieutenant. He was only a Subbie. And […]
[…]’re going in as liaison for us.” “Liaison to who?” I said. “Polish Air Force”. So, there I was, two thousand Poles and twenty-six Englishmen, highest rank Flight Lieutenant. All called each other by our first names. The paymaster came up to me one day and said “Look here, you’ve got to collect some […]
[…]os Angeles where a friend put me up and I met this man called Bill Burnside who was Alexander Korda’s representative in Hollywood. And also for Rank organisation. He was to sell English films during the war and shortly after.NA: He was like a sales agent?00.12.13CL : He was a top publicity sal[…]
