[…]t, most of my time at the BBC, was who somebody who at this time was just stopped being stage manager and was starting to be a director. And that was Robert Tronson, who is a well known drama director. Now, he did some of the first" Darling Buds of May" shows some of the early ones. And he's done a […]
[…], who was quite a character, he used to produce The American Band of the AEF, which was Glenn Miller and, and The Canadian Band of the AEF, which was Robert Farnon, and all those sort of things. And they used to have audiences for those shows, and I used to go bash on the door regularly asking for t[…]
[…]es.Speaker 2  13:10  Yes, you did all. You did all these sequences that I was connected. That's right, yes, yes,Speaker 3  13:17  Robert Heyman and Charles croyton and basil did and basil didn't hear their sequences. Yeah,Speaker 2  13:22  and that was, that was really […]
[…]mething. That's my memories of those days. And at the old BIP Studios we had people who went onto bigger things, the accountant behind the window was Robert Clark, and I used to have my cheques paid, he used to shove them through the window at me, and his assistant was Vaughan Dean, they were to go […]
[…]erwards was made into a film. I stayed at Santa Monica, I had a room in his apartment. And I worked for a very top American editor of the time called Robert Simpson who recently died who afterwards cut pictures like Grapes of Wrath and a whole lot of big pictures. And at that time he was j[…]
[…]nd his wallet had gone. [laughs] So I mean that’s what went on and that’s why I remember the name Wendell Willkie. You know it could have happened to Robert Donat and I’d have remembered because it was Robert Donat. I can see him now, bragging outside the pub [Does American drawl] “Your ‘re all wond[…]
[…]ng recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. The date is 1st May 1991 and we’re at the flat of John and Daphne Shadwell in Paddington and Roberto Champredanc [ph], this is your life![laughter]Daphne Shadwell, long time radio and television practitioner. Daphne, starting at the beginning&[…]
[…] do during the War years?SC : At the beginning of the war – just before it broke out — I worked on a couple of reels of 'Jamaica Inn'. The editor was Robert Hamer and I was called in because they were in a rush to get it out. I didn't get a credit on it. I'd worked on a couple of films with Erich Po[…]
[…] John HustonCB: Was it?I: Yes, I know he was here at some point in the thirties. He was a bit of a bum, you know in the thirtiesCB: Oh dearI: Yeah... Robert Douglas another name I’m familiar with Miles Mander...CB: Well, Robert Douglas went to Hollywood and became a directorI: Did he?CB: He wasn’t a[…]
[…]u in this room full of equipment I and my uncle John monk who had been known before the wars. John Goldman when he edited film for Michael Balkan and Robert authority called Man of Aaron just before we go on to Pinewood visit where did you go to school.SPEAKER: M5You didn't tell us about your school[…]
