[…]a conventional syllabus for, as it then was, School Certificate and Higher School Certificate. It was mainly a Merchant Navy College, but there was a Royal Navy stream and one took a special naval entrance exam. But at about the age of 16 as a precaution, they gave us all a medical and an eye test, […]
[…]e got to carry on. It's your chance now you go down there and get and I finished the film. I can't remember the name of it, and me had been one of my royal films. I know the American director. His name called Pratt, I think, or something like harmony big, he looked like a big gorilla, and he has dis[…]
[…]had no idea at that stage what this was about. What it came down to was I was being interviewed to see if I was suitable to do a film about the Royal Family, which turned out to be quite an epic. I remember Dick was there, Dick Cawston and Peter Bartlett, who was cameraman throughout the whole[…]
[…]ia because in fact the French are too mean to give it to you. But there we are. He was a Fellow of the British Film Institute; he was a Fellow of the Royal College of Art; he was an Honorary D Lit Sussex University and he was chairman of the various companies later in life that we'll come to. But le[…]
[…]ts historical as most peoples career were on the stage and there was only a limited amount of film roles. Whereas now I should imagine a lot of works television and some film and sort of, refrican...nican is all over sort of, Britain, is close down.I think they do need, I mean, they need to learn th[…]
[…] manage at any price and one of them is virulent royal blue, or anything like that that's a killer for […]
[…]he war, so he didn't actually go away to war. Though, I didn't see him very much because he stayed obviously around Woolwich in the London docks, the Royal Albert dock, and so on, doing the heavy engineering work. And we hadn't been bombed out of East Ham. We lived in what was relative country in th[…]
