[…] to that I was destined to a career in the film industry. One of my father's patients was a Mr John Byers and he just happened to be head of sound at Shepperton Studios which in those days was called Sound City and it was not long before I was invited to look around. Of course he had a look round my[…]
[…]ever likes people who might have back troubles, ‘cos you can swing the lead easy and get the pension. [They laugh] I didn’t go.DB: Ah, okay. So, then Shepperton popped up.PM: Yeah. In fact, not going in the Army did me a lot of good, because it meant as a young lad I was available, whereas if I’d go[…]
[…] I, I really worked on myself, I hope I did, yes. Anyhow, so I worked, then I worked in studios, and then... No, then I got, then I landed in, in, in Shepperton, and there I was lucky, because Thornburn, you know the, the studio director, liked me, liked me. And he didn't mind my being pregnant all […]
[…]s a sea thing, Old BillRoy Fowler: Old Bones of the RiverMaurice Carter: Old Bones of the River was later. That was a late one because we wentover to Shepperton to make part of that, the river part. Then inbetween was anotherStevenson film which was a very good one, Owd Bob, Will Fyffe, and we made […]
[…]o far ahead.E.M. Smedley-Aston: I think I said to Mary, "I'm strictly pre-war." I mean I've got a host of stuff post-war with all the stuff with Shepperton and that sort of thing...no sorry that was pre- war. But it's very difficult to be, shall I say, not logical but controlled on this because[…]
[…]l there was no control over Gabby at all and 'London Town' again, there was no control over the American director. That was the first picture made at Shepperton after the war, 'London Town'. Roy Fowler: Was it? Ah...I thought it was at Pinewood but... Andy Worker: No it was at Shepperton, […]
[…]e pictures two or three times a week I certainly wanted to be in the film industry and had written all the usual letters to Rank and to Sound City at Shepperton, any names I could get that were appertaining to the film industry I had written a letter and got all the usual letters back again, 'Thank […]
[…]he is stupid at all. If I knew of anywhere to go I would go myself. So that did not go down well and I left MGM and we went to join Herbert Wilcox at Shepperton to work on his next film The Lady with the Lamp, again with Anna Neagle. But MGM management had been in touch with the management at Sheppe[…]
