[…]a Scene! Odeon Cinemas were also still represented in the suburbs with the Odeon’s at Byker and Gateshead as well as further afield in Sunderland and South Shields. ABC Cinemas’ flagship was the ABC Haymarket which had been initially commissioned by Dixon Scott’s family in 1933. It remain[…]
[…]Dickens, Charles Dickens and he used to adapt the books as plays. And he formed a group of players called the Dickensian Tabard Players, based in the Southwark area of Kennington, Southwark it was really I think. And they had rooms there where he used to rehearse these amateur performers doing Dicke[…]
[…]uring this period? It was fantastic. It was pub rock, and punk was starting, and that’s what interested me, and there was this enormous fight in South East London against the National Front, and we were part of that, er, and it was a hell of a political period and there was Lewisham and you kno[…]
[…]he Germans didn't have a chance. So I worked on lots of weekly programmes. One, for example, was called Kurt und Willi , and they're set in a sort of Southern German town.[Side 1, 18:48] NS: So this is in which language or many languages?DMW: In German.NS: Yeah, just one language.DMW: 18[…]
[…] or mice’? because we saw one or two in the lift. And while we were there, I can remember the day, Aubrey Singer and a nice gentleman who went to, to Southern, who was also in OBs.Yes, somebody Smith?Barclay Smith.Barclay Smith, mm.They joined while we were, we were there, I can remember Aubrey’s fi[…]
[…]y.RF: Unlimited hours.VG: Yes, oh another strange character was called Michael Carr, he was one of our big song writers here, he's dead now, he wrote South of the Border, he was song writer, and his real name was Maurice Beresford, and when we were making Innocents of Chicago, which was a gangster t[…]
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[…] as most people had got older. I had two bees in my bonnet at that time. I felt there wasn't enough reality in comedy and everything was based in the South East of England everything seemed to be London to south east and film was only used for taxi or car at edge of pavement character comes out rat […]
[…]rsal, we used to get the weather down from Jack, I forget who the weatherman was, and he would say, "As soon as I say 'in for some heavy winds in the southeast', when I say 'east', that's the change, you change telops to the next one." Sometimes he'd say it, it wouldn't work and... We used to hate i[…]
[…]u know which one it is.HF: Ah, there are a lot of them I have to say.McG: But the first one?HF: By sheer luck – again – all based on luck, a man from South America saw this cockney kid in a film one of the films at Elstree and he said “that is the boy we need for Champagne Charlie.” And the man was […]
