Search Results for: Suez 1956. BBC. Director. UN Media Peace Prize Certificate of Merit (1980)

[…] retarded of buildings. And of course later on I went to work because. The BBC. I think and probably asked you this just in case I haven't. But when d[…]

[…]n’t have the knowledge to argue, I mean I could argue about left and right but no way could I sort of say well that was a terrible performance to the director. Also directors actually in those days were really, they were far better trained technically than they are today, I mean they didn’t come on […]

[…]nd said, "Right, John, come back when you want to." And that, actually, was the kind of the ultimate in familyness. And I wouldn't have found that at BBC. I'm positive! Because one of my colleagues, ex-colleagues, unfortunately she had a bad relationship which went AWOL and, although we tried to sto[…]

[…] to a terrific start! That, it must be said, was due in large part to the fact that the audience, the local audience felt no affinity whatsoever with BBC. BBC Scotland. They didn't seem to think they catered for them in any way and then along comes this new kid on the block trying everything, giving[…]

[…]em myself I couldn’t have written better than them.  But, it was wonderful I was nominated as Actor of the Year.  It was quite a good year, 1956.  And at the end of 1956 I was hoping that I would get another job acting but that didn’t come along.  It just didn’t.  It is one […]

[…]y actually, you know, I would like to, you know, I like to doing it because I know I can do it better. And, you know, one, obviously, one helps every director. Ones with, to a certain extent. When one has a, you know, one's obviously bubbling over the idea. Someone tells an idea. So if one, you know[…]

[…]sp;you turning over you were saying about brown Mickey? Oh,Speaker 1  0:14  yes. Well, he, although he will, of course, I knew him from the BBC. Knew of him with BBC. I'd never met him, but he was a great friend of Margaret Harper Nelson's. So she rang me and said, do look after Brian. And[…]

[…]p of a lifetime really. When we went ashore at some of the ports we pulled up at, like Cairo and of course in those days boats were going through the Suez Canal so we did a lot of filming through the Suez Canal and then down to Karachi, Bombay, Colombo and across the ocean to Freemantle.Roy Fowler: […]

[…]e directors too had ideas on the subject...I mean, [some of the] more creative directors?Peggy Gick: Oh yes! Well you wanted to have a chat with your director...trouble is with some of them to get them to communicate.John Legard: And did you have your favourite lighting cameraman to do your work jus[…]

[…]l, Frank Sainsbury, john Taylor, all sorts of people in there, the dog and duck, which I used to go into a lot of time with my great friend, the film director. Micro law. Then there was the, the the winebar, and the Mandrake, and the gargoyle, and aerials, or the colony, Rome and the French BB and t[…]