[…]re, just the location. We were in India a 10ng time, it took a long time to get there. Osmond Borradaile was the cameraman. Geoffrery Boothby was the director. That was the whole unit. We didn't take sound or any actors. We went there to shoot all the battle scenes. They were big scale and to do a 1[…]
[…]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: […]
[…] do a broadcast from there once a week for the BBC. And one day, in the mornings this was - the […]
[…] the director's name? Oh...Marcel Varnel, this is Marcel Varnel the director. Bob Allen: Ah hmm. And the cameraman? Fred Tomlin: That's […]
[…] of course in those days boats were going through the Suez Canal so we did a lot of filming through […]
[…]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 […]
[…]..Alan Lawson: Was it Sandy McPherson?David Robson: No, it was - Jimmy Bell, Jimmy Bell. And we used to do a broadcast from there once a week for the BBC. And one day, in the mornings this was - the cleaners had to be dead quiet during the half an hour transmission - and there was a cue system. They[…]
[…]ack Limelight out at ABC Studios, Boreham Wood, I said any chance of getting the job of your stand in. He said you'11 have to go along to the casting director. He said I'll speak to him. He came back the next night and said go along and see somebody called Anderson, and this chap obviously didn't wa[…]
[…] out! As simple as that! It was sold to the BBC. Yes that's how that - she got fed-up with it! […]
[…]BC employment, if you so wish. After that, you can look around as opportunity occurs. There are very large number of staff postings internally in the BBC. In fact, most of the higher appointments are filled from their own staff. So if you get something which isn't ideal, there's no reason why you sh[…]
