Kay Mander

[…]ve to give active work, won't you?"Sidney Cole: How did you do your back in?Kay Mander: I don't know, I just did it. I got off the train at Walton on Thames station one day and I couldn't walk. And I came into the studios, they sat me on a stool, and I couldn't get off it, so they sent me home. And […]

Guido Coen

[…]say I don't want to hear about that, change the script, so I got once a script in which there was a lot of night shooting with police launches on the Thames and I said you're just wasting your time, he said well change the story, I said there is not even the beginning of a story for £13,000, well ch[…]

Ella Mallet

[…] the daughter is. Mrs Box, she's safely back in England, which I'm very glad. But - and living in the family house at [6, Astley Park Road] Walton-on-Thames!Roy Fowler : So there. They seem secure as a family then.Ella Mallett : Oh they're a great team. So then Glebelands started as I say, as you se[…]

Tom Peacock

[…]fella he was (but anyway that's his life story). But the film, it made quite a hit. And I think she made another one, cause Riverside is right by the Thames, as you know, and this was all about a bargee going up and down the water, you know. I had about six or seven years there...quite nice...under […]

Ted Candy

[…]as done on an expense account. So ISpeaker 1  1:09  quite agree that one of the comments, pardon me, you know, Hungerford bridge across the Thames, London, yes, well, one guy put in him for a taxi over hunger for good bridge. And the classical comment that was always made about expenses wa[…]

Bessie Bond (née Span)

[…] on and that we lived quite near the shop where his father had the shop and he said ‘well, I have got the book but I ammoving tomorrow to Kingston on Thames and it is buried in cases. Will I send it to you?’ And then he sort of said ‘What do you do?’ I said ‘well, I was a trade union organiser […]

Reginald (Reggie) Beck

[…]e, EMIp.7Wyn Ryder: Did you have a favourite studio?Reggie Beck: Denham.Wyn Ryder: Elstree worst of all?Reggie Beck: No Walton on ThamesWyn Ryder: Which is now a supermarketWyn Ryder: Then you worked with Robert Rossen on Islands in the Sun.Reggie Beck: Robert Ross[…]

Oswald (Ossie) Morris

[…]ing is that they're going to slowly. Put everything out a lot of it to out to independent production I know it's partly due to finances but I believe Thames are going more and more to freelance work and they seem to feel the quality gets a bit better that way. I mean that's all I can say. I'm sorry […]

Richard (Dickie) Best

[…]hink something had happened to the theatre but I can't remember why. Wedid go and dub them at Shepperton and we dubbed them at Teddington whichis now Thames Studios. He also shot 3 of them at Shepperton and finallymoved over to Pinewood when Pinewood opened. We moved to Pinewood on thevery first day[…]

Sidney Cole

[…]us being just an actor. But in point of fact not at all, he behaved just like any other reasonable actor. I always remember on the floor at Walton on Thames where we were shooting Harry Watt was directing but he was directing on the other unit and I wanted him to direct another episode and he said h[…]
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