[…]ards. (TIME 04:05) But my parents did not want me to go onto the stage on any account because of Uncle Charlie, they felt that was theatre. Of course, it wasn’t really theatre, it was variety and musical really. So, they were dead against it and they were hardworking l[…]
[…]e was a resurgence of the arts ‘cos everything had been very austere – still was austere, rationing was still going on. They were resurging the arts: theatre, ballet and Coppélia was a big iconic thing they were mounting, and so I worked on that for about three weeks, painting scenery, again as an a[…]
[…]terest in films or cinema?Unknown Speaker 2:45 school?Robert Angel 2:46 Yes, I always was interested from an early age in the theatre and in photography, and in films, not a film buff, but I just and living Gerrards cross, I suppose denim studios was built, Pinewood was openi[…]
[…]s private school. And when the headmistress retired, and the school closed, I was casting about for what to do next. And that was when I began in the theatre. And very soon afterwards started my career in the BBC. Joyce Robinson 2:39 Well, well, so this is this when […]
[…]her was my family background. And she was completely supportive. All the way through. I was remember when I did my very first job at the city writers Theatre in Leeds. It was strippers and I was bottom of the barrel. My very first job very nervous. So no decent woman would be seen in that theatre. I[…]
[…] that set up an enormous amount of problems. The brother I was closest to who was called Felix, was an actor and so I thought I'd want to go into the theatre, and I hero-worshipped him, he was the middle of the elder three. And he was killed in the war, in the Lancasters, and that was - that is a pa[…]
[…]d to go with him and I had to stain the insides of the pipes, the stems, and of course it was piecework. And he was the one that introduced me to the theatre. Talking to him like, I would look on him like my dad see. And he's talking to me and he said, "Where do you go at night?" And I said, "Well I[…]
