[…] still look even at sections of it from time to time. This marvellous ensemble playing that they had. Most of the supporting cast were from the Abbey Theatre. That was the day I was launched in the direction of making films.. It was March 1947 that that happened. I completed my school course, and di[…]
[…]ilt up the distribution to such a degree that by 1958 we were hitting 1000 theatres a month which was over half the cinemas in the country. And this was&nb[…]
[…], Louis Armstrong and things, and this was a revelation to me. And also my early culture was the cinema. It really was the cinema. I didn't go to the theatre, I knew nothing about the poets or Shakespeare, they had been mentioned in my school vaguely, but none of the teachers could have taught, unde[…]
[…]ic. Western Electric was in France, Tobis Claimfilm I believe was in all the rest of Europe, Germany and all the Balkan countries. [19.54]The dubbing theatre used to work literally night and day. It was not unusual to have to work all night on the night before the premiere of a film and finish at fi[…]
[…]as a certain amount of opposition to the movies anyway because in those days they were rather frowned upon by the bourgeois.Roy Fowler: How about the theatre?Eddie Dryhurst: Pardon?Roy Fowler: Did your parents have any dealings with the theatre, did they enjoy going to that?Eddie Dryhurst: None at a[…]
[…] had. Most of the supporting cast were from the Abbey Theatre. That was the day I was launched in the […]
[…] into the service from the film industry and from the theatre. Hence Stephen Thomas, George More O’Farrell and myself, and […]
[…]t books and publishing and then they did another programme which Ken, Kenneth Tynan - who was then the er - working with -er- Observer as it’s - er - theatre critic.00:10:52He became editor of a program called ‘Temple’ - so - I was working for ‘Bookman’ and ‘Temple’ - which was really ex[…]
[…]lly is that my mother and father were not in the industry at all. My mother's brother met his future wife whilst working at the Leicester Square Theatre, which today is the Odeon West End, in the middle Fifties after he was demobbed from the Army.Interviewer: And at what stage did you deci[…]
