[…]being dressed and I was horrified at having to be dressed in front of all these girls! [laughs]Rodney Giesler: Your father was nothing to do with the theatre?Dicky Leeman: No, no. He was a businessman.Rodney Giesler: So obviously there was some talent breaking out of you.Dicky Leeman: Well, my mothe[…]
[…]hool for Girls and that was during the war I think I must have gone to that school in 42, left there in 49 and went to the Central School of Art, did Theatre Design for three years there and Jeanetta Cochrane1 who of course has the theatre named after her now, the art school theatre. I was ther[…]
[…]at the beginning which as Alice was told was the right place to start. When were you born?EC: 1905.SC: And of course you were born very much into the theatre weren't you?EC: Absolutely.SC: Tell me a little about your father.Well my father was what they call a revolutionary. Oh, he had terrific theor[…]
[…] BIP Elstree and their temporary London office, the temporary RCA London office was in fact at Aldwych House just immediately adjacent to the Aldwych Theatre. And one of the senior men, by name Harold Sundy, I happened to meet and I found him a man of great interest, we seemed to have interests in c[…]
[…]nknown Speaker 2:13 managed to do that because my mother took a job as a secretary to I forgotten I know his name is Martin. And it was a theatre group before the still theatres and the mass empires. And she worked for him to enable better to go to to the Royal Academy. And also I was I […]
[…] of theatreland, which I'd always been obsessed by - the theatre. Don't ask why, I don't know. But I was. […]
[…] he went to Pinewood where he became Chief projectionist at Theatre Three, and later for many years was the Chief […]
[…]ess if she could be allowed to train the prefects, we used the read the lesson in the morning and she, the headmistress thoroughly disapproved of the theatre. We had a cinema quite nearby the high school that I went to and we were firmly told that we were never to look at the stills outside the thea[…]
[…]Colonel Blimp'] and 'Stairway to Heaven' - as it was finally called, 'A Matter of Life and Death'. I started that and I was hoiked off to go into the theatre as an assistant to Desmond Dew in the middle of that picture and subsequently we dubbed that picture together for Mickey, so that I was with M[…]
