Gordon McCallum

[…]a what I wanted to do. My father had been a clothing designer, working successfully in America and also with a couple of important people in this country, and he naturally thought that his three sons would all become clothing designers...needless to say, none of us did! So I was not really prepared […]

Chris Kelly

[…]lin days where they were just where they met. And Eddie had a feet, three foot out three sisters and two brothers. And they were all in the film industry as well. They all worked either as actresses for the most part, also, the youngest was a child star. And then when the industry when he got to an […]

Clyde Jeavons

[…]iche magazine in London.”Nursing Times or whatever – in my case The Financial World. And that will be a much, much easier stepping stone to try for journalism. And before that I’d wanted to be in the theatre. Originally as an actor, but I soon discovered at1university that I was about thre[…]

Simon Rose

[…]led forgotten faces. And it was about the uprising against the against Russia in Budapest, I think, in the 1950s was the first of the of those people trying to break away from the Soviet bloc. And it was about the Soviet repression of that uprising. It was a very moving and very realistic portrayal.[…]

Maurice Carter

[…]th Alfred JungeMaurice Carter: He was assistant to Alfred Junge on films like xxxRoy Fowler: Although trained as an architect he was in the film industryMaurice Carter: He was a draughtsman, and the need was for / draftsmenRoy Fowler: Did you later have any connection with JungeUp Maurice Carter: Ye[…]

Douglas Slocombe

[…]tual film of any kind you did a healing.Speaker 3  8:11  The first thing is, yes, the first thing I think I ever did there was, let me just try and think, I think there's a thing called Find, fix and strike. Oh yes, which was about the feet Air Arm, well suitably. And as it turns out, yes.[…]

Bessie Bond (née Span)

[…]ught up, for some period, on Parish Relief and my mother eventually, well she had to work, and she laterally - she went out with a pack, you know, to try and sell things. She wanted to be available when wecame from school and so on and that’s how she tried to earn a living. I never remember her[…]

Norman Spencer

[…]an, tell us about your parents and your childhood. And when you first went saw a movie and where he was, went to school and how you got into the industry.Norman Spencer  0:42  Well, I was born in 1914. And I was born in Stockwell, which is near Brixton, but I don't remember any of it becau[…]

John Daly

[…] of like brookstreet Bureau or something, and said thatUnknown Speaker  1:51  I asked him if they had any sort of openings in the film industry and jobs in the film industry. I said, Well, we've there is a there is a vacancy, visit news,Unknown Speaker  2:01  inaction. And they w[…]

Michael Houldey

[…]f leader, I should say, of a young British film Mater's. And he'd been an actor for a long, long time. So I thought maybe that's what I need to do to try and make it as an actor, and then move over into directing. So I wrote to brown Forbes. And to my surprise, he replied, and he replied, very warml[…]
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