Richard (Dickie) Best

[…]ally, but they all have their different characters.Nothing could be more different from Pinewood to Elstree, or Elstree toShepperton or Shepperton to Twickenham and the old ones like Lime Groveor Teddington or Islington or Walton. They all had a complete characterof their own, like people.Pinewood i[…]

Brian Marshall

[…]the people I work with were pioneers. And he was a pioneer, he was one of the first people who have started into sound recording and he had worked in Twickenham studios before the wall. Anyway, he unfortunately his company got into financial trouble and he lost the contract and it was taken over by […]

Peter Graham Scott

[…]ave money. They had no money on Paster Hall. They were shooting it partly in Highbury, on this set, and partly on this exterior set they had built at Twickenham studios, in the big stage there. But they were only having that for a week, and it had to be revamped also as another set. Erm..anyway, I d[…]

Tony Lawson

[…]ng called he who rides a tiger. And we will I went to work with John Pointer, the dubbing editor, Sound Editor, on that film, which was being made at Twickenham studios. And so that was my first sort of out into into the you explain what it did, being edited? Does? I could try. It's when the picture[…]

Joy Cuff (née Seddon)

[…] born in Liverpool because all my family's Liverpudlians but after the war, I was brought up in... well, they came down South and I was brought up in Twickenham I suppose. I went to my first school in Twickenham and then we moved to Banstead when I was about 8 and stayed there until I went to Epsom […]

Erica Masters

[…]ydney Samuelson: At Ealing?Erica Masters: No not at Ealing, no, this was after Ealing.Sydney Samuelson: That was at Elstree?Erica Masters: No, no, at Twickenham. Yes.Sydney Samuelson: Oh, I'm thinking of his television series at Elstree, OK...Erica Masters: And on the Robin Hood series.Sydney Samuel[…]

Monty Berman

[…]the businessAlan Lawson: How comeMonty Berman: Because I had an uncle who was in the business and I was very keen on the cinema and he got me ajob at Twickenham Film Studios as it was then with Julius HagenAlan Lawson: In what departmentMonty Berman: In the camera departmentAlan Lawson: And who was […]

Freddie Francis

[…] on until, then the thing started to split up and they weren’t retaining their units and so we went off to various things. And I was making a film at Twickenham, a Carol Reed film, The Stars Look Down, I think, about the miners. And I went home one Saturday and found that somebody had started a war.[…]
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