Charles Picken

[…]ctionists, David Bain, would become a staunch personal friend and will make several unanticipated “Guest Appearances” during this saga. .CHAPTER TWO -  THE ODEON YEARS 1968 - 1971 Part 1In the summer of 1968 I had been successful in my application to join as a management trainee with the R[…]

Philip Donnellan

[…]916, I ought to say that he was by that time a Second Lieutenant in the South Staffs, and they married.Now soon after they got married she discovered two things: one was that he was an Irishman and two that he came from a working class family in Staffordshire neither of which facts had evidently obt[…]

Paul Fox

[…]ff I went, and wrote to every single newspaper, well not every…I wrote to about a 100 newspapers in this country and some abroad, and there were only two favourable replies.  This was 1940…I:    6?R:    …6.  I was 21.  And the two favourable replies were […]

Anne V Coates

[…]on movies. So, I was able to stay. I mean as soon as I was there, people started offering me jobs there, and I never came back, I never came back for two years. Y es. In the meantime, Douglas, who I was by then divorced from but we were always good friends, said to me, ‘You must do up the hous[…]

Erwin Hillier

[…] mother came from Strasbourg, so it's quite international setup, mother being half French, half German, because Strasbourg always changed hands every two or three times in 100 years, depending who was on the father side, Viennese, which is the musical side with part family, and they lived in Vienna […]

Sydney Samuelson

[…]. I always used to think as a child “Well that’s not very good coming fifth, if you come first in England. ...”However, when you realise that perhaps two thousand young accountants take that exam I suppose to come fifth was quite good. So he must have been pretty brainy. His other brother Laurie Wyl[…]

John Ammonds

[…]3  O levels that's right. And, and got the metric because I got five credits in whatever. And I was doing the, what is now A Levels was the two year course I got through the first year, and I was doing English, Latin, History and French the four subjects and I got very bored with this and […]

Ronald Neame

[…]hich was in existence, even in those days. And it was sold out right for 70 pounds. My father photographed it directed it, and with the aid of one or two colleagues built the sets. And that was really the beginning. Roy Fowler  6:49  Do he sell all the rights in it? Ron[…]

David Robson

[…] to Enfield because my mother died when I was about two, two and a half, and my father was the […]
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