[…]ame is Edward Aneurin Williams,which is the result of a certain part of me and being of Welsh origin.That I've been to an ad in Williams's, it's been two of Nigerians in Parliament, and no one is great in Ireland getting good health during my lifetime. And the other was my grandfather was an IBM sho[…]
[…] class. But she was a wonderful pianist; she changed to light music and jazz and was very successful with that. Before the war she had her own trio – two pianos and a singer – and they played at the Berkeley and the Savoy in London, all over the place. And that’s really how she earned her living; sh[…]
[…]that there were a number of pictures on the go the whole time. I think there was at that time...there was about 8 sound stages and there was at least two or three pictures on the go. And the First Assistants varied tremendously from the sort of doyen of them all, which we casually called Frank Mills[…]
[…]aded word because A I always like the sculpture and I took up sculpture at the very early age and I like to do things in three dimensions rather than two dimensions and but I found that I had to learn to draw properly to put my ideas on paper so other people could see them.SPEAKER: M5And your mother[…]
[…] the RCC became the Royal Air Force and so at that time my sister was two years old. Joan and we lived with. My grandmother. And it wasn't until fathe[…]
[…]director-WR: Well for some time – I was so young Les that I don’t really know – he almost took over Beaconsfield Studios, which we were living almost two or three miles away from, and she – when she wasn’t with him – I know one thing she did, she did two liners, two big liners, she did the nursery, […]
SIDE 1 INTERVIEWER: The date is the 6th of July, 1993. This [is] interview number two-seven-one, with Charles Smith. Right. Okay, when—when were you born, and what sort of childhood did you have, and what your parents were. CHARLES SMITH: Well, I was born in 1920, May, in Rugby in Warwicks[…]
[…]rgarten, which was the Froebel Institute, hard by Kensington Hall Gardens; Willingdon School, Putney, which enjoyed the distinction of two very distinguished pupils as they became in later life, Liddell Hart, the military historian, and Maurice Bowra no less, warden of Wadham, Ox[…]
[…]g up to the passage over the river. And number 12, although we left I left there before I was old enough to remember because we left there when I was two and a half or something like that. So I don't remember a thing about except that I know from conversations afterwards that the shop tower the Wate[…]
[…]p of a hat. I've even worked on films. I worked on a Jesse Matthew films when I think we started in the morning at eight or 830 and went right around two or three o'clock in the morning with no I mean, you've got you've got some sort of extra money so much for now, but it was very small, like five s[…]