Bill Cotton

[…]ent over the border they made you sign a document and in it is written I do solemnly swear that I will not attempt to overthrow the government of the United States, to which Gilbert wrote, sole purpose of visit, and was not allowed in. I always thought it was a marvellous Gilbert. But Tom was with h[…]

John Halas

[…]e Cold War and I would call all these films almost Cold War films, because you had to change Animal Farm so it fitted a certain requirements from the United States of America. Larkins were involved in a film called Without Fear that Philip Stapp was involved in, so this was very much a kind of Ameri[…]

Ena Baga

[…]his name? he was the entrepreneur for the Albert Hall, he married the Australian pianist.... Oh! what was her name? H was there, Matsala, the boss of United Artists, he came up with us our manager, who was the manager of the Tivoli at the time, and a lot of well-known people came up with us, because[…]

Cyril Howard

[…]just dwell on Denham because it was a favourite place of mine. It was then let variously let to the United States Airforce, the Rank Organisation owned it and we eventually  sold it      &nb[…]

Philip Leacock

[…]iversal has a huge back lot and you can do a lot with it with a good Art Director, which we had. And...no, you notice it a bit. There's a rumour that United Artists, who never wanted to make it anyway, that they had destroyed the negative. But I've got a 16mm copy which I bought from them. They woul[…]

Peter Suschitzky

[…]n America and then I wanted to get studio experience because I didn’t want to work on films which depended entirely on reality, so I came back to the United Kingdom and, forgive me if I digress at all, but my first movie was really quite… due to my photography because a director who was making a fil[…]

Stanley Watkins

[…]would keep, we'd keep out of Germany and the German speaking countries and some other countries, I forget which now and we they would keep out of the United States and England and some other countries. I don't know what it was. So I never did anything in Germany, except I did go there and. And had a[…]

Interview

[…]ucer. He was loved by his crew. He was incredible man, and very generous in spirit, everyone you can think of. But we were in Corfu, and the whole of United Artists hierarchy, argue under their umbrellas on the beach, when I was doing the dune buggy scene. And these dune buggies were hopelessly coul[…]

Penny Woolcock

[…]servative, stifling, expatriate community because not many people are aware of it, but there was a massive amount of emigration from all parts of the United Kingdom to Argentina. From the middle of the 19th century to the early 20th century, there was 60,000 people in Buenos Aires who spoke English […]

Neville Wortman

[…]en he went and joined John French who was on the Daily Express.  So, he was with David Bailey and Terry Donovan and he launched himself into the United States.  It’s just a question really of who you meet, what they say to you and whether you take the opportunity, of course, as you well kn[…]
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