[…]ing films, then I got a certain amount of political smearing, John Armstrong took over that, I was then working on a Shell series called Look at Your World which was the world of Shell - I think they worked out the idea that they would have these films which they would show round the world which wou[…]
[…]had just Got a house in Dagenham, and so we moved into one house and then another. And I grew up in Dagenham with until the start of the first second world war. Nick Gilbey 1:13 Did your parents have any connection with the television film industry, Harry Coventry&nbs[…]
[…]p;would I like to be an assistant cum driver to Maurice Brockman [?] his name who was a New Yorker who was filming all around the world for the crew and doing all the publicity shots. And I said “yes, lovely.” So, I met up at London Airport. He brought ou[…]
[…]r what are they REO tango.SPEAKER: M5Something like what it was like that. It was like that and it was quite again a fascinating time. The variety of world was with you knob twiddling. Well I can't remember. They were Army blokes who'd been REME and doing it anyway and they I can't remember any of t[…]
[…]dio. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. But I think the last picture I did with Harry Waxman was I felt married to him actually . was Biggest Dog in the World. We did that. But Harry used to phone me at two o'clock in the morning after, you know, he's been thinking about what we did with this stu[…]
[…], I was not frightened of him because I knew that he's kind, you see, but the ordinary film maker, film technician don't know the David Leans of this world.You're saying he was very remote?He was remote.On the set?Y es.Yes, yes.He was definitely remote.35Was he close...He was, he was very polite, ve[…]
[…]time I have to say I was also, and I don't know why again, interested in theatre. I liked acting. I never really got very far with the Oxford Theatre world because it was highly competitive and I am not a particularly competitive person, not good at that. Anyway Lois who was the wife of Dermod Sutcl[…]
[…]e crowds were either coming in or going out of Chelsea football and we got stuck on that bridge, Stamford Bridge and couldn't move. And I thought the world is about to explode and I can't stop it because I'm stuck with these silly people. However, we eventually got up there and Jane, my wife, becaus[…]
[…]r, and Reg Groves, the journalist who she did things with, was it Documentary Newsletter? I'm a bit vague here... There were two magazines, there was World Film News and Documentary Newsletter, that he was editor of one... anyway, these are half memories. [00:17:43] So this was one year leading[…]
