[…] playing a "biddy." And from then on I was an actor - a very bad one, by the way, I think - but I was an actor right up 'til I went into the army for World War One, when I was seventeen. Then I was in France for over a year, fighting Germans. Then I came back, and I had no profession. So I went on t[…]
[…]all that sort of thing - and I had to print the rushes. And one of the first jobs I did was to print the rushes for Griffith, who made 'Hearts of the World' partly there.Fowler/Lawson: That's at Worton Hall?Bill Girdlestone: No, that's at Twickenham, yes. When I was now at Twickenham, and […]
[…] actor right up 'til I went into the army for World War One, when I was seventeen. Then I was […]
[…] print the rushes for Griffith, who made 'Hearts of the World' partly there. Fowler/Lawson: That's at Worton Hall? Bill Girdlestone: […]
[…]t to the Grammar School there. In early 1945 we came back from there and did another year at Surbiton Grammar School and then out into the wide world which was by then, like every child that used to go to the pictures two or three times a week I certainly wanted to be in the film industry and […]
[…] late 1930s at Denham, Pinewood and Elstree. During the Second World War he worked with both Michael Powell and David […]
[…]rse I wasn't going to argue at that stage.Alan Lawson : Oh no. No, no.Gordon McCallum : And when that was done, we worked with Thorold on 'Men of Two Worlds', we dubbed that. And I think the next one must have been - was probably Mickey. I don't know, I can't remember now exactly, but Mickey came in[…]
[…]hter] Anyway I had to leave it at that but I think...Alan Lawson: Yes, who else was on the course?Leonard Harris: Oh er, Jimmy Carr.Alan Lawson: Yes, World Wide?Leonard Harris: World Wide, yes. Of course World Wide came afterwards.Alan Lawson: Oh yes, very much so! [Chuckles.]Leonard Harris: Yes. Le[…]
[…] course? Leonard Harris: Oh er, Jimmy Carr. Alan Lawson: Yes, World Wide? Leonard Harris: World Wide, yes. Of course World […]
[…]mes of the pictures were 'Happy' 'Wishes’ 'Freedom of the Seas' 'Lost in the Legion' ... Leslie Fuller 'Girls will be Boys', 'My Song Goes Around the World’, Sir Richard Tauber, 'The Old Curiosity Shop' and 'La Boheme'. That was with Douglas Fairbanks Jnr. Those are my immediate recollections of tha[…]
