Bill Girdlestone

[…]s, you know, William Jury's company, who donated Glebelands, incidentally. And the first thing he did was send his son, Adolph, who became a newsreel cameraman to ask if I'd go and join him. And I bargained with him, I was getting a pound a week at Worton Hall and I managed to get him up to 35 bob, […]

Rodney Giesler

[…] wrote back and said yes, so I made my way to Iver Heath, to be met by his secretary at the gate, a lady called Josephine, who eventually married the cameraman Guy Green. She was charming and had been detailed to be my guide that day. We spent an hour on the set of Oliver Twist. Then she took me to […]

Daphne Shadwell

[…] he’d done quite a lot of television. I think mainly as an assistant, I don’t think he was a director.Daphne Shadwell DRAFT Page 53He was a cameraman, at WCAU in Philadelphia.DS: Was he? Was he? I never knew that. But I mean he was full of good ideas and of course they immediately put him […]

Kay Mander

[…]words to that effect! And they wanted an interpreter, a German interpreter - English-German interpreter - for Hans Schneeberger, who was the lighting cameraman on 'Conquest of the Air', (I can't remember who... Yes, that's right,...) and he had a focus puller called Karl Matthews. That's important b[…]

Harry Coventry

[…]four years. I prefer to take a job in outside broadcasts. And they said, well, the only job in outside broadcast for in operations is as an assistant cameraman or trainee cameraman, which I was delighted. The thought appealed to me. Nick Gilbey  39:32  Do you think your RAF […]

Geoff Hermges

[…]rs. And I ended up as still photographer for MGM, which was very fine, and Kane gave me a chance to work with or work around Bob Surtees, who was the cameraman, one of them Hollywood's best, and Gene Polito still in Hollywood, and I can't remember the names of the others, but a very fine crew, both […]

Alan Lawson

Alan Lawson, CameramanCopyright ACTT History ProjectSeptember 1987 Interviewer, Arthur Graham  Arthur Graham: Where and when were you born?Alan Lawson: I was born in Gidea Park, a suburb of Romford in July 1912, we moved to London 3 years later.Arthur Graham: Whereabouts?Alan Lawson: […]
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