Born Isleworth 28 Sep 1923 Ordinary family. Went Stowe school 17 office boy Knight Frank & Rutley at start of WW2. Inot Army 1943 1946. Newcastle University . 2nd Lieutenant. To Burma for 18 months in RA. Caught tropical fevers invalided home 1946. Joined Ealing Studios as runner 1946 to 1948. Talks about the film Whisky Galore on location in Scotland. Joined ACTT. Worked on Blue Lamp, Scott of the Antarctic. Explains Jack Cardiff's method of shooting. Promoted to 3rd Assistant Director on Passport to Pimlico. First Ealing Comedy.
Made redundant from Ealing by Michael Balcon. Joined Crown Film Unit. 1950 in Beaconsfield as Asst Director. Talks with meeting Lord Mountbatten at Festival of Britain.Relates working in Baghdad on King Feisal film 1953. Joined BBC as Studio Manager later Floor Manager 1954. Married 1959 to a BBC casting manager.Worked on variety of programmes. Women of Troy. Worked with Denis Vance & Chloe Gibson. Promoted to Assistant Producer. Directed World of Tim Frazer. All programmes were live on TV. Employed Director at ABC TV commercial TV. Started directing the Avengers. Was on first episode with Honor Blackman and suggested a black leather suit for her. Next series Jezebel Ex UK 1963. Freelance after ABC TV.. Back to BBC as a freelance on Z Cars 1964. Onto Coronation Street as Director at Granada. Talks of Summer Outing on locationwith Coronation Street Cast at Blue John mine in Derbyshire relating problems with time. Joined BBC as staff trainer of Production Assistants late 1960's. Instructed Esther Rantzen and Alan Yentob. Went to Kenya as Televison Adviser to Kenya TV for two years.First worked in colour in 1970's. Job with Scottish Television as Freelance Director on documentaries & drama. Went to Zambia to make documentary on the explorer David Livingstone. Most happy making documentaries.
