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A programme from 1969 in which Alfred Hitchcock speaks to fellow director Bryan Forbes at the National Film Theatre in London, where he also answers questions from an audience of film enthusiasts. The conversation is intercut with scenes from Blackmail, The Lady Vanishes, Psycho, The Birds and Torn Curtain
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Film/Cinema
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Bryan Forbes
(Presenter)
Born:
July 22, 1927
in
London
Best Known For:
Being part of the British movie scene in the 1960s and 1970s.
Early-life:
Born John Theobald Clarke in London on July 22, 1927, he lived in West Ham until he was evacuated during the Second World War - first to Lincolnshire and then to Cornwall. Early success came when he became the question master of BBC radio series Juniors Brains Trust. It was for this series that he changed his name to Bryan Forbes. He went on to train as an actor at Rada before he was called-up to the army in 1943. After initial training, he joined the Army Theatre Unit.
Career:
Upon leaving the army in 1948, Forbes quickly landed a leading role in The Gathering Storm at St Martin's Theatre. He went on to play a number of supporting roles in films, including An Inspector Calls (1954) and The Colditz Story (1955), but he increasingly devoted his time to writing and directing. He wrote The Cockleshell Heroes (1955) and I Was Monty's Double (1958), and directed Whistle Down the Wind (1961), The L-Shaped Room (1962), and The Stepford Wives (1975). He was in charge of film production at Elstree Studios in the early 1970s and gave the greenlight to The Railway Children (1970), The Go-Between (1970) and On the Buses (1971). He served as president of the National Youth Theatre, Writers' Guild of Great Britain and the Beatrix Potter Society. He was also a successful novelist. He died on May 8, 2013 at the age of 86.
Quote:
"I may not have come up the hard way, but I have come up the whole way."
Trivia:
Forbes turned down the chance to direct the first James Bond movie, Dr No.
Alfred Hitchcock
(Contributor)
Tony Staveacre
(Producer)
