Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini and James Galway is a two for one. I was hired to direct Galway Plays Mancini at the Barbican in London. The day started badly when the OB truck turned out to be too high to get to th…
Stories From The Front Line
Short pieces from people who were there — the industry as it was actually experienced.
Elmer Bernstein
Elmer Bernstein was hired to create the music for our film Gold starring Roger Moore. I went to Heathrow to pick him up for the music recording sessions due to start the next morning. Because I’d n…
Roy Budd
Roy Budd famously composed his best ever film score for my father’s production Get Carter. I liked him at this stage of his career when he was young and uncomplicated. He didn’t even practice his p…
Deep Purple
Deep Purple I met when making two films with and for them called Deep Purple Rises Over Japan and The Butterfly Ball which will be worth many anecdotes and a chapter or two in my memoirs. But the m…
Twiggy
I worked with Twiggy when she sang a sweet song for us at the Albert Hall when we made the film “The Butterfly Ball”. She was a delightful surprise more than holding her own on stage with a huge ar…
Mickey Rooney
This is what I wrote when Mickey Rooney died. Mickey Rooney died aged 93. I worked with him on two films, Rachel's Man as Line Producer and in a junior role on Pulp. He was funny, quirky, sometimes…
Maurice Jarre
Maurice Jarre was the man we brought in to compose the music for our film “Shout at the Devil” - it was a bit of an epic set in Africa so we were up for the huge orchestral score. We noticed that t…
Lee Marvin
Lee Marvin starred with Roger Moore in our film, "Shout at the Devil". He was a total professional whenever he was working despite his hell raising reputation. However, after a couple of months fil…
Orson Welles
I once spent a day with Orson Welles and my dad in our West End apartment as they discussed the possibility of Orson directing and starring in a new version of Treasure Island. My father was to pro…
