"[[w:Robert Hamer|[Robert] Hamer]] was an alcoholic. And Hal Chester, the little volatile American producer of School for Scoundrels, looked after him like a child. He picked him up in the morning and took him to the studio, he looked after him at lunchtime, he took him home at night. And everything was hunky dory. He was compos mentis and played well [until] the last fortnight of shooting. It was a night shoot outside the Camelia room ... [a]nd I got down there and he was stoned out of his mind. He was absolutely rolling around, couldn't do a thing. So I'm afraid he had to be removed, and the producer directed that night. Then after that, for the last three weeks, another director came in who never got a credit, a man called Cyril Frankel, who I was in the army with, strangely. He directed the last three weeks. Of course, you've always got to remember that everything is shot out of sequence so the last three weeks doesn't necessarily mean the last fifteen minutes of the film. You can't see the join."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Imported from EN Wikiquote
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ian_Carmichael
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Ian Carmichael
Ian Gillett Carmichael OBE (18 June 1920 – 5 February 2010) was an English film, stage, television and radio actor.
5 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Ian Carmichael →
Related Quotes
"[On the early end of a Broadway run] So I went over there and, I'm delighted to say, the play flopped [audience laugh…"
"Q: Who were your comedic or revue influences? IC: I adored Jack Buchanan and Fred Astaire. Cary Grant roles are ones …"
"He had great zest for life, and a lot of style - he belonged to an age of elegance."
"He had that love of life and love of people; he gathered people around him like other people gather butterflies or po…"
"I never really had any aspirations to be an actor when I was young. I wanted to play the piano in a bar, to be the ol…"
"If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besid…"
"I don't really know how to act, I kind of wanted to somehow make it real, and one of the ways I've always thought mak…"
"I knew in a flash Gary had something I should never have. It is something pure and he doesn't know it's there. In tru…"
"They can't censor the gleam in my eye."
"Hollywood is a goofy place. But I like it. It's the perfect mummers' home. If one weren't a little mad one wouldn't b…"