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Post by harryfielder on Sept 1, 2008 21:20:14 GMT 10
Name: harryfielder Age: Location: Herts UK Gender: Male Referring members name?: Otherwise how did you find SS?: Google Fave horror past time: Movies Best horror genre: Zombies Paranormal Experiences: I worked on many horror movies Fave Music: Bee Gees Weird Talent: Additional Comments: I had a great working life working on over 800 film and tv productions.
See IMDB.
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Post by metalcherry on Sept 2, 2008 5:30:14 GMT 10
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Post by SoulSnake on Sept 2, 2008 9:46:05 GMT 10
Welcome harryfielder, sorry for the late welcome i have been away for the past couple of days. We hope to hear some of your stories about your movie & television projects. Sounds very interesting. |
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Post by aziam on Sept 2, 2008 12:56:56 GMT 10
Hi harryfielder, i would love to know what movies you worked on and what you actually did? |
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Post by harryfielder on Sept 2, 2008 15:41:30 GMT 10
Hiya guys, thanks for the welcome....
I worked from 1966-1998 in the biz as a bit player and all in the confines of the UK.
I got to work with the best in the biz...Hitchcock,,Spielberg,, etc and loved (nearly) every day I worked.
This was a fun job.... ;D
Night Breed 1990,,,Clive Barker.....Pinewood..
got called down to Pinewood studios for a day from a 1st A.D. who said he wanted me to do some business..
Wardrobe dress me as a lumberjack type person and I go onto the set..
All I’ve got to do is fire a shotgun at a very small man (stuntman) who is dressed and made up as the Devil. (This is a horror film) (Easy so far!)
I fire the gun into some bushes but miss the target. The director tells me to go forward and find the little devil.
All of a sudden this little man (stuntman) has me around the neck and slings me over his shoulder and onto the floor..
(I’ll have a quick word with the 1st A.D. as soon as I get my wind back)..
1st A.D.: "Sorry Aitch, I didn’t know he was going to do that, the director said he was only going to get you on the floor so he can slit your throat" (Nice, and me with my first grandson (Marc) only a few weeks old).
I said to him "You can’t go slinging granddads about it ain’t right"..
1st: "We’re paying £150 for the job". "Sling away".. I tell him..."but don’t cut my throat
too deep I wanna have a swift half of beer at lunchtime"…(I’m back)
Aitch (H)
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Post by SoulSnake on Sept 2, 2008 21:41:12 GMT 10
Well Aitch sounds like you did have a great job. I dunno about getting slung on the floor without expecting it though. Now that would of hurt! OUCH!
*edit*
Oh and did you get to meet Hitchcock and Spielberg? What were they like?
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Post by harryfielder on Sept 3, 2008 0:14:07 GMT 10
1972
FRENZY…Director…Alfred Hitchcock…
I am now working with the Master of filming.
Where I was born in Islington London, there was a huge warehouse type building on the corner of the Grand Union Canal in New North Road. (Very near the North Pole Pub)
It was in fact a film studio. As a kid in the forties I used to swim in the canal as it cost nothing entrance fee. (You had to watch out for the large Mocking birds floating on top of the water)
I think the studio was called Gainsborough and as a kid I remember strangely dressed people popping into the pub on the corner of New North Road and Elizabeth Avenue. (Supporting Artists of the past)
Anyway, that’s where Alfred Hitchcock made many of his films.
(I could have bumped into him while I was going swimming and he was popping in for a swift half. It’s a small world)
ONTO THE FILM…
I was now the not so proud owner of an old Bedford van and was booked by the 2nd A.D. on Frenzy to report to Covent Garden fruit market for the start of a weeks work...
There must have been fifty supporting artists working that week as market porters.
It was thirty years ago but some people still come to mind, like Big Mo Dunster who was stand/in on films for Donald Sutherland. Jimmy (the crow) Hammilton, Eddie Dillon And Bill (the body) Hemmings.
I remember the day that Donald Sutherland came down to speak to Mo about a private matter and got into one of the shots.(Everyone wants to be in a Hitchcock movie)
Mo has done well for himself and now lives in the U.S.A. looking after the Sutherland clan. Best wishes Mo, love Boysie.
Mr. Hitchcock was not very well while he was directing this film and would line up all the shots he wanted and leave the running around to his 1st A.D. (Colin Brewer, I think)
We filmed all around the market for the next week or so loading vans and unloading vans (Including my old Bedford) but I was more interested in watching the Master at work. Then near the end of the shoot in the market it happened.
The Master looked at me then at the 1st A.D. and said…
‘’Tell that man to climb up on that lorry and start unloading it’’
(‘’That man’’) he said my name, I was being directed by the great man himself.
We shot a lot of the inside of the film at Pinewood. Then some stuff with the Bedford Following a potato lorry up and down major roads and that was it.
I was sorry to see the end of the filming but it’s one film I will never forget.
If you’re looking down from that great studio in the sky Mr. Hitchcock ‘’That Man’’ will say hello when he gets there.
Aitch,
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Post by SoulSnake on Sept 3, 2008 2:01:49 GMT 10
Thanks for sharing that Aitch. I just visited your site and i do recognize you from some of the programs and you even got a part in Star Wars! Thats just way too cool. Please add any other stories you might have for us as they are very entertaining. Members wanting to visit Aitch's site click here! or to sign the Guestbook click here! |
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Post by Twanger on Sept 3, 2008 3:04:31 GMT 10
Welcome to SoulSnake, you sure have a massive amount of shows and movies you have been in. I love on the buses, did you ever meet Blakey?
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Post by harryfielder on Sept 3, 2008 5:17:23 GMT 10
Welcome to SoulSnake, you sure have a massive amount of shows and movies you have been in. I love on the buses, did you ever meet Blakey? Now 36 years ago I thought I looked the bees knees at the time ;D (not) but I did meet up with all the team and it was a good laugh. (Take no notice of the shirt and hair  img.photobucket.com/albums/v422/harryfielder/carry%20on/on_the_buses15.jpgAitch, |
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Post by SoulSnake on Sept 3, 2008 10:53:01 GMT 10
Lol, i guess back in those days it was the trend! I still watch On The Buses, Faulty Towers and love the 'Carry On' movies, all on pay TV here. What was your first part in film/TV?
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Post by harryfielder on Sept 3, 2008 16:55:59 GMT 10
Hiya Wayne, Back in the 50s I formed a small band and played for 8 years all around London. In 1966 during a gig some folks ask me if I'de like to do a couple of days work (2) on a tv show ''The Saint'' as an extra.. I did the two days and stayed in the biz for the next 32 years.  I've still got my Fender Strat. and am teaching two of my grandsons how to play.... img.photobucket.com/albums/v422/harryfielder/09January20032.jpgAitch, |
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Post by SoulSnake on Sept 3, 2008 20:46:46 GMT 10
Thats great! The Saint is another show i like. Did you actually meet Steven Spielberg? He would be my all time favourite film producer along side Steven King.
...And sorry about the double post on your guest book i'm not sure what happened there!
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Post by harryfielder on Sept 3, 2008 21:44:36 GMT 10
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK…Director Steven Spielberg…Elstree Studios… Cast Inc…Harrison Ford…Karen Allen… A great joy to watch Mr Spielberg at work.. The whole sequence was set out on storyboards. A master of his craft… There’s about twenty of the chaps dressed up as (It’s that word again) GERMAN’S. And it’s near the end of the film where the bad guys find The Ark and all us bad guys are going to get our just desserts. img.photobucket.com/albums/v422/harryfielder/aitch%201/HarryFielderasNazi.jpg(Aitch center) When The Ark is opened strange things start to happen and strong winds and sand are blown all over the set. Steven tells us to react to strange ghost like creatures coming out of the Ark. He’d point at us and shout above the noise of the wind, ‘’It’s coming for you now react, now it’s got you round the face, react to it.’’ George Lucas was standing next to Steven at times and seemed to be enjoying the action. Harrison and Karen were tied to a stake at the time so I couldn’t get any help from that quarter… Of course all the special effects are put onto screen months later as is most films these days… I read Steven Spielberg’s life story and he didn’t always have it easy. (Read it) And the last word on this tale must go to Harrison Ford’s stand/in… Jack (Chalky) Dearlove, who is still working for him…Hello Jack… Aitch, |
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Post by SoulSnake on Sept 4, 2008 9:37:08 GMT 10
That would be something, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg in the same room! Two masters of the game. Another great story Aitch |
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