{"id":6642,"date":"2017-05-04T13:12:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T13:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/?page_id=6642"},"modified":"2017-05-04T13:12:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T13:12:49","slug":"christopher-morahan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/christopher-morahan\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Morahan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bernie Newnham<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Scary Mr. Morahan \u2026<\/p>\n

Hugh Sheppard<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Why ‘Scary’?  <\/p>\n

Bernie Newnham<\/strong><\/h3>\n

He could be scary almost intimidating if something was going wrong.<\/p>\n

Hugh Sheppard<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Perhaps I was lucky to have fond memories of him as directing \u201cZ-Cars\u201d and occasional encounters since at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, where he and his wife, Anna Carteret, were regulars.  A memory of Judi Dench in the viewfinder as a jeans-clad tearaway breaking through a window circa.1963 was, I feel sure, under his direction, but the Genome \u201cZ-Cars\u201d list hasn’t confirmed that as yet… <\/p>\n

\u201cLast Word\u201d did some justice to his shared departure date with Tim Pigott-Smith 14\/04\/2017; the reprise is at: http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b08lk540<\/a><\/span><\/font><\/a>  And Tim’s last BBC words were at the end of \u201cDecline and Fall\u201d’s final episode  (not a vehicle of unalloyed enjoyment). <\/p>\n

David Brunt<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The Judi Dench episode of \u201cZ Cars\u201d was directed by Robin Midgley.  However Chris Morahan did direct her in John Hopkins\u2019 \u201cTalking to a Stranger\u201d four-part play in 1966.<\/p>\n

Dave Plowman<\/strong><\/h3>\n

That and the Nigel Barton plays are the few that stick in my mind from my early days in TV.<\/p>\n

Odd that these days you have to have lots of action and special FX to be memorable. Well, for 15 minutes or so. <\/p>\n

Roger Long<\/strong><\/h3>\n

I did a film with him, Judi Dench and Michael Williams, about schizophrenia, sensitive and delicately violent.<\/p>\n

We were plagued by hairs in the gate, probably  a faulty batch of stock or a dirty changing bag.<\/p>\n

Chris stood over the clapper loader when he was changing a mag in the bag: he fogged the roll because he was very nervous and a trainee –  that was almost borderline bullying.  However when the stock was recalled and replaced we had no more hairs.<\/p>\n

If you knew your job, he was terrifically supporting, we had a difficult noisy location, he was brilliant at pick ups he knew were obscured, to him film making was a vast jigsaw, if you knew his script you were home and dry.<\/p>\n

Ken Russell was a bully, he always picked on the weakest on the set.  Chris was a real Gent who did not suffer fools.  Judi and Michael were fab , we had the wrap party at their Sussex cottage<\/p>\n

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