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Billy Williams - Love at first sight (19/172)

1,280 views · Published 3 October 2017 · 1:35 · Indexed 22 September 2026

Channel: Web of Stories - Life Stories of Remarkable People · 2017 · Entertainment

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Born in London in 1929, cinematographer Billy Williams shot more than 40 high profile films throughout his career, being nominated for an Oscar for ‘On Golden Pond’ and ‘Women in Love’, then winning the Oscar for ‘Gandhi’ in 1983. He received an OBE in 2009. [Listener: Neil Binney]

TRANSCRIPT: Before… just before I became a cameraman I met Anne at a dance in Richmond and it was love at first sight, and we were to… we were courting in those days and I was going off quite a lot — away  — and I remember I was in Iraq on… for her 21st birthday. And then we married in 1957 and we have four daughters and four granddaughters, and three years ago we… we got a grandson. So, you know, I've been happily… very happily married during that period and that stability, my family life, I think has played a… a very important part in my career. As you know in our business it's… there have been very… there have been a lot of, you know, matrimonial break-ups, it's been… I think working in the film industry is… is a very testing… You're a long way from home. It's a very testing occupation because you… you're travelling a lot, it's very insecure; you don't know whether you're going to be working next month or not, and then if you are working you might be the other side of the world. So I think for our wives it's… it’s very difficult and I've… I’ve been really lucky that I met Anne.

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