Eric Portman Biography
Eric Portman (13 July 1901, Akroydon, Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire - 7 December 1969, St Veep, Cornwall) was a distinguished English stage and film actor. He is probably best remembered for his roles in several films for Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger during the 1940s. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eric Portman , licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Eric Portman Movies
Eric Portman Quotes
Discussion on Changing Clothes in Crisis
Tom Earnshaw, Copilot in B for Bertie:
Now look here, what are we going to do about our clothes?
Frank Shelley - Observer:
Yes, we've got to get into civvies somehow.
John Glyn Haggard - Pilot in B for Bertie:
Well, what's George doing?
Sir George Corbett, Rear Gunner in B for Bertie: [Taking off his clothes]
I'm swimming.
John Glyn Haggard - Pilot in B for Bertie:
Where?
Sir George Corbett, Rear Gunner in B for Bertie:
In a canal.
John Glyn Haggard - Pilot in B for Bertie:
Well, how do you know there is one?
Sir George Corbett, Rear Gunner in B for Bertie:
There's always a canal in Holland. The next best thing to having civilian clothes is to have none. I'm going to be a swimming instructionist and spy off the land.
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