It wasn't that Bruce was a dirty old director.

"The old red directors will never be able to get these industries back on their feet."

Jack liked to think of himself as the kindly old director.

The 51 year old, Hollywood director, however, passed away in May 2012.

All night sessions were obviously something the old director was finding increasingly difficult to manage.

The old directors before you, they knew that, oh yes.

It will continue to pay him just as well, even though he has given up his chairman's gavel and become a plain old director.

For the first time ever she saw real anger on the old director's gentle face.

The young people who go to the theaters these days did not live through the same past as the older directors.

This year the company, which had an £8.6m turnover in 1991, was sold off, but she still works for the old directors.