Thomas Hoving
April, 1967
It was with "negative conceit" that Britisher Bryan Forbes, after a 16-year internship as an actor and writer, decided to produce his own scripts and formed his own company, Beaver Films Ltd., in 1958: "I had written screenplays but they'd all been bowdlerized. I felt I couldn't do any worse--and I had a hankering to control my own destiny." The gamble was felicitous. Today the straight-talking 40-year-old London native--himself as industrious as any beaver--rides about in a...
