Denis Forman(1917-2013)

He lost a leg at the Battle of Monte Cassino in Italy in WWII.

[on Rank executive John Davis] He had very bad relations with his employees. Very few people had a good word to say for him. They spoke ill of him when they worked for him and they spoke worse after they'd been fired, which was a frequent recurrence. The film industry - and indeed later the television industry - was peopled by ex-Rank executives who'd been fired by John Davis.