Angela had two sons, both of whom became successful film-makers: Kevin Macdonald an Oscar-winning director whose work includes the documentaries One Day in September (1999), Touching the Void (2003) and Marley (2012), as well as feature films The Last King of Scotland (2006) and Black Sea (2014).

In 1952, Orme worked as production manager on the first full-length feature film made by Billy Graham in England, Souls in Conflict, directed by Dick Ross and Leonard Reeve, photographed by cinematographer Guy Green (Great Expectations (1946), Oliver Twist (1948)).

Orme also worked as production manager on Meines Vaters Pferde [de], a German film made partly in Ireland, directed by Gerhard Lamprecht and starring Curt Jurgens (The Spy Who Loved Me).

In 1968, Orme worked as a production supervisor on Inspector Clouseau, directed by Bud Yorkin, starring Alan Arkin, Frank Finlay and Delia Boccardo.

In 1969, Orme made the jump from production supervisor to associate producer to reunite with director Basil Dearden on The Assassination Bureau, edited by Teddy Darvas, photographed by cinematographer Geoffrey Unsworth and starring Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas and Curt Jurgens.

In 1971, Orme began working as associate producer on Deliverance (adapted from James Dickey's novel), directed by John Boorman, edited by Tom Priestley and starring Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty and Ronny Cox.

Deliverance was an inductee to the 2008 National Film Registry list;[1][2] which commented, "With dazzling visual flair, director John Boorman and cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond infuse James Dickey's novel with scenes of genuine terror and frantic struggles for survival battling river rapids — and in the process create a work rich with fascinating ambiguities about "civilized" values, urban-versus-backwoods culture, nature, and man's supposed taming of the environment.

[citation needed] In 1974, Orme began working as associate producer for United Artists on The Man with the Golden Gun, the ninth film in the James Bond series, directed by Guy Hamilton and starring Roger Moore, Christopher Lee and Britt Ekland.

In 1975, Orme worked as associate producer for 20th Century Fox on The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother, edited by Jim Clark, starring Gene Wilder (also writer and director), Madeleine Kahn, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise, Roy Kinnear and John Le Mesurier.

In the same year, Orme worked as associate producer on John Boorman's Exorcist II: The Heretic, edited by Tom Priestley, photographed by cinematographer William A. Fraker and starring Linda Blair, Louise Fletcher and Richard Burton.

The film was directed by Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy) and starred Richard Gere, Edward Woodward, Alice Krige and Cherie Lunghi.

He spent much of his early career with Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell and was involved in many of their famous productions like The Red Shoes and The Battle of the River Plate.

The last time I worked with him was on Khartoum way back in 1965 and I remember his stiff upper lip British reserve of being something of a comfort to a young and inexperienced second A.D. in the oppressive heat of Cairo.

Michael Powell, film director (on Orme from the second volume of his autobiography: Million-dollar Movie): "Charles Orme from the production office had been working for weeks on an elaborate cue board which was to be used to signal gun flashes, water splashes, drifting smoke, loud explosions, turning control towers and rocking bridges, as well as big bangs and flashes between the cameras and the actors.

I now broke it to him that he would have to work his panel himself because I was sending Syd to Montevideo, to mobilise the government, the police, the army, and ten thousand civilians to come down to the docks on a specified Saturday and Sunday.