science fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ...
Freddie Francis
Frederick William Francis (22 December 1917 – 17 March 2007) was an English cinematographer and film director. He achieved his greatest successes as a cinematographer. He started his career with British films such as Jack Cardiff's '' Sons and ...
, and starring
Anne Heywood
Anne Heywood (born 11 December 1931) is a British retired film actress, who is best known for her Golden Globe-nominated performance in ''The Fox''.
Early life and career
Born as Violet Joan Pretty in 1931 to Harold and Edna E. ( Lowndes) Pre ...
and Peter van Eyck.''The Brain'' at allmovie.com /ref> A UK-West German co-production (also released as ''Ein Toter sucht seinen Mörder'')
''The Brain'' differs from earlier film versions of the
Curt Siodmak
Curt Siodmak (August 10, 1902 – September 2, 2000) was a German-American novelist and screenwriter. He is known for his work in the horror and science fiction film genres, with such films as '' The Wolf Man'' and '' Donovan's Brain'' (the l ...
1942 novel ''
Donovan's Brain
''Donovan's Brain'' is a 1942 science fiction novel by American writer Curt Siodmak.
The novel was an instant success and has been adapted to film three times. Since then the book has become something of a cult classic, with fans including Ste ...
'': in this adaptation, the dead man seeks his own murderer through contact with the doctor keeping his brain alive.
Cast
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Anne Heywood
Anne Heywood (born 11 December 1931) is a British retired film actress, who is best known for her Golden Globe-nominated performance in ''The Fox''.
Early life and career
Born as Violet Joan Pretty in 1931 to Harold and Edna E. ( Lowndes) Pre ...
Bernard Lee
John Bernard Lee (10 January 190816 January 1981) was an English actor, best known for his role as M in the first eleven Eon-produced James Bond films. Lee's film career spanned the years 1934 to 1979, though he had appeared on stage from ...
as Dr. Frank Shears
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Jeremy Spenser
Jeremy Spenser (born Jeremy John Dornhurst de Saram 16 July 1937) is a British actor who made his screen debut aged 11 in ''Anna Karenina'' (1948).
The following year he played in the black comedy ''Kind Hearts and Coronets'' as the young Loui ...
as Martin Holt
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Maxine Audley
Maxine Audley (29 April 1923 – 23 July 1992) was an English theatre and film actress. She made her professional stage debut in July 1940 at the Open Air Theatre. Audley performed with the Old Vic company and the Royal Shakespeare Company many ...
as Marion Fane
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Ellen Schwiers
Ellen Schwiers (11 June 1930 – 26 April 2019) was a German actress of stage, film, and television. She was featured in world premieres of plays by Dürrenmatt and Frisch at the Schauspielhaus Zürich, and appeared as Buhlschaft in '' Jed ...
as Ella
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Siegfried Lowitz
Siegfried Lowitz (22 September 1914 – 27 June 1999) was a German actor.
Born in Berlin, he played the Hauptkommissar ''Erwin Köster'' in the German television drama '' Der Alte''.
Prior to his tenure as Hauptkommissar, he played a killer ...
Jack MacGowran
John Joseph MacGowran (13 October 1918 – 30 January 1973) was an Irish actor, probably best known for his work with Samuel Beckett.
Stage career
MacGowran was born on 13 October 1918 in Dublin, and educated at Synge Street CBS. He establi ...
as Furber
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Miles Malleson
William Miles Malleson (25 May 1888 – 15 March 1969) was an English actor and dramatist, particularly remembered for his appearances in British comedy films of the 1930s to 1960s. Towards the end of his career he also appeared in cameo roles i ...
as Dr. Miller
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George A. Cooper
George Alphonsus Cooper (7 March 1925 – 16 November 2018)
was an English actor and voice artist. He died in November 2018 at the age of 93.
Early life
Cooper was born in Leeds, the son of William and Eleanor (née Dobson) Cooper. His father ...
as Thomas Gabler
* Victor Brooks as Farmer at Crash Site (uncredited)
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Allan Cuthbertson
Allan Darling Cuthbertson (7 April 1920 – 8 February 1988) was an Australian-born British actor. He was best known for playing stern-faced military officers in British films of the 1950s and 1960s.
Early life
Cuthbertson was born in Perth, ...
as Da Silva (uncredited)
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John Junkin
John Francis Junkin (29 January 1930 – 7 March 2006) was an English actor and scriptwriter who had a long career in radio, television and film, specialising in comedy.
Early life
Born in Ealing, Middlesex, the son of a policeman, he and h ...
as Frederick (uncredited)
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Bryan Pringle
Bryan Pringle (19 January 1935 – 15 May 2002) was an English character actor who appeared for several decades in television, film and theatre productions.
Life and career
Born in Glascote, Tamworth, Staffordshire, he was brought up in the ...
as Dance-Hall MC (uncredited)
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Patsy Rowlands
Patricia Amy Rowlands (19 January 1931 – 22 January 2005) was an English actress who is best remembered for her roles in the ''Carry On'' films series, as Betty Lewis in the ITV Thames sitcom '' Bless This House'', and as Alice Meredit ...
as Young Woman at Dance Hall (uncredited)
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Alister Williamson
Alister Williamson (17 June 1918 – 19 May 1999) was an Australian-born character actor, who appeared in many British films and television series of the 1960s and 1970s. A big, craggy-faced man, he would usually be found playing gruff police ins ...