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Lust For A Vampire
''Lust for a Vampire'', also known as ''Love for a Vampire'' or ''To Love a Vampire'' (the latter title was the one used on American television), is a 1971 British Hammer Horror film directed by Jimmy Sangster, starring Ralph Bates, Barbara Jefford, Suzanna Leigh, Michael Johnson, and Yutte Stensgaard. It was given an ''R'' rating in the United States for some violence, gore, strong adult content and nudity. It is the second film in the Karnstein Trilogy, loosely based on the 1872 Sheridan Le Fanu novella ''Carmilla''. It was preceded by ''The Vampire Lovers'' (1970) and followed by '' Twins of Evil'' (1971). The three films do not form a chronological development, but use the Karnstein family as the source of the vampiric threat and were somewhat daring for the time in explicitly depicting lesbian themes. Production of ''Lust for a Vampire'' began not long after the release of ''The Vampire Lovers''. The film has a cult following, although some Hammer Horror fans have ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Sangster
James Henry Kinmel Sangster (2 December 1927 – 19 August 2011) was a Welsh screenwriter and film director, best known for his work on the initial horror films made by Hammer Film Productions, including '' The Curse of Frankenstein'' (1957) and ''Dracula'' (1958). Early life The son of an estate agent, Sangster was born in Kimmel Bay, North Wales and was educated at Ewell Castle School in Surrey, and Llandaff Cathedral School in Cardiff. He began his film career, aged 16, as a clapper-boy. After service with the RAF, he worked as a third assistant director on Ealing Studios productions, then joined Exclusive Studios (later Hammer Films) in 1949. Career Sangster originally worked as a production assistant at Hammer Films, as well as being an assistant director, second unit director and production manager. After Hammer's success with '' The Quatermass Xperiment'', he was approached to write ''X the Unknown'', to which he replied "I'm not a writer. I'm a production mana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camp (style)
Camp is an Aesthetics, aesthetic and sensibility that regards something as appealing or amusing because of its heightened level of artifice, affectation and exaggeration, especially when there is also a playful or Irony, ironic element. ''Camp'' is historically associated with LGBTQ culture and especially gay men. Camp aesthetics disrupt modernism, modernist understandings of high art by inverting traditional aesthetic judgements of beauty, value, and taste, and inviting a different kind of aesthetic engagement. Camp art is distinct from but often confused with kitsch''.'' The American writer Susan Sontag emphasized its key elements as embracing frivolity, excess and artifice.'''' Art historian David Carrier notes that, despite these qualities, it is also subversive and political. ''Camp'' may be sophisticated, but subjects deemed ''camp'' may also be perceived as being dated, offensive or in Bad taste (aesthetics), bad taste.Babuscio (1993, 20), Feil (2005, 478), Morrill (1994 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirsten Lindholm
__NOTOC__ Kirsten Lindholm (born Kirsten Lindholm Andreassen; 1 September 1943) is a former model and a film actress known for her roles in Hammer horror movies, in which she first appeared as Kirsten Betts. She is now a yoga instructor and performer currently living in New Zealand and is now known as Elandra Kirsten Meredith and by the Sikh religious name Vikram Kaur Khalsa (). She was born in Odense, Denmark,Kirsten Lindholm at the . and was raised in New Zealand, where she won prizes for . While majoring in languages at |
Christopher Neame
Christopher Neame (born 12 September 1947) is an English actor who resides in the United States. UK career Neame's UK film credits include appearances in two Hammer Film Productions, Hammer Horror films: ''Lust for a Vampire'' (1971) and ''Dracula AD 1972'' (1972). He also appeared in ''No Blade of Grass (film), No Blade of Grass'' (1970). He appeared in ''The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (TV series), The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes'' as Sydney Wing in the episode entitled "The Secret of the Magnifique". In 1975 he played Kaiser Wilhelm II in the ITV 13-part drama series, ''Edward the Seventh''. He was featured in two BBC dramas dealing with the Second World War: as Lieutenant Dick Player in ''Colditz (1972 TV series), Colditz'' (1972–74), and as Flight Lieutenant John Curtis in the first season of the World War II drama, ''Secret Army (TV series), Secret Army'' (1977). In between those, in the TV film ''A Point in Time'' (1973)he appeared nudeon the small screen. Neame played ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Melford
John Kenneth George Melford Smith (5 September 1899 – 22 October 1972) was a British stage, film and television actor. Biography Melford was the younger brother of screenwriter and film director Austin Melford. On stage from the age of 12, Melford made his film debut in 1931. As well as appearing in various films and television shows, he also played Menelaus in the ''Doctor Who'' story '' The Myth Makers''. He appeared in ''Danger Man'' (1960) as Caldwell in "The Lonely Chair". His daughter Jill Melford was an actress. Selected filmography * '' The Sport of Kings'' (1931) - Sir Reginald Toothill * ''Night of the Garter'' (1933) - Kenneth Warwick * ''Department Store'' (1935) - Bob Burge Goodman * '' Look Up and Laugh'' (1935) - Journalist * '' Honeymoon for Three'' (1935) - Raymond Dirk * '' Birds of a Feather'' (1936) - Rudolph * '' Find the Lady'' (1936) - Schemer Doyle * '' If I Were Rich'' (1936) - Albert Mott * ''Luck of the Turf'' (1936) - Sid Smith * '' Radio Love ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erik Chitty
Erik Chitty (8 July 1907 – 22 July 1977) was an English stage, film and television actor. Early life Chitty was the son of a flour miller, Frederick Walter Chitty and his wife Ethel Elsie Assistance née Franklin; they married in 1902. He attended Dover College and Jesus College, Cambridge, where he was one of the founders of the Cambridge University Mummers, before training at RADA and becoming a professional actor. He then ran his own repertory company in Frinton-on-Sea. Personal life Chitty and former actress Hester Bevan married 1936, and they had two daughters and one son. He was also a keen genealogist. Television career Early television (1936–1939) Chitty was an early player in the fledgling BBC television output, which started in November 1936 until it was closed at the beginning of WWII. * ''Pyramus And Thisbe'', 23 July 1937, Snout *''Rosencrantz and Guildenstern'', 2 March 1938, Guildenstern *''Henry IV'' 22 March 1938, "Valet" *''The White Chateau'', 11 Novembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Cecil
Jonathan Hugh Gascoyne-Cecil (22 February 1939 – 22 September 2011), known as Jonathan Cecil, was an English actor. Early life Cecil was born on 22 February 1939,''Burke's Peerage'', vol. 3 (London: Burke's Peerage Limited, 2003), p. 3506 in Westminster, the son of Lord David Cecil and the grandson of the 4th Marquess of Salisbury. His other grandfather was the literary critic Sir Desmond MacCarthy. He was the great-grandson of the Conservative Prime Minister, the Marquess of Salisbury. Brought up in Oxford, where his father was Goldsmith Professor of English, Cecil was educated at Eton, where he played small parts in school plays, and at New College, Oxford, where he read modern languages, specialising in French, and continued with amateur acting in the Oxford University Dramatic Society. At Oxford, his friends included Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett. In a production of Ben Jonson's ''Bartholomew Fair'', he played a lunatic called Troubadour and a woman who sells pig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Healy (actor)
David Healy (May 15, 1929 – October 25, 1995) was an American actor who appeared in British and American television shows. Early life Healy was born in New York City to a Texan mother and an Australian father. Career Healy's television credits include voices for the Supermarionation series ''Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons'', ''Joe 90'' and ''The Secret Service'', as well as parts in ''UFO'', '' The Troubleshooters'', ''Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)'', ''Strange Report'', ''Dickens of London'', '' Space Precinct'', and ''Dallas''. He also starred as Dr. Watson opposite Ian Richardson's Sherlock Holmes in the 1983 TV film of '' The Sign of Four''. His big screen credits include '' The Double Man'' (1967), '' Only When I Larf'' (1968), ''Assignment K'' (1968), ''Isadora'' (1968), '' Patton'' (1970), '' Lust for a Vampire'' (1971), '' Madame Sin'' (1972), ''Embassy'' (1972), '' Endless Night'' (1972), '' Twilight's Last Gleaming'' (1977), '' Winterspelt'' (1979), ''Superg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judy Matheson
Judy Matheson (born 27 August 1945) is a British actress notable for her appearances in several horror films in the 1970s. She also appeared in many other films and television series. Career After drama school, Matheson began her career in 1967 with the Bristol Old Vic Theatre Company with which she toured the United States, including a season on Broadway, and Canada, followed by Europe and Israel, in three of Shakespeare's plays, the highlight of which was Sir Tyrone Guthrie's production of ''Measure for Measure''. In 1967, Matheson signed with the prestigious talent agency Hazel Malone Management. Her debut film '' The Chairman'' (The Most Dangerous Man in the World), starred Gregory Peck. She was chosen to star in the Spanish film '' The Exquisite Cadaver'' (''Las Crueles'') with Capucine, directed by Vicente Aranda, in 1969, which was showcased as the Spanish entry at the San Sebastian Film Festival. In 1970, she was invited to play Helen Mirren’s friend in John Gold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pippa Steel
Pippa Steel (15 April 1948, Flensburg, Germany – 29 May 1992) was a British actress best known for her roles in two Hammer horror films: ''The Vampire Lovers'' (1970) and '' Lust for a Vampire'' (1971). Also one appearance in TV series Public Eye (1971) Career Her other films included '' Stranger in the House'' (1967), '' Take a Girl Like You'' (1970) and '' Young Winston'' (1972). She was also active in television, making guest appearances in series such as '' Department S'', ''Z-Cars'', ''UFO'', '' Public Eye'', '' The Adventurer'' and ''Blake's 7'' (as Maja in the first episode, The Way Back). She also appeared in the 1986 BBC sitcom '' Dear John'' written by John Sullivan. She appeared in the pilot episode A Singular Man as Fay the AA counsellor. Death She died from cancer, aged 44, in 1992 in London, England England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Brennan (actor)
Michael Brennan (25 September 1912 – 29 June 1982) was an English film and television actor. Born in London, Brennan was married to actress Mary Hignett. He appeared in such films as ''Tom Brown's Schooldays'', ''Ivanhoe'', '' Thunderball'', '' Tom Jones'', '' The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders'' and '' Doomwatch''. On television, he made guest appearances on '' All Creatures Great and Small'' (which featured his wife) and ''Dixon of Dock Green''. Partial filmography *'' "Pimpernel" Smith'' (1941) - Camp Guard with Lantern (uncredited) *''They Made Me a Fugitive'' (1947) - Jim *'' Captain Boycott'' (1947) - Jim O'Rourke (uncredited) *'' Brighton Rock'' (1947) - Crabbe (uncredited) *'' Blanche Fury'' (1948) - Farmer *'' Escape'' (1948) - Truck Driver (uncredited) *'' My Brother's Keeper'' (1948) - Police Constable at Roadblock (uncredited) *''Noose'' (1948) - Ropey (uncredited) *'' Brass Monkey'' (1948) - Wilks *'' Cardboard Cavalier'' (1949) - Brother Barebones *'' For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvey Hall (actor)
Harvey Hall (27 June 1931 – 11 April 1997) was an English television and film actor. He appeared in many British television series and films, which include ''Danger Man'', ''Z-Cars'', ''The Masque of the Red Death'', '' Zulu'', ''No Hiding Place'', '' The Avengers'', ''Out of the Unknown'', ''The Champions'', ''The Vampire Lovers'', ''Lust for a Vampire'' and others. In the 1970s he worked as an English teacher at St John's School in Leatherhead and Charterhouse School in Godalming Godalming ( ) is a market town and civil parish in southwest Surrey, England, around southwest of central London. It is in the Borough of Waverley, at the confluence of the Rivers Wey and Ock. The civil parish covers and includes the settl ..., Surrey. He also produced and directed many plays. Acting credits References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hall, Harvey 1931 births 1997 deaths English male television actors People from St Columb Minor Schoolteachers from Surrey Male ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
