A worker in a hospital mortuary becomes convinced that a conspiracy of evil has chosen him as the devil’s disciple. Those around him remain sceptical, believing that his rantings are a sign of insanity rather than a desperate cry for help from an innocent soul marked for Satan.
Production Details
Jack Gill Presents “Hammer House of Horror” Copyright MCMLXXX
Chips Productions Limited. All Rights Reserved
The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used herin are fictitious and any similarity to the name, character or history of any person is entirely co-incidental.
A Jack Gill Presentation for Chips Productions Ltd.
A Cinema Arts International Production in association with Hammer Films for ITC Entertainment – An OCC company.
UK Transmission Date: 6 Dec 1980
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Cast & Crew
Cast & Crew – Verified complete
Red = Uncredited
Crew | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | Uncredited | Total Hammer | |
Assistant Art Director | Bob Bell | 62 | 21 Mar 1918 | 6 Jun 2009 | 91 | 13 | 13 | ||
Assistant Art Director | Richard Rooker | 36 | 1944 | 01.01.1944 | 80 | 13 | 13 | ||
Assistant Director | David Munro | 38 | 24 Oct 1942 | 24.10.1942 | 82 | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
Camera Operator | Chic (Rodney) Anstiss | 49 | 1 Feb 1931 | 30 Jun 2011 | 80 | 13 | 13 | ||
Casting Director | Eileen Garstka | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Continuity | Marjorie Lavelly | 59 | 12 Apr 1921 | 22 Sep 2006 | 85 | 8 | 8 | ||
Costume Supervisor | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/laura-nightingale/# | 35 | 35 | ||||||
Designer | Carolyn Scott | 23 | 23 | ||||||
Director | Don Leaver | 51 | 27 Sep 1929 | 13 Dec 2015 | 86 | 2 | 2 | ||
Director of Photography | Norman Warwick BSc | 60 | 14 Jul 1920 | 26 Aug 1994 | 74 | 5 | 5 | ||
Dubbing Editor | Bryan Tilling | 51 | 1929 | 19 Feb 2011 | 82 | 13 | 13 | ||
Dubbing Editor | Jack Knight | 50 | 9 Aug 1930 | 7 Nov 1993 | 63 | 15 | 15 | ||
Dubbing Editor | Peter Best | 7 | 7 | ||||||
Dubbing Mixer | Otto Snel | 42 | 7 Dec 1937 | 18 Dec 2022 | 85 | 11 | 4 | 15 | |
Editor | Peter Weatherley GBFE | 50 | 1930 | Sep 2015 | 85 | 15 | 15 | ||
Executive Producer | Brian Lawrence | 60 | 1920 | 2004 | 84 | 26 | 26 | ||
Executive Producer | David Reid | 42 | 1 Mar 1938 | 01.03.1938 | 86 | 13 | 13 | ||
Gaffer | Steve Birtles | 66 | 12 Nov 1914 | 2003 | 88 | 14 | 15 | 29 | |
Hairdresser | Betty Sherriff | 55 | 29 Sep 1925 | 2000 | 74 | 10 | 10 | ||
Make-up | Alan Brownie | 57 | 1923 | 21 Feb 2012 | 89 | 4 | 4 | ||
Music Composer | Paul Patterson | 33 | 15 Jun 1947 | 15.06.1947 | 77 | 8 | 8 | ||
Music Editor | Marcel Durham | 60 | 21 Jun 1920 | Apr 2000 | 79 | 13 | 13 | ||
Musical Supervisor | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/philip-martell/# | 73 | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 104 | 1 | 105 | |
Presenter | Jack Gill | 61 | 1919 | 13 | 13 | ||||
Producer | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/roy-skeggs/# | 46 | Apr 1934 | 29 Dec 2018 | 84 | 45 | 2 | 47 | |
Production Assistant | Margaret Nicholas | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Production Assistant | Mike Widd | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Production Manager | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/ron-jackson/# | 45 | 1935 | 1993 | 58 | 34 | 1 | 35 | |
Production Runner | Callum McDougall | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Screenplay | Don Shaw | 46 | 1934 | 01.01.1934 | 90 | 1 | 1 | ||
Sound Recordist | Stuart Edwards | 4 | 4 | ||||||
Special Effects | Ian Scoones | 40 | 20 Feb 1940 | 20 Jan 2010 | 69 | 13 | 9 | 22 | |
Story Editor | Anthony Read | 45 | 21 Apr 1935 | 21 Nov 2015 | 80 | 14 | 14 | ||
Title Designer | Chris Wood | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Cast | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | Uncredited | Total Hammer | |
Dr Harris | Emrys James | 52 | 1 Sep 1928 | 5 Feb 1989 | 60 | 1 | 1 | ||
Dr Maunders | Conrad Phillips | 55 | 13 Apr 1925 | 13 Jan 2016 | 90 | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
Edyn | Peter McEnery | 40 | 21 Feb 1940 | 21.01.1940 | 84 | 1 | 1 | ||
Man in Street | John Clifford | 2 | 2 | ||||||
Markham | Peter Birrel | 45 | 19 Jul 1935 | 23 Jun 2004 | 68 | 1 | 1 | ||
Mrs Rord | Annie Dyson | 71 | 4 Jan 1909 | 10 Feb 1996 | 87 | 1 | 1 | ||
Policeman | Crispin Gillbard | 31 | 1949 | 21 Oct 2022 | 73 | 1 | 1 | ||
Priest | Anthony Brown | 51 | 8 May 1929 | 8.05.1929 | 95 | 1 | 1 | ||
Pritchard | James Curren | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Sampson | James Duggan | 29 Jan 2013 | 1 | 1 | |||||
Stella | Georgina Hale | 37 | 4 Aug 1943 | 4 Jan 2024 | 80 | 1 | 1 | ||
Steve | Andrew Bradford | 36 | 7 Sep 1944 | 7.09.1944 | 80 | 1 | 1 | ||
Surgeon | Peter Cartwright | 45 | 30 Aug 1935 | 18 Nov 2013 | 78 | 1 | 1 | ||
Undertaker | Roy Lansford | 52 | 25 Feb 1928 | 6 Feb 2009 | 80 | 4 | 4 |
Footnotes
Georgina Hale starred with Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reed in Ken Russell’s The Devils (1971)