Growing Pains

After the death of their son William Morton, the diplomat Laurie Morton and her husband, the scientist Terence Morton adopt a boy, James. From the moment James moves to Morton’s house in the country on, weird things happen with the family.

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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: 4th Oct 1980

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Cast & Crew

Cast & Crew – Verified complete

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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	37	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	Francis Meghay	45	18 Mar 1935		1 May 2020	85	4		4
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 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	65	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	John McCabe	41	21 Apr 1939		13 Feb 2015	75	6		6
Music Editor	Marcel Durham	60	21 Jun 1920		Apr 2000	79	13		13
Musical Supervisor	https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/philip-martell/#	72	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	Nicholas Palmer	42	19 Oct 1937		6 May 1995	57	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
Charles Austin	Tariq Yunus	33	16 Oct 1946		26 Aug 1994	47	1		1
Gravedigger	Geoffrey Beevers	39	15 Jan 1941	15.01.1941		83	1		1
James	Matthew Blakstad	13	13 Jul 1967	13.07.1967		57	1		1
Laurie Morton	Barbara Kellerman	30	30 Dec 1949	30.12.1949		74	1		1
Marton	Daphne Anderson	58	27 Apr 1922		15 Jan 2013	90	3		3
Mechanic	Michael Hughs	35	25 Jan 1945	25.01.1945		79	1		1
Mr Nugenko	Norman Beaton	45	31 Oct 1934		13 Dec 1994	60	1		1
Nurse	Anna Simone Scott	23	9 Apr 1957	9.04.1957		67	1		1
Terance Morton	Gary Bond	40	7 Feb 1940		11 Oct 1995	55	1		1
William	Christopher Reilly						1		1

Footnotes

Barbara Kellerman appeared with Vincent Price in “The Oblong Box” (1969).

Gary Bond played Private Cole in the 1964 film “Zulu”, he died in of AIDS in 1995, exactly one month after his one time partner, actor Jeremy Brett.

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