A married couple, lost in the woods, stumble across a creepy mansion and its inhabitants – an overly-kind old woman, and deadly wolf children that scour the countryside looking for victims.
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: 1 Nov 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 | Ken Baker | 23 | 23 | ||||||
Camera Operator | Neil Binney | 49 | Jun 1931 | 01.06.1931 | 93 | 17 | 10 | 27 | |
Casting Director | Eileen Garstka | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Continuity | Lorely Farley | 41 | Apr 1939 | 01.04.1939 | 85 | 23 | 23 | ||
Costume Supervisor | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/laura-nightingale/# | 35 | 35 | ||||||
Designer | Carolyn Scott | 23 | 23 | ||||||
Director | Tom Clegg | 46 | 16 Oct 1934 | 25 Jul 2016 | 81 | 2 | 2 | ||
Director of Photography | Frank Watts BSc | 51 | 13 Jun 1929 | 5 Mar 1994 | 64 | 16 | 16 | ||
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 | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/chris-barnes/# | 42 | 1938 | 5 Jun 2009 | 71 | 21 | 13 | 34 | |
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 | Daphne Volmer | 52 | 15 Aug 1928 | 11 Jan 2006 | 77 | 17 | 17 | ||
Make-up | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/eddie-knight/# | 55 | 14 Mar 1925 | 27 Aug 1996 | 71 | 31 | 31 | ||
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 | Murray Smith | 29 | 14 Jun 1940 | 28 Dec 2003 | 62 | 1 | 1 | ||
Sound Recordist | John Bramall | 57 | 18 Aug 1923 | 13 Jun 2000 | 76 | 23 | 23 | ||
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 | |
Andreas | Daniel Kipling | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Eloise | Sophie Kind | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Harry | Robert Urquhart | 59 | 16 Oct 1921 | 21 Mar 1995 | 73 | 2 | 2 | ||
Irenya | Natalie Payne | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Man at Airport | Alan Meacham | 51 | 14 May 1929 | 2 May 1998 | 68 | 5 | 5 | ||
Man at Airport | Bill Westley | 41 | 1939 | 01.01.1939 | 85 | 6 | 6 | ||
Mrs Ardoy | Diana Dors | 49 | 23 Oct 1931 | 4 May 1984 | 52 | 3 | 3 | ||
Sarah | Celia Gregory | 31 | 23 Sep 1949 | 8 Sep 2008 | 58 | 1 | 1 | ||
Small Boy | Daniel Payne | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Small Girl | Corinna Reardon | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Sophy | Victoria Wood | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Tibor | Adrian Mann | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Tom | Christopher Cazenove | 36 | 17 Dec 1943 | 7 Apr 2010 | 66 | 2 | 2 | ||
Werewolf Child | Jason Dors Lake | 11 | 11 Sep 1969 | 14 Sep 2019 | 50 | 1 | 1 | ||
Woodcutter | Jacob Witkin | 42 | 12 May 1938 | 31 Dec 2016 | 78 | 1 | 1 | ||
Young Boy | Matthew Dorman | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Young Girl | Wilhemina Green | 1 | 1 |
Footnotes
Robert Urquhart and Diana Dors both appeared for Hammer in the 1950’s. Robert in The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), and Diana in The Last Page (1952) and The Saint’s Return (1953).
The part of the Werewolf Child was played by Diana Dors’ and Alan Lake’s son Jason Does Lake. He died aged 50 on 14 September 2019, after a long battle with alcoholism.