Guardian of the Abyss

Michael Roberts joins his friend Laura Stephens at an auction and talks her out of selling her newly-acquired mirror to a mysterious man who seems excessively eager to have it. When Michael takes it from her to have it appraised, its occult powers put him in the path of Allison, who has just run away from a secret society that wants to sacrifice her in order to conjure up a powerful devil.
The head of this society is Charles Randolph, an evil hypnotist whom Michael will find extremely dangerous.

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 15 Nov 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	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 Sharpe	59	19 Apr 1921		14 Dec 2011	90	4	1	5
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	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	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	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/#	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	David Fisher	51	13 Apr 1929		10 Jan 2018	88	3		3
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
1st Girl	Sophie Thompson	18	20 Jan 1962	20.01.1962		62	1		1
2nd Girl	Sharon Fussey						1		1
Alison	Rosalyn Landor	22	7 Oct 1958	7.10.1958		66	2		2
Andrews	Paul Darrow	39	2 May 1941		3 Jun 2019	78	1		1
Auctioneer	Barry McDonald						1		1
Charles Randolf	John Carson	53	28 Feb 1927		5 Nov 2016	89	4		4
Laura	Barbara Ewing	41	14 Jan 1939	14.01.1939		85	1	1	2
Michael Roberts	Ray Lonnen	40	18 May 1940		11 Jul 2014	74	1		1
Tina	Caroline Langrishe	22	10 Jan 1958	10.01.1958		66	1		1

Footnotes

Rosalyn Landor’s first film was Hammer’s The Devil Rides Out (1968).

John Carson played Dr Marcus in Hammer’s Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974).

Sophie Thompson played the girlfriend in Torville & Mr Bean (1995).

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