Horror movie actor Paul Toombes, famous for playing “Dr. Death,” suffers a nervous breakdown before going to England to do a TV series. Cast and crew members start dying the way characters did in Toombes’ old movies.
Production Details
An Amicus Production
Produced at Twickenham Film Studios
92 Mins
Stills from film
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Hammer Connections
Crew | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Hidden | Death | Age | Hammer Productions |
Chief Hairdresser | Helen Lennox | 1 | |||||
Chief Make-up Artist | George Blackler | 62 | 6 Mar 1912 | 30 Sep 1986 | 74 | 7 | |
Conductor | Douglas Gamley | 50 | 23 Sep 1924 | 5 Feb 1998 | 73 | 3 | |
Continuity | Lorna Selwyn | 66 | 31 Dec 1907 | 1 Jan 2002 | 94 | 4 | |
Make-Up Artist | George Blackler | 62 | 6 Mar 1912 | 30 Sep 1986 | 74 | 7 | |
Music | Douglas Gamley | 50 | 23 Sep 1924 | 5 Feb 1998 | 73 | 3 | |
Wardrobe Mistress | Dulcie Midwinter | 64 | 31 Dec 1909 | 1 Jan 1997 | 87 | 4 | |
Cast | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Hidden | Death | Age | Hammer Productions |
Alfred Peters | Ellis Dale | 44 | 4 May 1930 | 13 Oct 1991 | 61 | 1 | |
Elizabeth Peters | Linda Hayden | 21 | 19 Jan 1953 | 19.01.1953 | 71 | 2 | |
Faye Carstairs Flay | Adrienne Corri | 43 | 12 Nov 1930 | 13 Mar 2016 | 85 | 4 | |
Herbert Flay | Peter Cushing | 61 | 23 May 1913 | 11 Aug 1994 | 81 | 25 | |
Julia Wilson | Natasha Pyne | 28 | 9 Jul 1946 | 09.07.1946 | 77 | 1 | |
Psychiatrist | Peter Halliday | 50 | 1 Jun 1924 | 18 Feb 2012 | 87 | 1 | |
Reporter | Michael Craze | 31 | 29 Nov 1942 | 7 Dec 1998 | 56 | 1 |
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Footnotes
Peter Cushing dresses as Dracula, an in-joke reference: he frequently played Van Helsing in Hammer’s Dracula series.