Hammer House of Horror Episode 4
Growing Pains
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
Storyline
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.
Crew
| Function | Credited | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | |
| Assistant Art Director | Richard Rooker | 1944 | 01.01.1944 | 77 | 13 | |
| Assistant Art Director | Bob Bell | 21 Mar 1918 | 6 Jun 2009 | 91 | 13 | |
| Assistant Director | David Munro | 24 Oct 1942 | 24.10.1942 | 78 | 4 | |
| Camera Operator | Rodney Anstiss | 1 Feb 1931 | 30 Jun 2011 | 80 | 5 | |
| Casting Director | Eileen Garstka | 13 | ||||
| Continuity | Marjorie Lavelly | 12 Apr 1921 | 22 Sep 2006 | 85 | 8 | |
| Costume Supervisor | Laura Nightingale | 35 | ||||
| Designer | Carolyn Scott | 23 | ||||
| Director | Francis Megahy | 18 Mar 1925 | 1 May 2020 | 95 | 4 | |
| Director of Photography | Norman Warwick BSc | 14 Jul 1920 | 26 Aug 1994 | 74 | 5 | |
| Dubbing Editor | Jack Night GBFE | 9 Aug 1930 | 7 Nov 1993 | 63 | 13 | |
| Dubbing Editor | Brian Tilling | 1929 | 19 Jan 2011 | 82 | 13 | |
| Dubbing Mixer | Otto Snel | 1937 | 01.01.1937 | 84 | 11 | |
| Editor | Peter Weatherley GBFE | 1930 | 1 Sep 2015 | 85 | 15 | |
| Executive Producer | David Reid | 1 Mar 1938 | 01.03.1938 | 83 | 13 | |
| Executive Producer | Brian Lawrence | 1920 | 2004 | 84 | 25 | |
| Gaffer | Steve Birtles | 12 Nov 1914 | 2003 | 89 | 13 | |
| Hairdresser | Betty Sherriff | 29 Sep 1925 | 2000 | 74 | 10 | |
| Make-up | Alan Brownie | 1923 | 21 Feb 2012 | 89 | 4 | |
| Music Composed by | John McCabe | 21 Apr 1939 | 13 Feb 2015 | 75 | 6 | |
| Music Editor | Maurice Durham | 23 Dec 1909 | 24 Jul 2002 | 92 | 12 | |
| Musical Supervisor | Philip Martell | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 103 | |
| Producer | Roy Skeggs | 1 Apr 1934 | 29 Dec 2018 | 84 | 45 | |
| Production Assistant | Mike Widd | 12 | ||||
| Production Assistant | Margaret Nicholas | 13 | ||||
| Production Manager | Ron Jackson | 34 | ||||
| Screenplay | Nicholas Palmer | 19 Oct 1937 | 6 May 1995 | 57 | 1 | |
| Sound Recordist | Stuart Edwards | 4 | ||||
| Special Effects | Ian Scoones | 20 Feb 1940 | 20 Jan 2010 | 69 | 13 | |
| Story Editor | Anthony Read | 21 Apr 1935 | 21 Nov 2015 | 80 | 14 |
Cast
| Character | Credited | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | |
| Charles Austin | Tariq Yunus | 16 Oct 1946 | 26 Aug 1994 | 47 | 1 | |
| Gravedigger | Geoffrey Beavers | 1941 | 01.01.1941 | 80 | 1 | |
| James | Matthew Blakstad | 13 Jul 1967 | 13.07.1967 | 53 | 1 | |
| Laurie Morton | Barbara Kellerman | 1 Mar 1949 | 01.03.1949 | 72 | 1 | |
| Marton | Daphne Anderson | 27 Apr 1922 | 15 Jan 2013 | 90 | 3 | |
| Mr Nugenko | Norman Beaton | 31 Oct 1934 | 13 Dec 1994 | 60 | 1 | |
| Nurse | Anna Simone Scott (Karin Scott) | 9 Apr 1957 | 09.04.1957 | 64 | 1 | |
| Terance Morton | Gary Bond | 7 Feb 1940 | 12 Oct 1995 | 55 | 1 | |
| William | Christopher Reilly | 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 1955, exactly one month after his one time partner, actor Jeremy Brett.
Details were complied viewing the Episode.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection