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		77	13
Assistant Art Director	Bob Bell	21 Mar 1918	6 Jun 2009	91	13
Assistant Director	David Munro	24 Oct 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		84	11
Editor	Peter Weatherley GBFE	1930	1 Sep 2015	85	15
Executive Producer	David Reid	1 Mar 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		80	1
James	Matthew Blakstad	13 Jul 1967		53	1
Laurie Morton	Barbara Kellerman	1 Mar 1949		71	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		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