Visitor from the Grave

A psychologically fragile woman accidentally kills an intruder who is about to hurt her. Her husband buries the body in the woods, but she continues to see the man in various places; this leads her to seek help from a psychic. Worse is to follow as she becomes the victim of a macabre plot.

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: 22 Nov 1980

Locations:

Great Hampden, Buckinghamshire – Penny and Harry’s house
High Street, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire – Penny sees Willoughby in the Range Rover
Packhorse Road, Gerrard’s Cross, Buckinghamshire – Penny sees an Indian poster in the travel agents

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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	Peter Sasdy	45	27 May 1935	27.05.1935		89	12		12
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	66	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	Marc Wilkinson	51	27 Jul 1929		8 Jan 2022	92	1		1
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 - as John Elder	https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/anthony-hinds/#	58	18 Sep 1922		30 Sep 2013	91	87	3	90
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
Charles	Stanley Lebor	46	24 Sep 1934		23 Nov 2014	80	1		1
Harry	Simon McCorkindale	28	12 Feb 1952		14 Oct 2010	58	1		1
Margaret	Mia Nadasi	36	15 Feb 1944	15.01.1944		80	2		2
Max	Gordon Reid	41	6 Sep 1939		26 Nov 2003	64		1	1
Penny	Kathryn Leigh-Scott	37	26 Jan 1943	26.01.1943		81	1		1
Richard/Gupta	Gareth Thomas	35	12 Feb 1945		13 Apr 2016	71	1	1	2

Footnotes

Peter Sasdy also directed Hammer’s early 1970’s horrors, Countess Dracula (1971), Hands of the Ripper (1971) and Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)

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